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Communications in Theoretical Physics

First-Order-Like Transition for Dispersive Optical Bistability

He Ying, Zhu Shi-Qun

Published Jan 15, 2003• 1 citation
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Abstract

The first-order-like phase transition (FOLT) in the dispersive optical bistability is investigated when the fluctuation in the incident light field is considered as colored noise. A unified colored-noise approximation is applied to obtain the steady state distribution (SSD) when either the intensity or phase fluctuations of the incident field are included in the system. For intensity fluctuations only, the curve of SSD is changed from single extreme to two extremes, and then to three extremes. The colored nature of the noise can reduce the fluctuation in the system. However, for phase fluctuations only, the FOLT is mainly induced by the colored nature of the noise. The curve of SSD is changed from single extreme to three extremes directly. There is no FOLT existing for white noise.

DOI
10.1088/0253-6102/39/1/57

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The first-order-like phase transition (FOLT) in the dispersive optical bistability is investigated when the fluctuation in the incident light field is considered as colored noise. A unified colored-noise approximation is applied to obtain the steady state distribution (SSD) when either the intensity or phase fluctuations of the incident field are included in the system. For intensity fluctuations only, the curve of SSD is changed from single extreme to two extremes, and then to three extremes. The colored nature of the noise can reduce the fluctuation in the system. However, for phase fluctuations only, the FOLT is mainly induced by the colored nature of the noise. The curve of SSD is changed from single extreme to three extremes directly. There is no FOLT existing for white noise.
With unified colored noise approximation, the steady state distribution function in dispersive optical bistability including both intensity and phase fluctuations is obtained. The parameter plane of the first-order-like phase transition is also derived with numerical method. It is found that the number of extremes at non-zero values of the output field in the steady state distribution function is changed from zero, two to four. It is shown that the strengths of the intensity fluctuation and the phase fluctuation have great effect on the first-order-like phase transition.
With unified colored noise approximation, the steady state distribution function in dispersive opticalbistability including both intensity and phase fluctuations is obtained. The parameter plane of the first-order-like phasetransition is also derived with numerical method. It is found that the number of extremes at non-zero values of theoutput field in the steady state distribution function is changed from zero, two to four. It is shown that the strengths of the intensity fluctuation and the phase fluctuation have great effect on the first-order-like phase transition.
We formulate a running-wave, single-mode model for purely dispersive optical bistability that incorporates amplitude and frequency fluctuations in the incident-field, cavity-length fluctuations, and thermal noise in the radiation field and in the material. This model is given by a set of three Langevin-type equations for the real and the imaginary parts of the slowly varying electric field and for the material variable. In the white-noise limit, it is equivalent to a Fokker–Planck equation in three variables. Even if our model can also describe a Kerr medium or a two-level system in a suitable range of parameters, we are interested mainly in the case of miniaturized all-optical bistable devices that utilize semiconductor dispersive media. In this situation, we can adiabatically eliminate the field variables and therefore reduce the problem to a single stochastic differential equation in one variable, which contains several terms of additive and multiplicative noise. We find that noise in the imaginary part of the slowly varying electric field does not contribute to this equation. In the white-noise case, our stochastic equation is equivalent to a Fokker–Planck equation in one variable, whereas in the case of colored noise we obtain a one-dimensional Fokker–Planck equation only in the limit of short correlation times. Finally, we calculate the stationary solution of the resulting Fokker–Planck equation. We show that the presence of colored noise narrows the peaks of the probability distribution at steady state with respect to the white-noise case.
We formulate a running wave, singlemode model for purely dispersive optical bistability, which incorporates amplitude and frequency fluctuations in the incident field, cavity length fluctuations, thermal noise in the radiation field and in the material (1). This model is given by a set of three Langevin-type equations for the real and the imaginary part of the slowly-varying electric field, and for the material variable. In the white noise limit, it is equivalent to a Fokker-Planck equation in three variables. Even if our model can describe also a Kerr medium or a two-level system in a suitable range of parameters, we are mainly interested in the case of miniaturized all–optical bistable devices which utilize semiconductor dispersive media. In this situation, we can adiabatically eliminate the field variables and therefore reduce the problem to a single stochastic differential equation in one variable, which contains several terms of additive and multiplicative noise. We find that noise in the imaginary part of the slowly varying electric field does not contribute to this equation. In the white, -noise case, our stochastic equation is equivalent to a Fokker-Planck equation in one variable, whereas in the case of colored noise we obtain a onedimensional Fokker-Planck equation only in the limit of short correlation times.
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