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Physical Review A

Time-dependent spectra of a strongly driven three-level atom

Arundhati S. Jayarao, S. V. Lawande, Richard D’Souza

Published Apr 1, 1989• 12 citations
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Abstract

Time-dependent features of the fluorescence radiation from a strongly driven three-level atom in a Raman configuration are studied applying the Eberly-W\'odkiewicz counting-rate definition of the spectrum. Using our earlier formalism, where we assume that one or both of the driving fields are intense, we obtain analytical expressions for the time-dependent fluorescence spectra. We have also studied the influence on the transient spectrum of the initial preparation of the atom in three different dressed states.

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10.1103/physreva.39.3464

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The time-dependent fluorescence spectrum from a strongly driven two-level atom damped by a broadband-squeezed vacuum is obtained analytically using the counting-rate definition of Eberly and Wodkiewicz [J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 1252 (1977)] and employing the high-field approximation. The spectrum shows considerable modifications compared to the corresponding time-dependent spectrum in a normal vacuum. It is now dependent on the relative phase between the squeezed vacuum field and the coherent driving field. In particular, the time development of the central peak of the Mollow triplet (which is known to show a phase-dependent linewidth in the steady state) is discussed. The effects of detuning on the spectrum are also presented.
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We generalize our earlier formalism to treat the effects of both the finite-bandwidth excitations and finite arbitrary detunings, on the fluorescent spectra and second-order intensity correlation functions in optical double resonance. It is assumed that the bandwidth arises from the phase and/or amplitude fluctuations in the fields driving a three-level atom in cascade configuration. Under the conditions that one or both of these fields are intense, secular approximation and the theory of multiplicative stochastic processes are invoked to derive a Markovian master equation for the atomic-density operator averaged over both phase and amplitude. The quantum regression theorem is used to derive analytical expressions for the fluorescent spectra and the second-order intensity correlation functions which explicitly display the effects due to detunings and fluctuations.