ALL-OPTICAL BISTABLE SWITCHING AND SIGNAL REGENERATION IN A SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERED DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK FABRY-PEROT STRUCTURE/

Authors
HE J CADA M DUPERTUIS MA MARTIN D MORIERGENOUD F ROLLAND C SPRINGTHORPE AJ
Citation
J. He et al., ALL-OPTICAL BISTABLE SWITCHING AND SIGNAL REGENERATION IN A SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERED DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK FABRY-PEROT STRUCTURE/, Applied physics letters, 63(7), 1993, pp. 866-868
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
63
Issue
7
Year of publication
1993
Pages
866 - 868
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1993)63:7<866:ABSASR>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
We report the experimental observation of optical bistable switching i n a combined distributed-feedback/Fabry-Perot structure. The sample ha d a high switching contrast with almost zero reflectivity in the on-st ate. A turnoff time as short as 4 ns was measured. The threshold power for bistability was about 2 mW. Bistable switching with the memory ef fect and a potential application for all-optical signal regeneration w ere demonstrated.