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Journal of Modern Optics

The nonlinear effects over time evolution of a three-level atom confined in a single mode optical cavity

Babak Parvin, Rasoul Malekfar

Published Dec 10, 2012• 6 citations
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Abstract

A single atom is trapped in an optical cavity in the presence and absence of a nonlinear mirror corresponding to the nonlinear and linear regimes, respectively. The time evolutions of both systems are derived. The resultant equations are numerically solved by a fourth-order Runge–Kutta method. The effect of the nonlinear mirror over time evolution of the population inversion, the mean photon number and the second-order coherence function is investigated. It is shown that in the presence of the nonlinear effects, the time average of the population inversion is increased. As the time evolution proceeds, the mean photon number is decreased as well as the light exhibiting sub-Poissonian photon distributions. Under specific conditions and in a weak-driving limit, these systems can be well approximated by an effective two-level atom. The result of the calculations confirms the predictions of the two-level model.

DOI
10.1080/09500340.2012.752046

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The present study investigates the interaction of an equidistant three-level atom and a single-mode cavity field that has been initially prepared in a generalized coherent state. The atom–field interaction is considered to be, in general, intensity-dependent. We suppose that the nonlinearity of the initial generalized coherent state of the field and the intensity-dependent coupling between atom and field are distinctly chosen. Interestingly, an exact analytical solution for the time evolution of the state of atom–field system can be found in this general regime in terms of the nonlinearity functions. Finally, the presented formalism has been applied to a few known physical systems such as Gilmore–Perelomov and Barut–Girardello coherent states of SU(1,1) group, as well as a few special cases of interest. Mean photon number and atomic population inversion will be calculated, in addition to investigating particular non-classicality features such as revivals, sub-Poissonian statistics and quadratures squeezing of the obtained states of the entire system. Also, our results will be compared with some of the earlier works in this particular subject.
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