Semiclassical four-level single-atom laser

被引:21
作者
An, KW
Feld, MS
机构
[1] George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1997年 / 56卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.56.1662
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The recent single-atom microlaser experiment [K. An et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 3375 (1994)], in which a stream of inverted two-level atoms is injected into an ultrahigh Q cavity, can be understood in the context of a semiclassical four-level laser model. Transit time broadening due to short atom-cavity interaction time effectively introduces nonradiative decay of the two levels in the model. The steady-state solution of semiclassical photon and atom rate equations for the intracavity mean photon number versus the intracavity atom number provides a good fit to the experimental data.
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页码:1662 / 1665
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