Stability conditions for two-photon optical bistability in a ring cavity

doi:10.1016/0030-4018(81)90136-X

Optics Communications

Volume 37, Issue 6, 15 June 1981, Pages 431-436

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Abstract

A stability analysis in the good-cavity and mean-field limits, of two-photon optical bistability arising when two beams at different frequencies interact with a nonlinear medium in a ring cavity, is presented. Another metastable state has been found to occur in the double-absorption case in certain circumstances, and the system may be described as exhibiting a form of tristability.

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Stability conditions for two-photon optical bistability in a ring cavity

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