A composite system consisting of a degenerate optical parametric oscillator （DOPO） and N two-level atoms interacting with a broadband squeezed vacuum （SV） centred at frequency cas and an input monochromatic pumping field with a frequency ωp is analysed. The corresponding explicit analytical steady-state solutions in the central mode ωp = ωs are derived, and the result displays optical bistability （OB）. In addition, the influence of the broadband SV on the bistable behaviour is analysed in detail.
