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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Theory of Cooperative Cascade Emission. II. Nonlinear Evolution

Kensuke S. Ikeda, Jumpei Okada, Masahiro Matsuoka

Published May 1, 1980• 14 citations
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Abstract

The characteristics of the cooperative cascade emission is studied by taking into account of the nonlinearity due to depopulation. It is shown that the emitted radiation exhibits considerably different behaviors in three regimes of the atomic number density. In the lowest density regime the radiation is essentially a quasi-stationary amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), in the intermediate one it becomes superradiant, and in the highest one it shows a new cooperative behavior peculiar to the cascade system. By using the present theory the experimental results recently observed in Li vapour is explained. It is also shown that the present theory describes the two-level cooperative emission as a specific limiting case.

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.48.1646

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We investigate the emergence of cooperative radiation phenomena in ensembles of two-level atoms coupled to a lossy resonant cavity beyond the Markovian and mean-field approximations. By deriving a complete analytical solution for the two-emitter case and employing a numerically exact method for larger ensembles, we characterize the full transition from Markovian to non-Markovian collective dynamics for systems of up to 10310^3103 emitters. Our results reveal three distinct regimes: a Markovian phase exhibiting the standard superradiant burst, a non-Markovian phase featuring spontaneous superabsorption of the emitted field, and a critical regime marked by pulsed collective emission. We show that the critical spectral width separating these behaviors increases monotonically with the number of emitters, demonstrating that environmental memory effects can be enhanced by cooperativity. Finally, we find that the superradiant scaling of the peak intensity progressively degrades with increasing system size, approaching a subquadratic law in the limit of a perfect cavity. In this regime, spontaneous superabsorption emerges as a distinct manifestation of non-Markovian cooperativity.
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