Optical Bistability 2

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Two-Level Atoms, Gases and Polarization Switching

   1. Optical Bistability with Two-Level Atoms

      • H. J. Kimble, A. T. Rosenberger, P. D. Drummond

      Pages 1-8

   2. Observation of Ikeda Instabilities and Optical Bistability in an All-Optical Resonator Containing NH3 Gas

      • R. G. Harrison, C. A. Emshary, I. A. Al-Saidi, W. J. Firth

      Pages 9-16

   3. Switching Behavior of Bistable Resonators Filled with Two-Level Atoms

      • G. Cooperman, M. Dagenais, H. G. Winful

      Pages 17-24

   4. Zeeman Coherence Effects in Absorptive Polarization Bistability

      • Govind P. Agrawal

      Pages 25-30

   5. Polarization Switching with J=1/2 to J=1/2 Atoms in a Ring Cavity

      • W. J. Sandle, M. W. Hamilton, R. J. Ballagh

      Pages 31-38

   6. Polarization Switching with Sodium Vapor in a Fabry Perot

      • M. W. Hamilton, W. J. Sandle

      Pages 39-44

3. Chaos

   1. Chaos and Optical Bistability: Bifurcation Structure

      • K. Ikeda

      Pages 45-46

   2. Optical Bistability, Chaos in the Coherent Two Photon Processes

      • G. S. Agarwal, Surendra Singh

      Pages 47-48

   3. Self-Pulsing, Breathing and Chaos in Optical Bistability and the Laser with Injected Signal

      • L. A. Lugiato, L. M. Narducci

      Pages 49-51

   4. Multistability, Self-Oscillation and Chaos in Nonlinear Optics

      • H. J. Carmichael, C. M. Savage, D. F. Walls

      Pages 53-60

   5. The Physical Mechanism of Optical Instabilities

      • Y. Silberberg, I. Bar-Joseph

      Pages 61-66

   6. Chaos in Optics

      • F. A. Hopf, M. W. Derstine, H. M. Gibbs, M. C. Rushford

      Pages 67-79

   7. Turbulence and 1/f Noise in Quantum Optics

      • F. T. Arecchi

      Pages 81-86

   8. A Mechanism for Chaos in a Nonlinear Optical System

      • J. V. Moloney, S. Hammel, C. R. T. Jones

      Pages 87-94

   9. Routes to Optical Turbulence in a Dispersive Ring Bistable Cavity Containing Saturable Nonlinearities

      • J. V. Moloney, H. M. Gibbs, F. A. Hopf

      Pages 95-102

   10. Self-Pulsing and Chaos in Inhomogeneously Broadened Single Mode Lasers

       • R. Graham, Y. Cho

       Pages 103-110

   11. Connection between Ikeda Instability and Phase Conjugation

       • W. J. Firth, E. M. Wright, E. J. D. Cummins

       Pages 111-118

   12. Multi-Parameter Universal Route to Chaos in a Fabry-Perot Resonator

       • Eitan Abraham, William J. Firth

       Pages 119-126

   13. The NMR-Laser — A Nonlinear Solid State System Showing Chaos

       • E. Brun, B. Derighetti, R. Holzner, D. Meier

       Pages 127-134

This volume is a collection of experimental and theoretical papers presented at the international "Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability", held at the University of Rochester, June 15-17, 1983, sponsored jointly by the Air Force Office of Scientific Re­ search; the Army Research Office; and the Optical Society of America. The Conference, which had 150 attendees, overlapped (on June 15) with the Fifth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics with two joint sessions. Some of the topics cover­ ed in this volume are also treated io the Proceedings of that Conference. Since the last international conference on Optical Bistability, held in Asheville, North Carolina, June 3-5, 1980, there have been new and important fundamental advances in the field. This is borne out in papers in this volume dealing with optical chaos and period doubling bifurcations leading to chaos as well as the report of results of an experiment using a very simple system exhibiting ab­ sorptive optical bistability in a ring cavity using optically pump­ ed sodium atoms, which was successfully analyzed quantitatively by a simple theory. Other advances discussed here include the ob­ servation of optical bistability due to the effect of radiation pressure on one mirror of a fabry-Perot cavity. and the prediction of mirrorless intrinsic opittal bistability due to the local field correction incorporated into the Maxwell-Bloch formulation. Advances in optical bistability in semiconductors relate closer to actual device applications.

• atoms
• bifurcation
• chaos
• coherence
• experiment
• optics
• paper
• quantum optics
• radiation
• semiconductor
• society
• sodium
• stability
• system

• U.S. Army Missile Laboratory, U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, USA

  Charles M. Bowden

• University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Hyatt M. Gibbs

• AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA

  Samuel L. McCall

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