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Published 1988 | public
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Experimental Investigation of the Single-Mode Instability in Optical Bistability

Abstract

Instabilities in optical systems form a very rich and exciting field of work. A great deal of theoretical effort has been devoted to understanding the complex behavior observed in the experiments. Active optical systems such as the laser have attracted more attention than passive systems; among the latter, the driven cavity filled with a collection of two-state atoms represents a canonical system in optical physics. Its study has shown optical bistability, instabilities, higher-order dynamical states and non-classical quantum statistics of the transmitted field.

Additional Information

© Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988. We would like to thank L. M. Narducci and L. A. Lugiato for many stimulating discussions. L. A. Orozco acknowledges support from an IBM graduate fellowship. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, the Venture Research Unit of British Petroleum North America Inc., the Joint Services Electronics Program, and the Southern Methodist University Research Council.

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