Open AccessTEMPORAL ASPECTS OF ABSORPTIVE TWO-PHOTON OPTICAL BISTABILITY
Author(s) -
Ying-Hai Wang,
Hu Cheng-Sheng,
Zhicheng Wang
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.41.1598
Subject(s) - semiclassical physics , bistability , physics , photon , optical bistability , amplitude , perturbation (astronomy) , hysteresis , master equation , statistical physics , quantum mechanics , nonlinear optics , nonlinear system , quantum
We investigate the temporal aspects of absorptive two-photon optical bistability described by a semiclassical theory in the limit of a fully developed hysteresis cycle and when all decay rates have comparable magnitude. We show by multiple time-scale perturbation analysis that near the high-transmission branch the behavior of the system is governed by an equation for the field amplitude which determines the long-time evolution of the system, whereas, near the low-transmission branch all dynamical variables vary on the long time scale, and it is possible to describe the transition between the two stable branch by simple equations.