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Title: Four-level superradiant laser with full atomic cooperativity

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656 (Japan)
  2. Institute of Quantum Electronics and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Network, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)

We investigate a four-level superradiant laser whose intensity is proportional to N{sup 2} and whose linewidth scales as 1/N{sup 2}. In the absence of spontaneous emissions, we derive the stationary solutions of the atomic full cooperativity, analyze their stabilities, and find the corresponding irreducible representation based on group U(4). We also investigate the spectra of the phase and amplitude fluctuations of the fields inside and outside the cavity and find that the amplitude fluctuations of the output fields cannot be squeezed in the low-frequency limit, which is completely different from the three-level superradiant laser system. Finally, we consider the stationary solutions corresponding to the partial cooperativity due to the symmetry breaking of U(4) induced by the atomic spontaneous emissions.

OSTI ID:
21408897
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 81, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053809; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English