Optical Bistability III: Proceedings of the Topical Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, Dezember 2–4, 1985 (Springer Proceedings in Physics, 8)

This is a collection of papers presented at the Topical Meeting on Optical BistabiJity (OB3) held December 2-4,1985 in Tucson, Arizona. The increase in attendance to almost 200 shows that interest continues to grow in the sub­ ject of optical bistability (OB) and its wider implications both in application to "optical digital computing" and to basic physics, notably instabilities and spatial effects. The maturing of the field is evidenced by the fact that the number of experimental papers has caught up with the number of theoretical ones. These trends were already apparent in OB2 and the 1984 Royal Society Meeting on Optical Bistabilty, Dynamical Nonlinearity and Photonic Logic. Progress in experiment.al topics included guided-wave OB, mostly ther­ mal, picol'econd switching, studies on quite a number of new materials, op­ tical computing, and pattern recognition using arrays of nonlinear etalons. Theoretical progress ranged from rather practical calculations on device per­ formance, noise effects on switching, and transverse and longitudinal spatial effects to fundamental studies of dynamics, instabilities, and chaos. The Conference also included both theoretical ideas on optical computer archit.ecture and intrinsic OB circuit elements such as as full adder as well as t.he first demonstration of an intrinsic optical circuit in the form of a cas­ cadable loop with bufferd st.ores. A first demostration of a simple pattern recognition algorithm using 2-D arrays of spots on a ZnSe int.erference filter was reported. 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