Nonzero Detuning Research Articles

Resonance fluorescence of a two-level atom in an off-resonance squeezed vacuum

The authors present analytical and numerical results for resonance fluorescence produced by a two-level atom damped by a broad-band squeezed vacuum. Previous theoretical analyses of this model have assumed that the laser frequency and the carrier frequency of the squeezed vacuum are equal. The authors introduce a non-zero detuning between the laser frequency and the carrier frequency while maintaining resonance between the laser frequency and atomic resonance. In the absence of the driving field there is a squeezing threshold: above threshold the decay rate of the atomic polarization can be reduced, and below threshold a squeezing-induced two peak spectrum and frequency shift, which is analogous to the Bloch-Siegert shift, are predicted. In the presence of the driving field, the spectrum is asymmetric for Rabi frequencies smaller or comparable to the detuning of the squeezed vacuum. A symmetric spectrum is obtained for large Rabi frequencies. An interpretation is predicted by means of a dressed-state analysis. The authors find that for not too large Rabi frequencies a remarkably large population inversion can be induced in the dressed states, even at exact resonance of the driving field, provided that the laser frequency and carrier frequency are detuned. Moreover, for detection times larger than the inverse detuning, the spectrum is insensitive to the phase between the driving field and the squeezed vacuum, in marked contrast to the case of no detuning.

An Extended Model of Double Optical Resonance

Abstract A ladder-type model of double optical resonance, extended by allowing some internal structure for the middle level, is considered and its classical analogue is given. Ionization and photoelectron energy spectra from such a model with singlet, doublet and triplet middle-level structures are evaluated numerically for a wide range of laser pulse intensities and durations. The topics of most interest are peak narrowing by extremely strong upper-level ionization damping, reversal of the peak-height asymmetry by increasing lower-resonance strength at non-zero upper-resonance detuning, and number-of-peak reduction and flattening of the spectrum by shortening of the atom-photon interaction time. When applied to natural barium, this model gives results in good agreement with experiment.

Coherent dynamics and complete population depletion of a special three-level quantum system.

By constructing a vector model we study the coherent dynamics of a special three-level quantum system--one with equal detunings and equal Rabi frequencies. This three-level problem can be fully related to a two-level problem. We find that complete population depletion can be achieved even in the case of constant nonzero detunings when the three-level system is prepared initially in the common level of the two transitions. Complete population depletion with constant detunings can also occur in other odd-number multilevel systems. An explanation in terms of an equivalent resonant excitation is presented.

Instabilities in inhomogeneously broadened single-mode lasers

We provide a linear stability analysis of the steady state of an inhomogeneously broadened single-mode ring laser. Our treatment generalizes the well-known results obtained by Haken and collaborators in the case of homogeneous broadening. With the selection of a lorentzian inhomogeneous lineshape, we obtain explicit results both for zero and non-zero detuning between the empty cavity mode and the center frequency of the atomic profile.