Excitability of excitons and biexcitons in a ring cavity

Tronciu, VZ; Abram, RA

Abstract

We discuss the excitable behavior of excitons and biexcitons in a nonlinear optical ring cavity. The nonlinearity is due to the process of the creation of biexcitons by photon-assisted conversion of excitons. In the bifurcation analysis a region where a saddle point is close to an equilibrium has been found. In this region the system shows excitability. It is shown that the mechanism of the excitable behavior of excitons and biexcitons in a ring cavity is different from that of two-level atoms in the same system. The possible applications of an excitable ring cavity are discussed.

Citation

Tronciu, V., & Abram, R. (2002). Excitability of excitons and biexcitons in a ring cavity. Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 65(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.65.026616

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2002
• Deposit Date: Dec 7, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 8, 2010
• Journal: Physical review . E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
• Print ISSN: 1539-3755
• Electronic ISSN: 1550-2376
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 2
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.65.026616
• Keywords: Solitons, Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems, Optical instabilities, Optical chaos and complexity, Optical spatio-temporal dynamics.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1596412
• Publisher URL: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002PhRvE..65b6616T&db_key=INST