Passage Time Statistics and Scaling Laws in LSA Bistable Regimes

F. Papoff, D. Dangoisse, A. Fioretti, E. Arimondo, P. Colet, and M. San Miguel

in Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Systems, Optical Society of America Proc., Eds. N.B. Abraham, E. Garmire and P.Mandel, 7, 293-296 (1991).

The relaxation from a marginal state has been investigated in presence of pump external noise. The experimental results have been fitted through a one dimensional theory for a pitchfork bifurcation with additive noise.

Pere Colet
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