Physical Review A

Critical phenomena and phase transitions in optical bistability

Fa Ou

Published Mar 1, 1990• 7 citations

Abstract

Critical phenomena in optical bistability (OB) are studied in detail. The theoretical analyses, mainly based on the steady-state solution of the ``thermodynamics'' Fokker-Planck equation [Fa Ou and Zixiong Qin, Opt. Commun. 65, 455 (1988)] for absorptive OB, show that the critical phenomena in OB also can be brought into the framework of Landau's theory for the second-order phase transition, and the critical exponents obey the scaling laws.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.41.3021

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