Self-pulsing and chaos in distributed feedback bistable optical devices
- 15 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 40 (4), 298-300
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.93083
Abstract
We show that the light transmitted by a nonlinear distributed feedback structure can be steady (time independent), periodic, or chaotic depending on the intensity of the input cw beam. The feasibility of an experimental demonstration of such behavior is discussed.Keywords
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