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VOLUME 313 PAGES 187-451 NUMBER 1525

18 December 1984

Optical bistability, dynamical nonlinearity and photonic logic

A DISCUSSION ORGANIZED BY

S. D. SMITH, F.R.S., A. MILLER AND B. S. WHERRETT AND

EDITED BY B. S. WHERRETT AND S. D. SMITH, F.R.S.

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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 313, 187-451 (1984) [187]

Printed in Great Britain

OPTICAL BISTABILITY, DYNAMICAL NONLINEARITY AND PHOTONIC LOGIC

A DIscussION ORGANIZED BY S. D. SMITH, F.R.S., A. MILLER AND B. S. WHERRETT

AND EDITED BY B. S. WHERRETT AND S. D. SMITH, F.R.S

(Discussion held 21 and 22 March 1984 - Typescripts received 13 June 1984)

CONTENTS PAGE

SIR PETER SWINNERTON-DYER, F.R.S.

Opening address 191

S. D. SMITH, F.R.S. An introduction to optically bistable devices and photonic logic 195

A. HUANG

Impact of technological advances and architectural insights on the design of optical computers 205

B. S. WHERRETT

One-electron theory of nonliriear refraction 213

H. HAUG AND S. SCHMITT-RINK

Non-perturbative many-body theory of the optical nonlinearities in semiconductors 221

R. LEVY, B. HONERLAGE AND J. B. GRUN

Optical bistability in CuCl 229

D. A. B. MILLER

Multiple quantum well optical nonlinearities: bistability from increasing absorption and the self electro-optic device 239

H. M. GIBBS, J. L.JEWELL, N. PEYGHAMBARIAN, M. C. RUSHFORD, K. TAI,

S. S. TARNG, D. A. WEINBERGER, A. C. GOSSARD, W. WIEGMANN AND

T. VENKATESAN

Semiconductor nonlinear etalons 245

A. C. WALKER, F. A. P. TOOLEY, M. E. PRISE, J. G. H. MATHEW, A. K. KAR,

M. R. TAGHIZADEH AND S. D. SMITH, F.R.S.

InSb devices: transphasors with high gain, bistable switches and sequential logic gates 249

E. GARMIRE, C. D. POOLE AND J. A. GOLDSTONE

Bistability experimentally observed at three milliwatts in indium arsenide and theoretically predicted for a new class of nonlinear dielectrics 257

M. DAGENAIS

Giant nonlinearities and low power optical bistability in cadmium sulphide

platelets 265

Vol 31I3. A I 2 [Published I 8 December I 984

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188 CONTENTS

C. KLINGSHIRN, K. BOHNERT, K. KEMPF AND H. KALT PAGE

Nonlinear and optically bistable effects in cadmium sulphide 269

A. MILLER AND G. PARRY

Fast and sensitive nonlinear processes: bistability in CdHgTe 277

P. MANDEL AND T. ERNEUX

Dynamic effects in optical bistability 285

L. A. LUGIATO, R.J. HOROWICz, G. STRINI AND L. M. NARDUCCI

Transverse effects and noise in optical instabilities 291

W.J. FIRTH, E. ABRAHAM, E. M. WRIGHT, I. GALBRAITH AND B. S. WHERRETT

Diffusion, diffraction and reflection in semiconductor o.b. devices 299

F. T. ARECCHI

Generalized multistability and chaos in quantum optics 307

H. A. HAUS AND N. A. WHITAKER,JR

All-optical logic in optical waveguides 311

G. I. STEGEMAN, C. T. SEATON AND H. G. WINFUL

Applications of guided waves to nonlinear optics 321

Y. R. SHEN

Optical nonlinearity and bistability in liquid crystals 327

J. E. CARROLL AND I. H. WHITE

Optical bistability in semiconductor lasers 333

A. DORSEL, J. D. MCCULLEN, P. MEYSTRE, H. WALTHER AND E. M. WRIGHT

Optical resonators driven by radiation pressure 341

P. W. SMITH

Applications of all-optical switching and logic 349

F. A. P. TOoLEY, A. C. WALKER AND S. D. SMITH, F.R.S. Switching of optically bistable devices by incoherent illumination 357

C. SIBILIA, M. BERTOLOTTI AND D. SETTE

Bistable behaviour of light waves in a graded-index planar waveguide with

nonlinear substrate 361

A. BOARDMAN AND P. EGAN

Theory of optical hysteresis for TE guided modes 363

D. SARID

Guided-wave controlled etalons 371

J. L.JEWELL, M. C. RUSHFORD, H. M. GIBBS, M. WARREN,

N. PEYGHAMBARIAN, A. C. GOSSARD AND W. WIEGMANN

Optical logic on a single etalon 375

J. A. MARTIN-PEREDA, F.J. LOPEZ, M. A. MURIEL AND J. M. OTON

Photonic logic based on molecular reorientation of nematic liquid crystals 381

M. L. CLAUDE, L. L. CHASE, D. HULIN AND A. MYSYROWICZ

Optical phase conjugation via degenerate four-wave mixing in copper chloride 385

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CONTENTS 189

C. M. BOWDEN, J. W. HAUS, C. C. SUNG AND W. K. CHIU PAGE

Stationary properties of dispersive optical bistability in a dense exciton-biexciton system: copper chloride 389

J. A. GOLDSTONE AND E. GARMIRE

Intrinsic polarization bistability in nonlinear media 395

W.J. STEWART, I. BENNION AND M. J. GOODWIN

Resonant modulation 401

R. G. HARRISON, I. A. AL-SAIDI AND W.J. FIRTH

Observation of bifurcation to chaos in a passive all-optical Fabry-Perot resonator: a high frequency optical modulator 405

J. R. TREDICCE, G. L. Lippi, F. T. ARECCHI AND N. B. ABRAHAM

Stable oscillations in a bistable, bidirectional CO2 ring laser 411

W. E. SCHULZ, W. R. MACGILLIVRAY AND M. C. STANDAGE

Experimental study of the response of a bad cavity bistable system to fast light switch-on 417

W. LANGE, F. MITSCHKE, R. DESERNO AND J. MLYNEK Sodium atoms in Fabry-Perot resonators: studies of static and dynamic behaviour in transverse magnetic fields 421

G. BROGGI AND L. A. LUGIATO

Transient noise-induced optical bistability 425

J. V. MOLONEY Solitons in optical bistability 429

H.J. CARMICHAEL

Self-oscillation in a detuned cavity 433

G. P. HILDRED, S. S. HASSAN, R. R. PURI AND R. K. BULLOUGH

Quantum statistical properties of a quantum theory of optical bistability 439

R. J. BALLAGH AND V. JAIN

Optical multistability and Zeeman degenerate transitions 445

J. SEKE Closed equations of motion for expectation values of collective operators for spontaneous emission in the presence of external driving fields 449

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