%0 Journal Article
%T Quantum Popov robust stability analysis of an optical cavity containing a saturated Kerr medium
%A Ian R. Petersen
%J Mathematics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%X This paper applies results on the robust stability of nonlinear quantum systems to a system consisting an optical cavity containing a saturated Kerr medium. The system is characterized by a Hamiltonian operator which contains a non-quadratic term involving a quartic function of the annihilation and creation operators. A saturated version of the Kerr nonlinearity leads to a sector bounded nonlinearity which enables a quantum small gain theorem to be applied to this system in order to analyze its stability. Also, a non-quadratic version of a quantum Popov stability criterion is presented and applied to analyze the stability of this system.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5384v1