Bistable optical switching using bubbles

Janet L Jackel; John J. Johnson

doi:10.1364/IPR.1990.TuD8

Integrated Photonics Research
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1990),
paper TuD8
•https://doi.org/10.1364/IPR.1990.TuD8

Bistable optical switching using bubbles

Janet L Jackel and John J. Johnson

Integrated Photonics Research 1990

Hilton Head, South Carolina United States
26–28 March 1990
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Abstract

We have demonstrated bistable optical switching by using the creation and destruction of bubbles produced through the electrolytic dissociation of water into hydrogen or oxygen. So long as the bubbles do not merge, they persist nearly indefinitely, but if the bubbles are permitted to merge in the presence of a catalyst, the oxygen and hydrogen recombine rapidly, destroying the bubble.

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