Physical Review A

Nondegenerate two-photon optical bistability in a Fabry-Perot cavity filled with large-permanent-dipole molecules

T. Kobayashi, Nitin C. Kothari, Hisao Uchiki

Published May 1, 1984• 26 citations

Abstract

A semiclassical theoretical model is described under the plane-wave and mean-field approximations on the transmission characteristics of a system of two-level atoms with large permanent dipole moments contained in a Fabry-Perot cavity and driven by two coherent two-photon resonant fields. In the steady-state situation, the coupled field equations are solved by eliminating one of the field variables to obtain the state equation. This state equation is numerically analyzed in detail, thus providing the regions on two-dimensional maps corresponding to one, three, and five stationary states of the system. The linear stability analysis is also carried out for the case when the length of the cavity is such that the medium-relaxation times are much shorter than the cavity-photon life times for both the waves. The simple stability criterion that the negative-slope regions of the transmission curves are unstable holds, but only the lowest positive-slope branches show stability in all of the cases we tested numerically.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.29.2727

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