Guided-wave optical bistability and limiting in zinc sulfide thin films
- 15 April 1990
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 67 (8) , 3882-3885
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.344990
Abstract
All-optical limiting and bistability are experimentally demonstrated in zinc sulfide waveguides excited by distributed grating couplers. The results are consistent with the presence of a diffusive nonlinearity through the optothermal effect, and a simplified model of the nonlocal traveling-wave interaction between radiation and guided modes is in agreement with the experimental data.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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