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Optics Communications

Anomalous switching in dispersive optical bistability

F. A. Hopf, Pierre Meystre, P. D. Drummond, Daniel F. Walls

Published Nov 1, 1979• 50 citations
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10.1016/0030-4018(79)90315-8

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The nonlinear dynamics of the photon number in an optical cavity filled with a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate is investigated. We find that the way of adding the field is crucial to the switching close to the critical transition point. If the pump field is changed abruptly, the system may jump from one branch to the other even if the pump field intensity has not reached the critical transition point yet. This behavior is similar to the anomalous switching in the dispersive optical bistability.
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