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Pure and Applied Chemistry

Macroscopic optical coherence phenomena

Erwin Louis Hahn

Published Jan 1, 1972• 0 citations
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Abstract

Principles of coherent radiation are reviewed as they apply to the coherent interaction between two quantum Ievel atomic oscillators and classical radiation fields.The equivalence between electric dipole and magnetic dipole interactions is outlined for macroscopic systems.The power mechanism for formation of coherent signals is briefly calculated.The self-induced transparency mechanism and area-theorem connected with this mechanism serves as a means of predicting properties of photon echoes.It is stressed that when the classical field is a self-consistent solution to both the equations of the density matrix and Maxwell's equations a reaction field need not be added.

DOI
10.1351/pac197232010171

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