Abstract

In a previous paper¹an empirical and analytical study of instabilities in hybrid optical bistable systems was reported by us. At the end of that paper and in order to study the theory, a triangular voltage bias was added to the feedback, instead of the usual constant one. In that way the workline is displayed with the same slope, tg⁻¹βI_IN. Because the slope transmission $\left(\frac{\text{dT}}{\text{dV}}\right)$ was negative, the output, for a constant input, was periodic oscillations having a delay time larger the material response time. The nomenclature is explained in ref. ¹.

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