Description

Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials (JNOPM), 17 (2008) 339

URL

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218863508004202

Brief

Dispersive switching effect is examined for a mesoscopic system of coherently injected two-level Rydberg atoms into a driven single-mode superconducting cavity. The effect concerns the switching of the output field by simultaneously varying the atomic and cavity detuning parameters at fixed values of the coherent driving field. For certain atomic coherence parameters, symmetric and asymmetric switching diagrams are exhibited, which include one- and two-way process via multistep transitions between output field states.

KeyWords

Keywords: Atomic coherence; mesoscopic systems; multistability; dispersive switching effects.