Optical Polarisation Bistability in χ2Media at Large Desynchronisation Regime

Intrinsic optical bistability in nanomechanical metamaterials at milliwatt power levels

We report the first demonstration of optical bistability in nanomechanical metamaterials arrays of plasmonic or dielectric resonators on flexible nano-membranes. Bistability results from the nonlinearity of the near-field forces induced by light. Optical bistability has received considerable attention over many years as it represents a fundamental building block for applications in optical swit...

Optical Bistability in Active Devices

1 . I n t r o d u c t i o n R e c e n t p r o g r e s s i n t h e s t u d y o f b o t h a b s o r p t i v e a n d d i s p e r s i v e b i s t a b i l i t y i n l a s e r d i o d e s (LDs) i s r e v i e w e d / I / . T h e m o s t d i s t i n c t i v e f e a t u r e o f b i s t a b l e LDs i s t h a t t h e y h a v e o p t i c a l g a i n . O p t i c a l g a i n r e s u l t s i n a d v a n t a g...

Optical Bistability and its Computation

Optical bistability in axially modulated OmniGuide fibers.

We demonstrate the feasibility of optical bistability in an axially modulated nonlinear OmniGuide fiber through analytical theory and detailed numerical experiments. At 1.55-microm carrier wavelength, the in-fiber devices that we propose can operate with only a few tens of milliwatts of power, can have a nearly instantaneous response and recovery time, and can be shorter than 100 microm.

Critical exponents in dispersive optical bistability