Physical Review A

Saturation of two-level atoms in chaotic fields

P. Zoller

Published Dec 1, 1979• 31 citations

Abstract

Exact solutions are presented for the equations describing the stationary population of a two-level atom in a nonmonochromatic ideal chaotic field. The dependence of the excited-state population on the Rabi frequency, bandwidth of the field, spontaneous decay, and detuning is studied and compared with the results obtained for phase-diffusing laser light. The validity of the decorrelation approximation is also investigated.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.20.2420

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