We report, the first time to our knowledge, an observation of optical bistability in a Vertical-Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (VCSOA) operated in reflection mode. Counterclockwise hysteresis loops are obtained over a range of initial phase detuning and bias currents. One hysteresis loop is observed experimentally with an input power as low as 2 ìW when the device is biased at 98% of it...

Several problems in the physics of L→H transition and pedestal formation are examined using a simple and universal sandpile model, which incorporates key features of a confined plasma, namely, diffusion, shear induced bistability of turbulent transport, and a local magnetohydrodynamic !MHD" limit on the gradient. The main focus of this study is the effect of ambient diffusion, representative of...

Experimental, analytical, and numerical results suggest that the mechanism by which a uniaxial single-domain ferromagnet switches after sudden field reversal depends on the field magnitude and the system size. Here we report new results on how these distinct decay mechanisms influence hysteresis in a two-dimensional nearest-neighbor kinetic Ising model. We present theoretical predictions suppor...

Large changes in hysteresis are reported as a function of applied stress under thermal cycling experiments in NiTi single crystals. In the low Ni alloy the thermal hysteresis expanded with increasing stress while in the high Ni alloy the thermal hysteresis contracted with increasing stress. The results in both cases meet the limit obtained from Differential Scanning Calorimetry at zero stress. ...

2014 Molybdenum blue bronzes exhibit below the Peierls transition time-dependent phenomena. These properties, which are related to the charge density wave instability, are often associated to the presence of defects. In this paper we show that the hysteresis observed during temperature cycling is amplified when defects are introduced by irradiation. We describe two new phenomena observed after ...

The hysteresis loop, described during the formation of stressinduced pseudoelastic martensite in a Cu-Zn-A1 betaphase single crystal, was studied as a function of strain-rate, deformation amplitude and temperature. The aPtm, the stress at which the transformation starts at a given constant temperature, is strain-rate independent but the hysteresis described by the stress-strain curve shows a ma...

We describe a pulsed measurement technique for suppressing hysteresis for carbon nanotube (CNT) device measurements in air, vacuum, and over a wide temperature range (80-453 K). Varying the gate pulse width and duty cycle probes the relaxation times associated with charge trapping near the CNT, found to be up to the 0.1-10 s range. Longer off times between voltage pulses enable consistent, hyst...

This research is to use fuzzy controller to eliminate hysteresis effect of a force actuator for a Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM). This improvement has been verified by MATLAB simulation and practical implementation to reduce the hysteresis effect of the force actuator. Comparisons with two previous designs with and without Linear Velocity Transducer (LVT) for inner-loop feedback compensation a...