Bistability and Ultrafast Mode Switching in Microlasers

Sergei V. Zhukovsky; Dmitry N. Chigrin; Andrei V. Lavrinenko; Johann Kroha

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008),
paper JThA99

Bistability and Ultrafast Mode Switching in Microlasers

Sergei V. Zhukovsky, Dmitry N. Chigrin, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, and Johann Kroha

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference 2008

San Jose, California United States
4–9 May 2008
ISBN: 978-1-55752-859-9

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S. V. Zhukovsky, D. N. Chigrin, A. V. Lavrinenko, and J. Kroha, "Bistability and Ultrafast Mode Switching in Microlasers," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008), paper JThA99.

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Abstract

General theoretical principles for bistability in microlasers are formulated. Bistable lasing is reported between modes with similar spatial intensity profiles in coupled microcavities, allowing wavelength switching by several nanometers on an ultrafast, picosecond time scale.

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