Physical Review A

Atomic excitation by a multimode symmetric laser

Marvin H. Mittleman

Published Jul 1, 1985• 10 citations

Abstract

The excitation of an atom by a near-resonant-symmetric mode-locked multimode laser is solved in the two-state rotating-wave approximation. An analytic expression of an unusual new form of resonance is found and a simple experiment which could be used to observe the effect is suggested.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.32.276

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