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Sub-wavelength diameter tapered optical fibers surrounded by rubidium vapor can undergo a substantial decrease in transmission at high atomic densities due to the accumulation of rubidium atoms on the surface of the fiber. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 S. M. Hendrickson , T. B. Pittman , J. D. Franson

We report observations of novel dynamic behavior in resonantly-enhanced stimulated Raman scattering in Rb vapor. In particular, we demonstrate a dynamic hysteresis of the Raman scattered optical field in response to changes of the drive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Novikova , A. S. Zibrov , D. F. Phillips , A. Andre , R. L. Walsworth

We systematically investigate the bistable behavior and squeezing property of the librational mode of a levitated nonspherical nanoparticle trapped by laser beams. By expanding the librational potential to the forth order of the librational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Ke-Wen Xiao , Nan Zhao , Zhang-qi Yin

A coupled atom-molecule condensate with an intraspecies Feshbach resonance is employed to explore matter wave bistability both in the presence and in the absence of a unidirectional optical ring cavity. In particular, a set of conditions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Hong Y. Ling

We obtain optical instabilities in all-optical bistable systems arising from competing cooperative pathways at low input light levels. In particular for three-level atomic systems in the lambda and V configuration interacting with two…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-14 H. Aswath Babu , Harshawardhan Wanare

Optical bound state in the continuum (BIC) is characterized by infinitely high quality factor resulting in drastic enhancement of light-matter interaction phenomena. We study the optical response of a one-dimensional photonic crystal slab…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 S. D. Krasikov , A. A. Bogdanov , I. V. Iorsh

In this paper, we investigate a two-dimensional photonic array featuring a circular shape and an alternating gain and loss pattern. Our analysis revolves around determining the presence and resilience of optical ring modes with varying…

Bistability is a major mechanism for cellular decision making and usually results from positive feedback in biochemical control systems. Here we show theoretically that bistability between unbound and bound states of adhesion clusters…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2010-02-24 T. Erdmann , U. S. Schwarz

Optical nonreciprocity is important in photonic information processing to route the optical signal or prevent the reverse flow of noise. By adopting the strong nonlinearity associated with a few atoms in a strongly coupled cavity QED system…

We study the interplay between noise and a positive feedback mechanism in an excitable system that generates events. We show that such a system can exhibit a bistability in the dynamics of the event generation (states of low and high…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-22 Justus A. Kromer , Reynaldo D. Pinto , Benjamin Lindner , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We study a two-level dissipative non-equilibrium bosonic Rydberg system in an optical lattice, where multiple atoms can occupy a single site. The system is treated using two different approaches: solution of the master equation using a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-10 Suvechha Indu , Aniruddha Biswas , Raka Dasgupta

We predict a resonant enhancement of the nonlinear optical response of an interacting Rydberg gas under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency. The enhancement originates from a two-photon process which resonantly couples…

Using the z-scan technique, we have measured the self-induced absorptive and refractive nonlinear behavior of hot atomic rubidium vapor within the Doppler profile of the D2 line. We observe large nonlinear amplitude and phase effects with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. F. McCormick , D. R. Solli , R. Y. Chiao , J. M. Hickmann

It is well-known that some nonlinear phenomena such as strong photon blockade are hard to be observed in optomechanical system with current experimental technology. Here, we present a coherent feedback control strategy in which a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Yu-Long Liu , Zhong-Peng Liu , Jing Zhang , Yu-xi Liu

We analyze the behaviour of a coherent field driving a single mode optical cavity with one perfectly reflecting moving mirror and a partially reflecting fixed mirror, and show that this system's output exhibits optical bistability due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 B. M. Rodríguez-Lara , H. M. Moya-Cessa

We discuss a novel kind of nonlinear coupler with one channel filled with a negative index material (NIM). The opposite directionality of the phase velocity and the energy flow in the NIM channel facilitates an effective feedback mechanism…

In this article, we theoretically study the quantum statistical properties of the light transmitted through or reflected from an optical cavity, filled by an atomic medium with strong optical non-linearity induced by Rydberg-Rydberg van der…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 A. Grankin , E. Brion , E. Bimbard , R. Boddeda , I. Usmani , A. Ourjoumtsev , P. Grangier

We study the optical response of a binary system of identical atoms in which one of them is excited by an incoherent pump. %We study the properties of photon scattering, absorption and emission, together with the time evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 L. Acevedo , J. Sánchez-Cánovas , M. Donaire

The oscillatory response of nonlinear systems exhibits characteristic phenomena such as multistability, discontinuous jumps and hysteresis. These can be utilized in applications leading, e.g., to precise frequency measurement, mixing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Quirin P. Unterreithmeier , Thomas Faust , Jorg P. Kotthaus

This paper presents the nonlinear dynamics of laser cooled and trapped cesium atoms placed inside an optical cavity and interacting with a probe light beam slightly detuned from the 6S1/2(F=4) to 6P3/2(F=5) transition. The system exhibits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Lambrecht , E. Giacobino , J. M. Courty