PHOTON-STATISTICS DEPENDENCE OF SINGLE-ATOM ABSORPTION

被引:48
作者
KOCHAN, P
CARMICHAEL, HJ
机构
[1] UNIV OREGON, INST THEORET SCI, EUGENE, OR 97403 USA
[2] UNIV WAIKATO, DEPT PHYS, HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1994年 / 50卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.50.1700
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We use the theory of cascaded open systems to calculate the transmitted photon flux for a weak beam of photons focused onto a single, resonant two-state atom in the narrow-bandwidth limit. We study the dependence of the transmitted flux on the quantum statistics of the incident light. Sources of coherent, chaotic, squeezed, antibunched chaotic, and antibunched coherent light are considered. We find that the second-order correlation function and frequency dependence in the wings of the spectrum of the incident light must be-considered to explain the results.
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页码:1700 / 1709
页数:10
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