Critical slowing-down phenomena in an InSb optically bistable étalon
- 1 September 1986
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 3 (9) , 1157-1163
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.3.001157
Abstract
We report the first known direct observation of the critical slowing-down effect and transient bimodality in an intrinsic semiconductor all-optically bistable device with a cw CO laser holding beam and a PbSSe diode laser switching beam. The measurements of critical slow-down effects show good agreement with the numerical model using a modified Debye dynamic equation. The switching profile has been shown to depend on both the size of the hysteresis loop and the diode pulse parameter. A scaling law for the delay time of the switching when external parameter P changes close to the critical value Pc has been indicated to fit (P – Pc)−½.Keywords
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