Physical Review A

Lasing without inversion in a V system due to trapping of modified atomic states

Weihan Tan, Weiping Lu, Robert G. Harrison

Published Oct 1, 1992• 17 citations

Abstract

We analyze lasing without inversion in a V system driven by a single optical field. This is shown to depend on the relaxation rates and photon degeneracy parameters of the system and occurs for a broad range of lasing intensities. The physical mechanism is explained in terms of trapping of the modified ground state, which is coherently split by the optical pump field.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.46.r3613

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