EFFECT OF FINITE BANDWIDTH ON REFRACTIVE-INDEX ENHANCEMENT AND LASING WITHOUT INVERSION

被引:54
作者
SULTANA, S
ZUBAIRY, MS
机构
[1] Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1994年 / 49卷 / 01期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.49.438
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We have studied the effect of finite bandwidth of the driving field on the enhancement of refractive index and lasing without inversion in a three-level atomic system in which partial coherence is introduced either in upper-level or lower-level doublet via a strong microwave driving field having finite bandwidth. We find that both phenomena are adversely affected by the phase fluctuations in the driving field. Further, there is a range of driving field detuning for which the refractive index is considerably enhanced with vanishing absorption.
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