Theory of dressed-state lasers. III. Pump-depletion effects

Journal Article · Sun Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1991 · Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.44.7746· OSTI ID:5521874

Zakrzewski, J ^[1]; Lewenstein, M ^[2]; Mossberg, T W ^[3]

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1. Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Krakow (Poland)
2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-668 Warsaw (Poland)
3. Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 (United States)

We present further developments in the theory of dressed-state lasers, i.e., lasers that operate on inverted transitions between the dressed states of a coupled atom-field system. We take into account the quantum character of the driving field, and consider the effect of its depletion. We derive effective Hamiltonians appropriate for the analysis of both one- and two-photon dressed-state lasers, and then discuss the stability and statistics of such lasers. We show that pump-depletion effects tend to reduce the degree of squeezing found in dressed-state-laser output while simultaneously introducing small squeezing effects into the depleted pump field.

• OSTI ID: 5521874
• Journal Information: Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States) Vol. 44:11; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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