SINGLE-ATOM OPTICAL BISTABILITY

被引：113

作者：

SAVAGE, CM ^{[1
]}

CARMICHAEL, HJ ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV ARKANSAS,DEPT PHYS,FAYETTEVILLE,AR 72701

来源：

IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 1988年 / 24卷 / 08期

关键词：

ATOMS -- Stability - MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - QUANTUM THEORY - RESONATORS; CAVITY;

D O I：

10.1109/3.7075

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Absorptive optical bistability is shown to exist for a single two-level atom inside a resonant optical cavity. Solutions for the quantum-mechanical density operator are obtained numerically for a parameter regime at the interface between the quantum limit, in which quantum-mechanical noise invalidates the semiclassical prediction of bistability, and the classical limit, in which quantum noise is a negligible perturbation on semiclassical results. Bimodal photon number distributions and Q functions are obtained, and two-state transition rates are calculated.

引用

页码：1495 / 1498

页数：4