Electromagnetically induced transparency inside the laser cavity: Switch between first-order and second-order phase transitions Academic Article

abstract

• We investigate the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency inside a laser cavity. By changing the intensity of an external drive field, we can control the absorption to the laser field. A semiclassical analysis shows that the system undergoes a switch between first-order and second-order phase transitions. Around the tricritical point there could be a second-order phase transition followed by a first-order phase transition. 2008 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Zubairy, Muhammad

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

• Sun, Q., Shahriar, M. S., & Zubairy, M. S.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Sun, Qingqing||Shahriar, M Selim||Zubairy, M Suhail

publication date

• July 2008

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  Journal

keywords

• Absorption
• Analogy
• Bistability
• Gas-laser
• Nonlinear
• Optically Bistable Laser
• Optics
• Physics
• Pulsed Operations
• Quantum-theory
• Saturable Absorber
• Thermal Equilibrium
• Threshold

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.013805

URI

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.013805

start page

• 013805

volume

• 78

issue

• 1