title: Stark effect in dispersive optical bistability.
abstract: Stark terms associated with nonresonant transitions are shown to have important consequences when they are incorporated into the theory of dispersive optical bistability for a ring cavity. The perturbing effects of the nonresonant transitions should be detectable in an experiment.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hermann
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Carmichael