Studies on the Bistability of a Dissipative Medium Inside a Resonator

Abstract

Through the differential equation describing the behavior of the
nonlinear polarization of a medium with respect to the incident field, the
Maxwell field equations and the boundary conditions of the field inside a
resonator. Relation between the output field and the incident field, describing
bistability phenomena, is obtained .The effect of the spectral profile of the
incident field and its spectral half width on the bistability phenomena is also
studied.