Optical bistability III : proceedings of the Topical Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, December 2-4, 1985

I Optical Circuitry and Computing. - Optical Bistability and the Digital Optical Computers. - Nonlinear Optical Associative Memories. - Demonstration of a Triple Bistable-Element Loop Circuit for a Digital Parallel All-Optical Computer. - All-Optical Computing - Circuit and Component Designs. - Threshold Device Tolerance Requirements in Digital Optical Computers. - Where Conventional Computing Will Be Ten Years from Now. - The European Joint Optical Bistability Project. - Optical Circuitry Cooperative (OCC). - Criteria for Polarized Optical Bistability. - II Optical Logic Gates and Parallel Processing. - Pulsed Optical Logic in GaAs Etalons. - Cascaded Bistable Optical Devices Based on Two-Photon Absorption in Room Temperature InSb. - Fabrication and Characterization of Arrays of GaAs All-Optical Logic Gates. - An Ultrafast GaAs All-Optical Logic Gate. - White Light Switching of Visible Nonlinear Interference Filters and Its Implications for the Design of a Spatial Light Modulator. - Gain-Bandwidth Product of an InSb Transphasor. - Dynamic Gain of an Optical Transistor. - Observation and Analysis of Critical Slowing Down in Nonlinear Visible Interference Filters. - Simultaneous Optical Bistable Switching of Adjacent Pixels on ZnS and ZnSe Interference Filters. - Advances in Optoelectronics. - Optical Limits to Parallel Processing in a Fabry-Perot Etalon. - Composite Logic Gate Element and Multiplexer for Optical Computing and Optical Communications. - III Nonlinear Guided Waves. - Properties of Nonlinear Surface Waveguides. - Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena. - Bistable Optical Device Using Guided Mode Excitation in Silicon on Sapphire. - Light-Induced-Desorption: A New Mechanism for Bistability in Integrated Optical Devices. - Optical Waveguides in Bulk and Multiple-Quantum-Well Structures. - Intrinsic Optical Bistability in a Passive GaAIAs Waveguide. - Stability and Instability of Nonlinear Standing Waves in Planar Optical Waveguides. - Periodic Coupling in Dielectric/Semiconductor Guided-Wave Bistable Devices. - Nonlinear Waveguide Couplers. - Bistability and Self-Pulsing Using Input Couplers on Nonlinear Planar Waveguides. - Angle and Frequency Optical Bistability: Resonant Excitation of a Nonlinear Guided Mode. - Optical Bistability with Surface Plasmons Beyond Plane Waves in Nonlinear Dielectric. - IV Optical Bistability and Nonlinearity in Semiconductor and Other Materials. - Fast All-Optical Switching at Extremely Low Switching Energy in CdS Platelets. - Optical Nonlinearities of Glasses Doped with CdSxSe1? x. - Optical Bistability in CdS and Related Materials. - Pulse Shaping and Optical Bistability in CuCl Due to Nonlinear Dispersion and Absorption. - Bulk ZnSe: Linear Transmission to Damage Through Dispersive Bistability and Absorptive Switching. - Room-Temperature Optical Nonlinearities and Bistability in CdHgTe and CdTe. - Optical Bistability in PbSnSe at Room-Temperature with Infrared Radiation at Milliwatt Powers. - Liquid Crystals as Nonlinear Optical Materials. - The Photorefractive Effect for Optical Processing. - Large Third Order Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities in Organic Materials. - Room-Temperature Optical Nonlinearity of Wide-Gap II-VI Compounds. - Laser-Induced Distortion of Nematic Liquid Crystal Films and Observation of Cavityless Optical Bistability Due to Thermal Effects. - Optical Nonlinearity and Resonant Bistability in Organic Photochromic Thin Films. - Polarization Instability and Bistability in Birefringent Nonlinear Media. - Optical Bistability in 1. 55p,m Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers. - Nonlinear Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers as Low-Energy Optical Switches. - Models for Absorption-Induced Optical Bistability in CdS and Multiple Quantum Well GaAs. - V Transverse and Longitudinal Effects. - Longitudinal Effects in Increasing Absorption Optical Bistability. - Measurement of Transverse Coupling Between Adjacent InSb Optical Switching Elements. - Diffusion Effects in Bistable Optical Arrays. - Cross-Trapping Optical Bistability of Two Counter-Propagating Beams in Sodium Vapor. - VI Fundamental Aspects and New Schemes. - Noise Effects in Dispersive Optical Bistability. - Effects of Holding-Field Noise on Optical Switching. - Theory of Transient Optical Bimodality. - Experimental Studies of Fluctuations in Transient Optical Bistability. - Quantum Statistics of Small Bistable Systems. - Control of ? + Beam Propagation by a ? Beam. - Magnetic Control of Polarization Switching. - Optical Bistability Experiments Using Samarium Vapor. - Quantum "Optical" Bistability with Rydberg Na Atoms. - Multiphoton Excitation of Relativistic Cyclotron Resonance and Phase Bistability. - A Heuristic Stochastic Model of Mirrorless Optical Bistability. - Optical Constants of Multiple Quantum Well Structures. - Bistability in Intracavity Resonant Degenerate 4-Wave Mixing in Na Vapor. - Width of OB Switching Time Distribution. - Ring Pattern of Laser-Induced Thermal Self-Defocusing. - Optical Bistability in Two-Beam Interferometric Devices with In-Phase Outputs. - Optical Multistability in a Four-Level System Interacting with Two Fields. - Generation of Squeezed States in Optical Bistability. - Bistability by Reflection at the Boundary of a Saturable Absorber. - VII Instability and Chaos. - Ergodic Theory of Chaos. - Instabilities in Dispersive OB on the Low Transmission Branch. - Measurement of Dimension of Chaos in Optical Bistability. - Quasiperiodic Route to Chaos in Self-Pulsing Semiconductor Lasers Under Large Signal Current Modulation. - Optical Bistability and Instabilities Due to Mode-Mode Competition in a Homogeneously Broadened Ring Laser. - Instabilities in a Self-Pumped Barium Titanate Phase Conjugate Mirror. - Instabilities in the Propagation of Arbitrarily Polarized Counterpropagating Waves in a Nonlinear Kerr Medium. - Influence of Cavity Properties on the Interpretation of Experimental Results in Bistability. - Optical Bistability with Two-State Atoms: Steady States and Dynamical Instabilities. - Characterization of a Strange Attractor in an Optical System. - Coherence and Chaos in Passive Nonlinear Optical Systems. - Period Doubling and Intermittency in the Transmission of a Na Vapor-Filled Fabry-Perot. - Instability Condition and Frequency-Locking in Hybrid Optical Bistability. - Transverse Optical Bistability and Instabilities. - Instabilities of a Semiconductor with Induced Absorption in a Ring Resonator. - Optical Multistability and Oscillations in Hybrid Optical Bistable Systems with Short Delay Times. - Poincare Analysis of a Hybrid Bistable Device. - Dual-Phase Oscillation from CW Transverse Instabilities in Sodium Vapor. - Multimode Instabilities of Homogeneously Broadened Lasers. - Instabilities in a CO2 Laser with Feedback on Intracavity E-O Modulator. - Stability of a 2-Photon Bistable System in a Standing Wave Cavity. - Frequency Pushing and Frequency Hysteresis of Single-Mode, Standing-Wave Gas Lasers. - Analytical Solutions and Intrinsic Instabilities for the Polarization in Nonlinear Isotropic and Anisotropic Optical Media. - Index of Contributors.