Description

doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2010.03.022

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DOI

doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2010.03.022

Brief

Optical bistability for two-level atomic system in a ring cavity is investigated outside the rotating wave approximation (RWA) using non-autonomous Maxwell–Bloch equations with Fourier decomposition up to first harmonic. The first harmonic output field component exhibits reversed or closed loop bistability simultaneously with the usual (anti-clockwise) bistability in the fundamental field component.

KeyWords

Optical bistability -rotating wave approximation (RWA) .