Statistical fluctuations in optical bistability induced by shot noise
Abstract
Using a hybrid bistable optical device with a large photon shot noise, fluctuations and spontaneous transitions between the two states have been observed. The experimental results are compared with various discrete and exact models. Although the solution to the problem is not exact, good agreement is found with all the approximate models if one allows the counting rates to be adjustable.
- Publication:
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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- September 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1109/JQE.1985.1072849
- Bibcode:
- 1985IJQE...21.1441M
- Keywords:
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- Electro-Optics;
- Optical Bistability;
- Shot Noise;
- Eigenvalues;
- Fokker-Planck Equation;
- Histograms;
- Photons;
- Optics