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Physical Review A

Coherent two-photon transitions in Rydberg atoms in a cavity with finiteQ

Ravinder Rupchand Puri, G. S. Agarwal

Published May 1, 1988• 67 citations
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Abstract

The effects of the cavity damping on the phenomenon of collapse and revival in the population inversion of an atom in a two-photon process are investigated by using the dressed-atom approximation. Explicit results are given for a field initially in either a coherent or a two-photon coherent state. The cavity damping is expected to have more significant effects on two-photon transitions because the vacuum-field Rabi frequency for two-photon transitions is smaller than that for single-photon transitions.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.37.3879

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