Competition between modulational instability and switching in optical bistability
Optics Letters, Vol. 24, Issue 2, pp. 80-82 (1999)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.24.000080
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Abstract
We study theoretically and experimentally the switching dynamics of a nonlinear optical bistable system that exhibits modulational instability in the vicinity of its lower limit point. We show that modulational instability induces premature upswitching and, in this way, truncates the bistable cycle. The role of the modulation instability is identified experimentally through the observation of the transient pattern formation that precedes upswitching. Our experiment illustrates the importance of cooperative behavior in practical distributed bistable systems.
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OCIS Codes
(140.4780) Lasers and laser optics : Optical resonators
(190.1450) Nonlinear optics : Bistability
(190.3100) Nonlinear optics : Instabilities and chaos
(190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing
Citation
Stèphane Coen and Marc Haelterman, "Competition between modulational instability and switching in optical bistability," Opt. Lett. 24, 80-82 (1999)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-24-2-80
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