E-grāmata: Optical Bistability III: Proceedings of the Topical Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, Dezember 2-4, 1985

I Optical Circuitry and Computing.- Optical Bistability and the Digital
Optical Computers.- Nonlinear Optical Associative Memories.- Demonstration of
a Triple Bistable-Element Loop Circuit for a Digital Parallel All-Optical
Computer.- All-Optical Computing - Circuit and Component Designs.- Threshold
Device Tolerance Requirements in Digital Optical Computers.- Where
Conventional Computing Will Be Ten Years from Now.- The European Joint
Optical Bistability Project.- Optical Circuitry Cooperative (OCC).- Criteria
for Polarized Optical Bistability.- II Optical Logic Gates and Parallel
Processing.- Pulsed Optical Logic in GaAs Etalons.- Cascaded Bistable Optical
Devices Based on Two-Photon Absorption in Room Temperature InSb.- Fabrication
and Characterization of Arrays of GaAs All-Optical Logic Gates.- An Ultrafast
GaAs All-Optical Logic Gate.- White Light Switching of Visible Nonlinear
Interference Filters and Its Implications for the Design of a Spatial Light
Modulator.- Gain-Bandwidth Product of an InSb Transphasor.- Dynamic Gain of
an Optical Transistor.- Observation and Analysis of Critical Slowing Down in
Nonlinear Visible Interference Filters.- Simultaneous Optical Bistable
Switching of Adjacent Pixels on ZnS and ZnSe Interference Filters.- Advances
in Optoelectronics.- Optical Limits to Parallel Processing in a Fabry-Perot
Etalon.- Composite Logic Gate Element and Multiplexer for Optical Computing
and Optical Communications.- III Nonlinear Guided Waves.- Properties of
Nonlinear Surface Waveguides.- Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena.- Bistable
Optical Device Using Guided Mode Excitation in Silicon on Sapphire.-
Light-Induced-Desorption: A New Mechanism for Bistability in Integrated
Optical Devices.- Optical Waveguides in Bulk and Multiple-Quantum-Well
Structures.- Intrinsic Optical Bistability in a Passive GaAIAs Waveguide.-
Stability and Instability of Nonlinear Standing Waves in Planar Optical
Waveguides.- Periodic Coupling in Dielectric/Semiconductor Guided-Wave
Bistable Devices.- Nonlinear Waveguide Couplers.- Bistability and
Self-Pulsing Using Input Couplers on Nonlinear Planar Waveguides.- Angle and
Frequency Optical Bistability: Resonant Excitation of a Nonlinear Guided
Mode.- Optical Bistability with Surface Plasmons Beyond Plane Waves in
Nonlinear Dielectric.- IV Optical Bistability and Nonlinearity in
Semiconductor and Other Materials.- Fast All-Optical Switching at Extremely
Low Switching Energy in CdS Platelets.- Optical Nonlinearities of Glasses
Doped with CdSxSe1?x.- Optical Bistability in CdS and Related Materials.-
Pulse Shaping and Optical Bistability in CuCl Due to Nonlinear Dispersion and
Absorption.- Bulk ZnSe: Linear Transmission to Damage Through Dispersive
Bistability and Absorptive Switching.- Room-Temperature Optical
Nonlinearities and Bistability in CdHgTe and CdTe.- Optical Bistability in
PbSnSe at Room-Temperature with Infrared Radiation at Milliwatt Powers.-
Liquid Crystals as Nonlinear Optical Materials.- The Photorefractive Effect
for Optical Processing.- Large Third Order Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities
in Organic Materials.- Room-Temperature Optical Nonlinearity of Wide-Gap
II-VI Compounds.- Laser-Induced Distortion of Nematic Liquid Crystal Films
and Observation of Cavityless Optical Bistability Due to Thermal Effects.-
Optical Nonlinearity and Resonant Bistability in Organic Photochromic Thin
Films.- Polarization Instability and Bistability in Birefringent Nonlinear
