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The Maxwell-Bloch equations for the steady state, with boundary conditions for a Fabry-Perot cavity, are integrated. In the mean-field approximation, the transmittivity characteristic, obtained for the general case of absorptive-dispersive optical bistability, leads to the Agrawall-Carmichael characteristic for a small atomic detuning and to the McCall characteristic for pure-dispersive optical bistability. The applicability of this theory in the dominant-dispersive case is discussed.
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Popescu, I.M., Stefanescu, E.N., Sterian, P.E. (1986). The Applicability of the Mean Field Method in the Optical Bistability. In: Prokhorov, A.M., Ursu, I. (eds) Trends in Quantum Electronics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10624-2_15
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