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A new class of optical multistabilities and instabilities induced by atomic coherence
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In this article, the collective radiative behavior of three level atoms with two degenerate levels in the ground state was investigated, with particular emphasis on the role of ground state atomic coherence.About:
This article is published in Optics Communications.The article was published on 1983-02-15. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Atomic coherence & Optical bistability.read more
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Effect of quantum interference on optical bistability in the three-level V-type atomic system
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of quantum interference and coupling field on the optical bistability of a three-level atomic system in V-configuration confined in a unidirectional optical ring cavity.
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Control of the switch between optical multistability and bistability in three-level V-type atoms
Zhiping Wang,Miaocun Xu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors theoretically investigated a hybrid absorptive-dispersive optical bistability and multistability behavior in a three-level V-type system using a microwave field driving a hyperfine transition between two upper excited states inside a unidirectional ring cavity.
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Effect of spontaneously generated coherence on optical bistability in three-level Λ-type atomic system
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of spontaneously generated coherence in the presence of two arbitrary coherent fields are investigated for a three-level atomic system in Λ-configuration contained in an optical ring cavity.
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Phase-dependent optical bistability and multistability in a semiconductor quantum well system
Zhiping Wang,Hongyi Fan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors theoretically investigate the hybrid absorptive-dispersive optical bistability and multistability in a four-level inverted-Y quantum well system inside a unidirectional ring cavity.
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Control of the optical multistability in a three-level ladder-type quantum well system
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors theoretically investigated a hybrid absorptive-dispersive optical multistability behavior in a three-level ladder-type quantum well system inside a unidirectional ring cavity.
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Optical bistability and cooperative effects in resonance fluorescence
R. Bonifacio,Luigi A. Lugiato +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a mean-field quantum-mechanical model is proposed to describe the dynamics of a homogeneously broadened system of two-level atoms contained in a pencil-shaped resonant cavity and driven by a coherent resonant field.
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Cooperative effects and bistability for resonance fluorescence
R. Bonifacio,Luigi A. Lugiato +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the stationary behavior of a homogenously broadened system of atoms driven by a coherent resonant field is discussed. And the spectrum of the fluorescent light undergoes a first-order phase transition for high density of the atomic system.
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Adiabatic following model for two-photon transitions: nonlinear mixing and pulse propagation
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of two-photon coherent effects can be used to derive and explain these nonlinear mixing processes, which allows a natural extension to large angles, and power-dependent nonlinear susceptibilities are obtained.
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Nonabsorption resonances by nonlinear coherent effects in a three-level system
TL;DR: The behaviour of a three-level system consisting of two ground-state sub-levels optically coupled to a common excited state is analyzed in this article, where exact steady solution of the semi-classical equations of motion for the density matrix is obtained (within the RWA) and numerically investigated when the frequency difference of the two applied fields becomes equal to the frequency splitting of the lower levels, a mechanism of transverse optical pumping takes place that accumulates all the atoms in a coherent superposition state of the ground sublevels, in which they are no longer able to
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