%0 Journal Article
%A Malyshev, Andrey
%T Condition for resonant optical bistability
%D 2012
%@ 1050-2947
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42781
%X We address a two-level system in an environment interacting with an electromagnetic field in the dipole approximation. The resonant optical bistability induced by local-field effects is studied by considering the relationship between the population difference and the excitation field. The diversity of various systems is included by accounting for system self-action via the surface part of Green's dyadic in the general form. The bistability condition and the exact solution of the steady-state optical Bloch equations at the absolute bistability threshold are derived analytically.
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