Abstract

Two current goals in the area of optical bistability are (1) to reduce the power required for switching between two states, and (2) to reduce the material volume (and hence power dissipation). An obvious approach is to minimize the cross-sectional area of the beam, for example by using channel waveguides of the type shown in Fig. 1. A grating milled into the surfaces can be used as the distributed feedback mechanism. In this paper we analyze a channel, guided wave, distributed feedback geometry and present numerical results for InSb waveguides.

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