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Optical Bistability III

Proceedings of the Topical Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, Dezember 2–4, 1985

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Hyatt M. Gibbs

    1. Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  2. Paul Mandel

    1. Campus Plaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

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  3. Nasser Peyghambarian

    1. Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  4. S. Desmond Smith

    1. Dept. of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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Table of contents (96 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Optical Circuitry and Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Optical Bistability and the Digital Optical Computers

      • A. W. Lohmann
      Pages 2-3

    3. Nonlinear Optical Associative Memories

      • D. Psaltis
      Pages 4-7

    4. Demonstration of a Triple Bistable-Element Loop Circuit for a Digital Parallel All-Optical Computer

      • S. D. Smith, A. C. Walker, F. A. P. Tooley, J. G. H. Mathew, M. R. Taghizadeh
      Pages 8-11

    5. All-Optical Computing — Circuit and Component Designs

      • B. S. Wherrett
      Pages 12-15

    6. Threshold Device Tolerance Requirements in Digital Optical Computers

      • K. Wagner, R. T. Weverka, D. Psaltis
      Pages 16-20

    7. Where Conventional Computing Will Be Ten Years from Now

      • J. A. Armstrong
      Pages 21-21

    8. The European Joint Optical Bistability Project

      • S. D. Smith, P. Mandel
      Pages 22-25

    9. Optical Circuitry Cooperative (OCC)

      • H. M. Gibbs
      Pages 26-27

    10. Criteria for Polarized Optical Bistability

      • A. Korpel, A. W. Lohmann
      Pages 28-30

  3. Optical Logic Gates and Parallel Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Pulsed Optical Logic in GaAs Etalons

      • J. L. Jewell, Y. H. Lee, J. F. Duffy, A. C. Gossard, W. Wiegmann, J. H. English
      Pages 32-34

    3. Cascaded Bistable Optical Devices Based on Two-Photon Absorption in Room Temperature InSb

      • Wei Ji, A. K. Kar, U. Keller, J. G. H. Mathew, A. C. Walker
      Pages 35-38

    4. Fabrication and Characterization of Arrays of GaAs All-Optical Logic Gates

      • M. Warren, Y. H. Lee, G. R. Olbright, B. P. McGinnis, H. M. Gibbs, N. Peyghambarian et al.
      Pages 39-41

    5. An Ultrafast GaAs All-Optical Logic Gate

      • A. Migus, D. Hulin, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Antonetti, N. Peyghambarian, H. M. Gibbs et al.
      Pages 42-44

    6. White Light Switching of Visible Nonlinear Interference Filters and Its Implications for the Design of a Spatial Light Modulator

      • M. R. Taghizadeh, F. A. P. Tooley, J. G. H. Mathew
      Pages 45-48

    7. Gain-Bandwidth Product of an InSb Transphasor

      • H. A. Al-Attar, W. J. Firth, H. A. MacKenzie, F. A. P. Tooley, A. C. Walker
      Pages 49-52

    8. Dynamic Gain of an Optical Transistor

      • P. Nardone, P. Mandel
      Pages 53-56

    9. Observation and Analysis of Critical Slowing Down in Nonlinear Visible Interference Filters

      • J. G. H. Mathew, M. R. Taghizadeh, E. Abraham, I. Janossy, S. D. Smith
      Pages 57-60
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Hyatt M. Gibbs, Nasser Peyghambarian

  • Campus Plaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Paul Mandel

  • Dept. of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    S. Desmond Smith

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Optical Bistability III

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Topical Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, Dezember 2–4, 1985

  • Editors: Hyatt M. Gibbs, Paul Mandel, Nasser Peyghambarian, S. Desmond Smith

  • Series Title: Springer Proceedings in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46580-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-46582-6Published: 10 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-46580-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0930-8989

  • Series E-ISSN: 1867-4941

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 366

  • Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

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