An analytic study of the switching process in excitonic optical bistability in semiconductors
Nguyen Ba An, P. Mandel · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter · 1993
The authors study analytically the switching process in excitonic optical bistability in a semiconductor near the hysteresis limit points in the case of fully developed hysteresis. They consider four different time-dependent input pulse shapes that induce switching: a single rectangular pulse, a single triangular pulse, a sequence of rectangular pulses and a sequence of triangular pulses. The dependence of the switching time on the characteristics of these inputs is analysed.