Optical BistabilityDuring the past few decades we have witnessed at least two major innovations in science which have had substantial impact on technology as well as science itself, pervasive enough to modify many facets of our daily lives. We refer, of course, to the tran sistor and the laser. It is striking that now with the advent of optical bistability we may have opened the door to another such field, which combines these two aspects (transistor and laser) and has the possibility for important device applications as well as providing a unique window into the as yet not thoroughly explored frontiers of nonequilibrium statistical physics. This has prompted us to organize an international conference on the subject of optical bistability to provide an adequate means for assessing the current state of the art of this important field and to stimulate further significant developments by means of in tense technical exchange and interaction among the leading scien tists in this subject area. |
Contents
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Transform | 31 |
Bistable Systems in Nonlinear Optics | 51 |
Bistability in Irradiated Josephson Junctions | 85 |
Optical Bistability Experiments and MeanField | 93 |
Optical Bistability in a GaAs Etalon | 109 |
Optical Bistability and MultiStability in | 115 |
Frequency Switching in Dispersive Optical | 281 |
Dispersive Optical Bistability with Fluctuations | 293 |
Fluctuations and Transitions in the Absorptive | 315 |
Short and LongTime Evolution in Absorptive | 337 |
85 | 352 |
Cooperation in an OpticalBistability System | 353 |
93 | 364 |
The Driven Dicke Model and Its Macroscopic | 367 |
Optical Bistability Effects in a Dye Ring | 127 |
Microwave Dispersive Bistability in a Confocal | 151 |
31 | 159 |
Bistability and Phase Transitions of Nuclear | 173 |
Transient Phenomena in Bistable Devices | 187 |
Analytic Description of Multiphoton Optical | 199 |
51 | 217 |
Active TwoBeam Optical Bistability | 221 |
Absorptive and Dispersive Bistability for | 237 |
The Role of Phases in the Transient Dynamics | 265 |
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