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Strongly-Driven One-Atom Laser

Pavel Lougovski, Federico Casagrande, ALFREDO LULLI, E. Solano

Published Feb 6, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose the implementation of a strongly-driven one-atom laser, based on the off-resonant interaction of a three-level atom in $\\Lambda$-configuration with a single cavity mode and three laser fields. We show that the system can be described equivalently by a two-level atom coupled to the cavity and driven by a strong effective coherent field, yielding Schr\\"odinger cat states. The effective dynamics can be solved exactly, including a thermal field bath, allowing an analytical description of field statistics and entanglement properties, as well as of the environment-induced decoherence of atom-field pure states. Finally, we propose a way to monitor the decoherence of these states by measuring atomic populations and confirm the validity of our model through full numerical solutions.

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