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Bistability of the soliton amplitude in a ring resonator with nonlinearly absorbing media

A. A. Zabolotskii


Abstract: Perturbation theory is used in a study of the dynamics of an optical soliton in a ring resonator with a nonlinearly absorbing cell and external pumping. It is shown that the influence of impurity atoms with a saturable transition may give rise to a hysteretic dependence of the soliton amplitude at the exit from the resonator on the amplitude of a monochromatic pump field.

UDC: 621.373.826

PACS: 42.65.Pc, 42.65.Tg, 42.65.Sf, 42.60.Da, 42.65.Re

Received: 31.07.1985

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1986, 16:8, 1098–1100

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