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We report on systematic studies of the static and dynamic behavior of intensity and polarization of the light transmitted by a sodium-filled Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity. The device displays a rich variety of phenomena, including optical bistability, tristablity, pitchfork bifurcation, as well as intrinsic oscillations. The behavior can be traced back to the simultaneous presence of Zeeman pumping and hyperfine pumping in the sodium ground state, combined with velocity selective hole-burning effects.
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Giusfredi, G., Cecchi, S., Petriella, E., Salieri, P., Arecchi, F.T. (1987). Transmission Properties of a Sodium-Filled Fabry-Perot Resonator. In: Arecchi, F.T., Harrison, R.G. (eds) Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71708-6_10
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