Abstract

The effect of a driving or pump field on the emission and absorption line-shape functions for an atom is discussed. The pump field is assumed to oscillate at a frequency near the resonance frequency for transitions between a single pair of atomic states, and transitions between one of these states and any other state of the atom are analyzed. The pump field is treated classically, and atomic relaxation is treated in general terms. The emission and absorption line-shape function (the latter is defined as the rate of absorption of energy from a weak signal field, applied in addition to the pump field, as a function of the signal-field frequency) are found by evaluating the relevant two-time atomic correlation functions in the Markoff approximation. In the limit of high pump-field intensity, both the absorption and the emission spectra are doubly peaked at frequencies which differ from the usual resonance frequency by $\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\frac{1}{2} \ensuremath{\Omega}$, where $\ensuremath{\Omega}$ is the frequency of the pump-field-induced oscillations in the populations of the two strongly coupled states. The absorption and the emission spectra are represented by essentially the same function in the limit of high pump-field intensity, as they are also in the limit of vanishing pump-field intensity. For intermediate pump-field intensities, however, the two functions are quite different in form, and no simple proportionality exists between them.

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