The effect of radio frequency on the optical bistability in Pr3+: Y2SiO5 crystal

Abstract

We investigated theoretically the effect of an additional radio-frequency (rf) laser on the optical bistability (OB) behavior of the Pr[Formula: see text]: Y2SiO5 crystal. It is demonstrated that the rf field induces the OB behavior to the output of the system. It is shown that such OB behavior can be controlled by the intensity of either rf or coupling field.