Optical Bistability III: Proceedings of the Topical Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, Dezember 2–4, 1985

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Optical Bistability and the Digital Optical Computers....Pages 2-3
Nonlinear Optical Associative Memories....Pages 4-7
Demonstration of a Triple Bistable-Element Loop Circuit for a Digital Parallel All-Optical Computer....Pages 8-11
All-Optical Computing — Circuit and Component Designs....Pages 12-15
Threshold Device Tolerance Requirements in Digital Optical Computers....Pages 16-20
Where Conventional Computing Will Be Ten Years from Now....Pages 21-21
The European Joint Optical Bistability Project....Pages 22-25
Optical Circuitry Cooperative (OCC)....Pages 26-27
Criteria for Polarized Optical Bistability....Pages 28-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Pulsed Optical Logic in GaAs Etalons....Pages 32-34
Cascaded Bistable Optical Devices Based on Two-Photon Absorption in Room Temperature InSb....Pages 35-38
Fabrication and Characterization of Arrays of GaAs All-Optical Logic Gates....Pages 39-41
An Ultrafast GaAs All-Optical Logic Gate....Pages 42-44
White Light Switching of Visible Nonlinear Interference Filters and Its Implications for the Design of a Spatial Light Modulator....Pages 45-48
Gain-Bandwidth Product of an InSb Transphasor....Pages 49-52
Dynamic Gain of an Optical Transistor....Pages 53-56
Observation and Analysis of Critical Slowing Down in Nonlinear Visible Interference Filters....Pages 57-60
Simultaneous Optical Bistable Switching of Adjacent Pixels on ZnS and ZnSe Interference Filters....Pages 61-63
Advances in Optoelectronics....Pages 64-64
Optical Limits to Parallel Processing in a Fabry-Perot Etalon....Pages 65-68
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Composite Logic Gate Element and Multiplexer for Optical Computing and Optical Communications....Pages 69-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Properties of Nonlinear Surface Waveguides....Pages 74-78
Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena....Pages 79-82
Bistable Optical Device Using Guided Mode Excitation in Silicon on Sapphire....Pages 83-86
Light-Induced-Desorption: A New Mechanism for Bistability in Integrated Optical Devices....Pages 87-90
Optical Waveguides in Bulk and Multiple-Quantum-Well Structures....Pages 91-93
Intrinsic Optical Bistability in a Passive GaAlAs Waveguide....Pages 94-97
Stability and Instability of Nonlinear Standing Waves in Planar Optical Waveguides....Pages 98-101
Periodic Coupling in Dielectric/Semiconductor Guided-Wave Bistable Devices....Pages 102-104
Nonlinear Waveguide Couplers....Pages 105-108
Bistability and Self-Pulsing Using Input Couplers on Nonlinear Planar Waveguides....Pages 109-112
Angle and Frequency Optical Bistability: Resonant Excitation of a Nonlinear Guided Mode....Pages 113-116
Optical Bistability with Surface Plasmons Beyond Plane Waves in Nonlinear Dielectric....Pages 117-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Fast All-Optical Switching at Extremely Low Switching Energy in CdS Platelets....Pages 122-125
Optical Nonlinearities of Glasses Doped with CdS x Se 1−x ....Pages 126-128
Optical Bistability in CdS and Related Materials....Pages 129-131
Pulse Shaping and Optical Bistability in CuCl Due to Nonlinear Dispersion and Absorption....Pages 132-135
Bulk ZnSe: Linear Transmission to Damage Through Dispersive Bistability and Absorptive Switching....Pages 136-139
Room-Temperature Optical Nonlinearities and Bistability in CdHgTe and CdTe....Pages 140-143
Optical Bistability in PbSnSe at Room-Temperature with Infrared Radiation at Milliwatt Powers....Pages 144-147
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Liquid Crystals as Nonlinear Optical Materials....Pages 148-151
The Photorefractive Effect for Optical Processing....Pages 152-152
Large Third Order Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities in Organic Materials....Pages 153-155
Room-Temperature Optical Nonlinearity of Wide-Gap II–VI Compounds....Pages 156-159
Laser-Induced Distortion of Nematic Liquid Crystal Films and Observation of Cavityless Optical Bistability Due to Thermal Effects....Pages 160-164
Optical Nonlinearity and Resonant Bistability in Organic Photochromic Thin Films....Pages 165-168
Polarization Instability and Bistability in Birefringent Nonlinear Media....Pages 169-172
