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Physical Review A

Control of spontaneous emission from a coherently driven four-level atom

Jin‐Hui Wu, Aijun Li, Yue Ding, Yan-Chun Zhao, Jin-Yue Gao

Published Aug 4, 2005• 113 citations
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Abstract

We study the spontaneous-emission properties of a coherently driven four-level atom, and show a few interesting phenomena such as fluorescence quenching, spectral-line narrowing, spectral-line enhancement, and spectral-line elimination. These phenomena can be observed in experiment since the rigorous condition of near-degenerate levels with nonorthogonal dipole moments is not required here. Qualitatively, these phenomena can be attributed to the quantum interference between competitive spontaneous-decay channels in the bare-state picture or the spontaneously generated coherence between two close-lying levels in the dressed-state picture.

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10.1103/physreva.72.023802

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