Nonlinear optics

Switching waves in a complex structure of a semiconductor interferometer with competing nonlinearities

Yu. A. Rzhanov


Abstract: A study is made of the dynamics of formation of switching fronts and of pulses with a complex profile in a multistable semiconductor Fabry–Perot interferometer with the two competing optical nonlinearity mechanisms. The predicted structures can appear in any distributed system with competing nonlinearities and very different characteristic relaxation times.

UDC: 621.373.826

PACS: 07.60.Ly, 85.30.-z, 42.65.Pc

Received: 02.11.1989

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1990, 20:9, 1117–1119

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