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  • International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems
  • Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1985),
  • paper WA1
  • •https://doi.org/10.1364/IDLNOS.1985.WA1

Overview of the Theory of Optical Bistability

H. J. Carmichael

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Abstract

The theory of optical bistability can be developed at various levels of sophistication.(1) In this overview I have chosen an approach which I hope will make the simplicity and generality of the phenomenon clear, and be suited to the emphasis of this meeting. I will describe a deterministic, semiclassical theory of optical bistability, based on coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations. Statistical and quantum statistical theories will not be included. I also limit my attention to questions concerning steady states and their stability, leaving the theory of higher bifurcations to other speakers.

© 1985 Optical Society of America

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