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Optical Bistability: An Undergraduate Experiment
An apparatus for student use is described that utilizes only commercially available components and that can be used as several different optical devices: optical memory, optical limiter, and optical ac amplifier. This simple setup is a close analog of the optical bistable devices being developed for possible optical signal-processing applications.
Publish Date: 01 April 1980
