Physical Review A

Nonresonant interaction of a three-level atom with cavity fields. III. Photon-number probabilities and fluctuations

D. L. Lin, Xiao-shen Li, Yue-nan Peng

Published Feb 1, 1989• 17 citations

Abstract

We study the photon statistics in the interaction of a three-level atom with cavity fields of arbitrary detunings. A number of new features of photon-number distributions and fluctuations are found and discussed. The possibility of sub-Poissonian and antibunching effects is also discussed.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.39.1933

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