Self-Pulsing in Prism Coupling into Planar Absorbing SiO2-T1O2 Waveguides

V. Briguet; P. Pirani; W. Lukosz

doi:10.1117/12.967383

1 January 1987 Self-Pulsing in Prism Coupling into Planar Absorbing SiO2-T1O2 Waveguides

V. Briguet, P. Pirani, W. Lukosz

Proceedings Volume 0813, Optics and the Information Age; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967383
Event: 14th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, 1987, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Self-pulsing optical systems produce at constant input power P an output power PR (t)varying periodically with time t. Self-pulsing (SP) in nonlinear Fabry Perots and hybrid systems is well known. We reported the first known observation of SP in prism coupling into planar waveguides [1]. Recently we identified the physical mechanism of the SP and we shaved that SP occurs in a wider class of waveguide materials [2]. We also demonstrated that the same prism-waveguide system can exhibit SP, optical bistability (0B), and a special form of bistability (0B/SP), where at the same constant input power P the output power P is either constant in time or self-pulsing. In the present paper we present more experimental material and discuss the physical effects determining the system's behaviour.

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V. Briguet, P. Pirani, and W. Lukosz "Self-Pulsing in Prism Coupling into Planar Absorbing SiO2-T1O2 Waveguides", Proc. SPIE 0813, Optics and the Information Age, (1 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967383

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