Heuristic stochastic model of mirrorless optical bistability
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 32 (1), 268-275
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.32.268
Abstract
A heuristic microscopic two-level-atom model with fluctuations is developed to explore, theoretically, the effect of fluctuations on mirrorless optical bistability. In stochastic models, bistability appears as a bimodal distribution function. We show that the predictions of bimodality and bistability are the same in the heuristic and semiclassical (nonstochastic) microscopic models.Keywords
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