Switching of optically bistable devices by incoherent illuminations
- 18 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Vol. 313 (1525) , 357-360
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1984.0118
Abstract
We report the first observation of the external switching of an intrinsic optically bistable device by incoherent radiation. The device, consisting of an InSb etalon held at 85 K and optically biased by a continuous wave CO laser operating at 5.5 pm, was switched both from off to on resonance and from on to off resonance by using a photographic flashlamp. Results presented indicate that the required switching energy per unit area can be of the order of 100 fJ pm -2 .Keywords
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