Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Input and output in damped quantum systems II Methods in non-white-noise situations and application to inhibition of atomic phase decays

Crispin W. Gardiner, Matthew J. Collett, A. S. Parkins

Published Oct 1, 1987• 102 citations

Abstract

A near-white-noise input–output formalism is developed that does not require white-noise assumptions. In particular, correlation formulas for outputs are developed, which enables account to be taken of reflections of near-white-noise inputs. The methods are applied to the inhibition of atomic phase decays by squeezed light from a degenerate parametric amplifier incident upon a two-level atom, and modifications from previous work carried out in the extreme-white-noise limit are computed.

DOI: 10.1364/josab.4.001683

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