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Analytic Description of Multiphoton Optical Bistability in a Ring Cavity

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Optical Bistability

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A theory of two-photon optical bistability with two distinct fields is described, within the context of a ring cavity geometry. A number of specific physical features are considered in the analysis, in particular the incorporation of: (a) Phase and Stark effects; (b) Spatial effects; (c) Cavity and Atomic detuning’s; (d) Ionization from the upper excited level. Calculations are performed in the slowly-varying envelope approximation. Some of the results are extended to describe multiphoton interactions more generally.

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  1. Optics Section Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    J. A. Hermann

  2. Mathematics Department, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, P. O. Box 88, Manchester, M60, 1QD, UK

    B. V. Thompson

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  1. US Army Missile Laboratory, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, USA

    Charles M. Bowden

  2. US Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

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Hermann, J.A., Thompson, B.V. (1981). Analytic Description of Multiphoton Optical Bistability in a Ring Cavity. In: Bowden, C.M., Ciftan, M., Robl, H.R. (eds) Optical Bistability. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3941-0_13

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