Media.- Optical Bistability in
1. 55p,m Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers.-
Nonlinear Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers as Low-Energy Optical Switches.-
Models for Absorption-Induced Optical Bistability in CdS and Multiple Quantum
Well GaAs.- V Transverse and Longitudinal Effects.- Longitudinal Effects in
Increasing Absorption Optical Bistability.- Measurement of Transverse
Coupling Between Adjacent InSb Optical Switching Elements.- Diffusion Effects
in Bistable Optical Arrays.- Cross-Trapping Optical Bistability of Two
Counter-Propagating Beams in Sodium Vapor.- VI Fundamental Aspects and New
Schemes.- Noise Effects in Dispersive Optical Bistability.- Effects of
Holding-Field Noise on Optical Switching.- Theory of Transient Optical
Bimodality.- Experimental Studies of Fluctuations in Transient Optical
Bistability.- Quantum Statistics of Small Bistable Systems.- Control of ?+
Beam Propagation by a ?? Beam.- Magnetic Control of Polarization Switching.-
Optical Bistability Experiments Using Samarium Vapor.- Quantum "Optical"
Bistability with Rydberg Na Atoms.- Multiphoton Excitation of Relativistic
Cyclotron Resonance and Phase Bistability.- A Heuristic Stochastic Model of
Mirrorless Optical Bistability.- Optical Constants of Multiple Quantum Well
Structures.- Bistability in Intracavity Resonant Degenerate 4-Wave Mixing in
Na Vapor.- Width of OB Switching Time Distribution.- Ring Pattern of
Laser-Induced Thermal Self-Defocusing.- Optical Bistability in Two-Beam
Interferometric Devices with In-Phase Outputs.- Optical Multistability in a
Four-Level System Interacting with Two Fields.- Generation of Squeezed States
in Optical Bistability.- Bistability by Reflection at the Boundary of a
Saturable Absorber.- VII Instability and Chaos.- Ergodic Theory of Chaos.-
Instabilities in Dispersive OB on the Low Transmission Branch.- Measurement
of Dimension of Chaos in Optical Bistability.- Quasiperiodic Route to Chaos
in Self-Pulsing Semiconductor Lasers Under Large Signal Current Modulation.-
Optical Bistability and Instabilities Due to Mode-Mode Competition in a
Homogeneously Broadened Ring Laser.- Instabilities in a Self-Pumped Barium
Titanate Phase Conjugate Mirror.- Instabilities in the Propagation of
Arbitrarily Polarized Counterpropagating Waves in a Nonlinear Kerr Medium.-
Influence of Cavity Properties on the Interpretation of Experimental Results
in Bistability.- Optical Bistability with Two-State Atoms: Steady States and
Dynamical Instabilities.- Characterization of a Strange Attractor in an
Optical System.- Coherence and Chaos in Passive Nonlinear Optical Systems.-
Period Doubling and Intermittency in the Transmission of a Na Vapor-Filled
Fabry-Perot.- Instability Condition and Frequency-Locking in Hybrid Optical
Bistability.- Transverse Optical Bistability and Instabilities.-
Instabilities of a Semiconductor with Induced Absorption in a Ring
Resonator.- Optical Multistability and Oscillations in Hybrid Optical
Bistable Systems with Short Delay Times.- Poincare Analysis of a Hybrid
Bistable Device.- Dual-Phase Oscillation from CW Transverse Instabilities in
Sodium Vapor.- Multimode Instabilities of Homogeneously Broadened Lasers.-
Instabilities in a CO2 Laser with Feedback on Intracavity E-O Modulator.-
Stability of a 2-Photon Bistable System in a Standing Wave Cavity.- Frequency
Pushing and Frequency Hysteresis of Single-Mode, Standing-Wave Gas Lasers.-
Analytical Solutions and Intrinsic Instabilities for the Polarization in
Nonlinear Isotropic and Anisotropic Optical Media.- Index of Contributors.