Coherent population trapping in multilevel laser-induced continuum structure system including cascade two-photon processes

Abstract

We have investigated the atomic coherent population trapping in a multilevel laser-induced continuum structure system including cascade two-photon processes, in which two sets of quasicontinua of excited levels to be modeled as the Bixon-Jortner quasicontinuum are laser-embedded into a previously structureless atomic continuum. The condition leading to the atomic coherent population trapping and the coherent population trapping state are given explicitly. And the effects of the Fano factors, the laser intensities and the detunings on the amount of population trapped in the atomic bound states and the populations distributed in the two sets of quasicontinua are also examined.