Optical multistability in three-level atoms inside an optical ring cavity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Joshi, Amitabh ^a   Xiao, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BEAMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; RUBIDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ATOMIC COHERENCE; ATOMIC NUMBER DENSITY; ATOMIC OPTICAL BISTABILITY; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; KERR NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL MULTISTABILITY; OPTICAL RING CAVITY; THREE-LEVEL ATOM;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0242425672     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.143904     Document Type: Article

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