Phase instabilities in absorptive optical bistability

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Publication date 1989
Journal Optics Communications
Volume | Issue number 73
Pages (from-to) 165-168
Number of pages 4
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract The authors report that for absorptive optical bistability in a Fabry-Perot cavity fluctuations in the phases of the fields can generate side-mode instabilities. These phase instabilities can occur in the one-atom branch of the bistability curve. Results are based on the linearized Maxwell-Bloch equations for a Fabry-Perot cavity with non-ideal mirrors. They strongly depend on the value of the mirror transmission coefficient and the ratio of the medium damping coefficients.
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