Optical Bistability in 1.55 µ m Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers....Pages 173-176
Nonlinear Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers as Low-Energy Optical Switches....Pages 177-180
Models for Absorption-Induced Optical Bistability in CdS and Multiple Quantum Well GaAs....Pages 181-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Longitudinal Effects in Increasing Absorption Optical Bistability....Pages 186-188
Measurement of Transverse Coupling Between Adjacent InSb Optical Switching Elements....Pages 189-192
Diffusion Effects in Bistable Optical Arrays....Pages 193-196
Cross-Trapping Optical Bistability of Two Counter-Propagating Beams in Sodium Vapor....Pages 197-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Noise Effects in Dispersive Optical Bistability....Pages 202-205
Effects of Holding-Field Noise on Optical Switching....Pages 206-208
Theory of Transient Optical Bimodality....Pages 209-212
Experimental Studies of Fluctuations in Transient Optical Bistability....Pages 213-216
Quantum Statistics of Small Bistable Systems....Pages 217-222
Control of σ + Beam Propagation by a σ − Beam....Pages 223-226
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Magnetic Control of Polarization Switching....Pages 227-230
Optical Bistability Experiments Using Samarium Vapor....Pages 231-234
Quantum “Optical” Bistability with Rydberg Na Atoms....Pages 235-239
Multiphoton Excitation of Relativistic Cyclotron Resonance and Phase Bistability....Pages 240-243
A Heuristic Stochastic Model of Mirrorless Optical Bistability....Pages 244-247
Optical Constants of Multiple Quantum Well Structures....Pages 248-251
Bistability in Intracavity Resonant Degenerate 4-Wave Mixing in Na Vapor....Pages 252-255
Width of OB Switching Time Distribution....Pages 256-259
Ring Pattern of Laser-Induced Thermal Self-Defocusing....Pages 260-264
Optical Bistability in Two-Beam Interferometric Devices with In-Phase Outputs....Pages 265-269
Optical Multistability in a Four-Level System Interacting with Two Fields....Pages 270-273
Generation of Squeezed States in Optical Bistability....Pages 274-276
Bistability by Reflection at the Boundary of a Saturable Absorber....Pages 277-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Ergodic Theory of Chaos....Pages 282-282
Instabilities in Dispersive OB on the Low Transmission Branch....Pages 283-286
Measurement of Dimension of Chaos in Optical Bistability....Pages 287-289
Quasiperiodic Route to Chaos in Self-Pulsing Semiconductor Lasers Under Large Signal Current Modulation....Pages 290-292
Optical Bistability and Instabilities Due to Mode-Mode Competition in a Homogeneously Broadened Ring Laser....Pages 293-297
Instabilities in a Self-Pumped Barium Titanate Phase Conjugate Mirror....Pages 298-301
Instabilities in the Propagation of Arbitrarily Polarized Counterpropagating Waves in a Nonlinear Kerr Medium....Pages 302-305
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Influence of Cavity Properties on the Interpretation of Experimental Results in Bistability....Pages 306-306
Optical Bistability with Two-State Atoms: Steady States and Dynamical Instabilities....Pages 307-310
Characterization of a Strange Attractor in an Optical System....Pages 311-313
Coherence and Chaos in Passive Nonlinear Optical Systems....Pages 314-318
Period Doubling and Intermittency in the Transmission of a Na Vapor-Filled Fabry-Perot....Pages 319-322
Instability Condition and Frequency-Locking in Hybrid Optical Bistability....Pages 323-326
Transverse Optical Bistability and Instabilities....Pages 327-330
Instabilities of a Semiconductor with Induced Absorption in a Ring Resonator....Pages 331-334
Optical Multistability and Oscillations in Hybrid Optical Bistable Systems with Short Delay Times....Pages 335-338
Poincaré Analysis of a Hybrid Bistable Device....Pages 339-341
Dual-Phase Oscillation from CW Transverse Instabilities in Sodium Vapor....Pages 342-344
Multimode Instabilities of Homogeneously Broadened Lasers....Pages 345-347
Instabilities in a CO 2 Laser with Feedback on Intracavity E-O Modulator....Pages 348-351
Stability of a 2-Photon Bistable System in a Standing Wave Cavity....Pages 352-355
Frequency Pushing and Frequency Hysteresis of Single-Mode, Standing-Wave Gas Lasers....Pages 356-358
Analytical Solutions and Intrinsic Instabilities for the Polarization in Nonlinear Isotropic and Anisotropic Optical Media....Pages 359-362
Back Matter....Pages 363-364