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This volume is a collection of experimental and theoretical papers
presented at the international "Topical Meeting on Optical
Bistability," held at the University of Rochester, June 15-17,
1983, sponsored jointly by the Air Force Office of Scientific Re
search; the Army Research Office; and the Optical Society of
America. The Conference, which had 150 attendees, overlapped (on
June 15) with the Fifth Rochester Conference on Coherence and
Quantum Optics with two joint sessions. Some of the topics cover ed
in this volume are also treated io the Proceedings of that
Conference. Since the last international conference on Optical
Bistability, held in Asheville, North Carolina, June 3-5, 1980,
there have been new and important fundamental advances in the
field. This is borne out in papers in this volume dealing with
optical chaos and period doubling bifurcations leading to chaos as
well as the report of results of an experiment using a very simple
system exhibiting ab sorptive optical bistability in a ring cavity
using optically pump ed sodium atoms, which was successfully
analyzed quantitatively by a simple theory. Other advances
discussed here include the ob servation of optical bistability due
to the effect of radiation pressure on one mirror of a fabry-Perot
cavity. and the prediction of mirrorless intrinsic opittal
bistability due to the local field correction incorporated into the
Maxwell-Bloch formulation. Advances in optical bistability in
semiconductors relate closer to actual device applications."
This is a collection of papers presented at the Topical Meeting on
Optical BistabiJity (OB3) held December 2-4,1985 in Tucson,
Arizona. The increase in attendance to almost 200 shows that
interest continues to grow in the sub ject of optical bistability
(OB) and its wider implications both in application to "optical
digital computing" and to basic physics, notably instabilities and
spatial effects. The maturing of the field is evidenced by the fact
that the number of experimental papers has caught up with the
number of theoretical ones. These trends were already apparent in
OB2 and the 1984 Royal Society Meeting on Optical Bistabilty,
Dynamical Nonlinearity and Photonic Logic. Progress in
experiment.al topics included guided-wave OB, mostly ther mal,
picol'econd switching, studies on quite a number of new materials,
op tical computing, and pattern recognition using arrays of
nonlinear etalons. Theoretical progress ranged from rather
practical calculations on device per formance, noise effects on
switching, and transverse and longitudinal spatial effects to
fundamental studies of dynamics, instabilities, and chaos. The
Conference also included both theoretical ideas on optical computer
archit.ecture and intrinsic OB circuit elements such as as full
adder as well as t.he first demonstration of an intrinsic optical
circuit in the form of a cas cadable loop with bufferd st.ores. A
first demostration of a simple pattern recognition algorithm using
2-D arrays of spots on a ZnSe int.erference filter was reported."
Nonlinear photonics is the name given to the use of nonlinear
optical devices for the generation, communication, processing, or
analysis of information. This book is a progress report on research
into practical applications of such devices. At present,
modulation, switching, routing, decision-making, and detection in
photonic systems are all done with electronics and linear
optoelectronic devices. However, this may soon change, as nonlinear
optical devices, e.g. picosecond samplers and switches, begin to
complement optoelectonic devices. The authors succinctly summarize
past accomplishments in this field and point to hopes for the
future, making this an ideal book for newcomers or seasoned
researchers wanting to design and perfect nonlinear optical devices
and to identify applications in photonic systems.
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