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  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1989),
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Exploring the unstable branch of bistable systems

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Abstract

A bistable system can be prepared on the unstable branch of the system’s steady state diagram (the S curve) through a two-step procedure (Fig. 1). One first biases the system to a value within the hysteresis width so that it rests in one of the three coexisting states. One then applies a switching pulse of suitable amplitude A and duration Ton top of the bias. The system will start to switch to the other stable branch, but after time T the switching is aborted (frustrated switching).

© 1989 Optical Society of America

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