Overshoot switching, alternate switching, and subharmonic generation in bistable optical devices
- 15 July 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 37 (2), 126-128
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.91797
Abstract
We demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically a new mode of transient switching using rapid‐onset light signals in a bistable optical device with two comparable time constants. Four distinct transmission modes for input pulse trains have been observed, one of which produces a subharmonic of the input pulse train by alternate overshoot switching.Keywords
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