TY  - GEN
TI  - Bistability and all-optical switching in semiconductor ring lasers
AU  - Pérez, Toni
AU  - Scirè, Alessandro
AU  - Van der Sande, Guy
AU  - Colet, Pere
AU  - Mirasso, Claudio R
PY  - 2007
PB  - Optical Society of America
LA  - eng
KW  - Optics
KW  - Lasers
KW  - ring
KW  - Semiconductor lasers
KW  - Optical logic
AB  - OCIS codes: (140.3560) Lasers, ring; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers; (200.4660) Optical logic.-- Final full-text version of the paper available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.012941. ; Semiconductor ring lasers display a variety of dynamical regimes originating from the nonlinear competition between the clockwise and counter-clockwise propagating modes. In particular, for large pumping the system has a bistable regime in which two stationary quasiunidirectional counter-propagating modes coexist. Bistability is induced by cross-gain saturation of the two counter-propagating modes being stronger than the self-saturation and can be used for data storage when the semiconductor ring laser is addressed with an optical pulse. In this work we study the response time when an optical pulse is injected in order to make the system switch from one mode to the counter-propagating one. We also determine the optimal pulse energy to induce switching. ; This work has been funded by the Spanish MEC and Feder under project TEC2006-10009/MIC (Conoce 2) and FIS2004-00953 (PhoDeCC), by the European Community under projects IST-2005-34743 (IOLOS) and IST-2005-34551 (PICASSO), and by the Balear Government under project PROGECIB-5A (QULMI). T.P. acknowledges support from the Govern Balear (Spain). A.S. acknowledges Ramón y Cajal program by MEC. G.V. is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10261/6072
DO  - 10.1364/OE.15.012941
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/base-ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/6072
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