Quasi-exactly solvable models in nonlinear optics

Abstract

We study a large class of models with an arbitrary (finite) number of degrees of freedom, described by Hamiltonians which are polynomial in bosonic creation and annihilation operators, and including as particular cases nth harmonic generation and photon cascades. For each model, we construct a complete set of commuting integrals of motion of the Hamiltonian, fully characterize the common eigenspaces of the integrals of motion and show that the action of the Hamiltonian on these common eigenspaces can be represented by a quasiexactly solvable reduced Hamiltonian, whose expression in terms of the usual generators of sl_2 is computed explicitly.