Optical Bistability 2

Two-Level Atoms, Gases and Polarization Switching.- Optical Bistability with Two-level Atoms.- Observation of Ikeda Instabilities and Optical Bistability in an All-Optical Resonator Containing NH3 Gas.- Switching Behavior of Bistable Resonators Filled with Two-level Atoms.- Zeeman Coherence Effects in Absorptive Polarization Bistability.- Polarization Switching with J = 1/2 to J = 1/2 Atoms in a Ring Cavity.- Polarization Switching with Sodium Vapor in a Fabry-Perot.- Chaos.- Chaos and Optical Bistability: Bifurcation Structure.- Optical Bistability, Chaos in the Coherent Two-Photon Process.- Self-Pulsing, Breathing and Chaos in Optical Bistability and the Laser with Injected Signal.- Multistability, Self-Oscillation and Chaos in Nonlinear Optics.- The Physical Mechanism of Optical Instabilities.- Chaos in Optics.- Turbulence and 1/f Noise in Quantum Optics.- A Mechanism for Chaos in a Nonlinear Optical System.- Routes to Optical Turbulence in a Dispersive Ring Bistable Cavity Containing Saturable Nonlinearities.- Self-Pulsing and Chaos in Inhomogeneously Broadened Single Mode Lasers.- Connection between Ikeda Instabilities and Phase Conjugation.- Multiparameter Universal Route to Chaos in a Fabry-Perot Resonator.- The NMR-Laser - A Nonlinear Solid State System Showing Chaos.- Instabilities.- Self-Beating Instabilities in Bistable Devices.- Empirical and Analytical Study of Instabilities in Hybrid Optical Bistable Systems.- Instabilities and Chaos in TV-Optical Feedback.- Critical Slowing Down and Magnetically-Induced Self-Pulsing in a Sodium-filled Fabry-Perot Resonator.- A Catastrophe Model of Optical Bistability.- Bifurcation Geometry of Optical Bistability and Self-Pulsing.- Fluctuations.- Optical Bistability with Finite Bandwidth Noise.- Statistical Fluctuations in Optical Bistability Induced by Shot Noise.- Effect of Driving Laser Fluctuations in Optical Bistability.- Simulations of the Stochastic Dynamics of Switching for Optical Bistability.- Absorptive Optical Bistability with Laser Amplitude Fluctuations.- Semonductors.- Room Temperature Bistability, Logic Gate Operation, Incoherent Switching and High Signal Gain with InSb Devices.- Advances in GaAs Bistable Optical Devices.- Quantum Theory of Excitonic Optical Bistability.- Optical Bistability in Semiconductors.- Theory of Resonance Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductors.- Optical Bistability in CuCl.- Optical Nonlinearity and Bistability Due to the Biexciton Two-Photon Resonance in CuCl.- Low Power Optical Bistability Near Bound Excitons in Cadmium Sulfide.- Room Temperature Optical Nonlinear Absorption and Refraction in GaAs Multiple Quantum Wells.- Nonlinear Refraction and Nonlinear Absorption in InAs.- Resonant Frustrated Total Reflection (FTR) Approach to Optical Bistability in Semiconductors.- Non-linear Fabry-Perot Transmission in a CdHgTe Etalon.- Lasers, Liquid Crystals and Dyes.- Bistability in External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers.- Intrinsic Instabilities in Homogeneously Broadened Lasers.- Bistable Injection Lasers.- Precise Measurements on Optical Bistability and Passive Q-Switch in a CO2 Laser With Saturable Absorber.- Optical Bistability in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.- Optically-Induced Bistability in a Nematic Liquid Crystal.- Theoretical and Experimental Study of Optical Bistability in Four-level Nonradiative Dyes.- Observation of Thermal Optical Bistability, Cross-talk, Regenerative Pulsations and External Switch-Off in a Simple Dye-filled Etalon.- Novel Schemes.- Radiation Pressure Induced Optical Bistability and Mirror Confinement.- Mirrorless Optical Bistability Using the Local Field Correction.- Nonlinear Optical Interfaces.- Observation of Bistability in a Josephson Device.- Multistability in Josephson Junction Devices.- Distributed Feedback Bistability in Channel Waveguides.- Transverse Effects.- Effects of Radial Variation of the Electric Field on Some Instabilities in Optical Bistability and Lasers.- Transverse Solitary Waves in a Dispersive Ring Bistable Cavity Containing a Saturable Nonlinearity.- Self-Defocusing and Optical Crosstalk in a Bistable Optical Etalon.- Optical Bistability Based on Self-Focusing.- Theories.- Theory of Optical Bistability in Collinear Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing.- Saturable Interferometer Theory of Optical Bistability.- Absorptive Optical Bistability in a Bad Cavity.- Mirrored and Mirrorless Optical Bistability: Exact c-number Theory of Atoms Forming a Fabry-Perot Cavity.- Theory of Optical Bistability in Nonlinear Media for Slowly Varying Incident Intensity.- Strictly Quantum Optical Bistability.- Panel Discussion.- Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability Panel Discussion.- List of Contributing Authors.