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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Resonant scattering of monochromatic light in gases

David L. Huber

Published Oct 1, 1968• 2 citations
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Abstract

The frequency dependence of the differential cross section characterizing the resonant scattering of photons by the atoms of a dilute gas has been investigated. It is supposed that the scatterers are sufficiently dispersed so that interference between different scatterers may be neglected. Elastic collisions between the scatterers and the atoms of a buffer gas are treated in the impact approximation. A Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of velocities is assumed. Analytic expressions for the cross section are obtained in the limits natural width\ggcollision width\ggDoppler width, Doppler width\ggnatural width\ggcollision width, and collision width\ggnatural width\ggDoppler width. The significance of these results is discussed.

DOI
10.1109/jqe.1968.1074943

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The resonant scattering of monochromatic light in gases is analyzed. Explicit expressions for the differential cross section are obtained in the limits (Doppler width) \ensuremath{\gg} (natural width) \ensuremath{\gg} (collision width) and (collision width) \ensuremath{\gg} (natural width) \ensuremath{\gg} (Doppler width). In the former limit, the frequency distribution of scattered light is narrowed in the forward and backward directions, and has the full absorption width for right-angle scattering. In the collision-dominated limit, the cross section separates into a coherent and a fluorescent component. The motion of the atoms broadens the $\ensuremath{\delta}$ function distribution characterizing coherent scattering from a stationary target. The interference between light scattered by different atoms is assessed.
A theory of resonant light scattering from two level atoms in a gas is developed for an arbitrarily strong pump field. The Doppler effect and two body foreign gas collisions are considered. Elastic, inelastic (upward and downward), and the velocity changing collisions are retained in the general formulation. The impact approximation is not made, and the expressions for all (field dependent) collision rates are generated internally. Particular attention is paid to the lower state interaction, and a more complete parameterization of the theory is achieved. The general theory is non-Markovian and the quantum regression theorem is not used; it reduces to existing theories in special cases. It is shown that the coherent scattering is not a general property of the system if the lower state interaction is present; the "coherent" component acquires a small, but nonzero, width in the strong field region. This width could provide information about some new collision parameters.
The theory of the collisional and radiative relaxation of an atom perturbed by foreign-gas atoms in the presence of an intense monochromatic laser beam is developed. The spatial degeneracy of the levels and the reorientation effects of the collisions are included. The impact approximation is not made, but the Doppler effect is neglected. The spectrum of the fluorescent and scattered light is obtained from an eigenvalue problem in Liouville space using the dressed-atom approach and rotationally irreducible tensors. Minimal symmetry-adapted bases in Liouville space are constructed for linear, circular and elliptical incident polarisation. The method is illustrated for S 0 -P 1 transitions.
The authors apply the dressed-atom model to evaluate the spectrum of nearly resonant light scattering from atoms in a perturber gas. The intensity of the monochromatic incident light may be sufficiently high to cause saturation effects, and the detuning from resonance may be large enough to invalidate the impact limit. The results for a two-state or a three-state atom, which are valid in the limit that the lines in the scattered spectrum are well separated, generalise previous work that assumed either the impact or the low-intensity limit.
The quantum optical response of high-density ultracold atomic systems is important to a wide range of fundamentally and technically important physical processes. We present here a microscopic analysis of the light scattering on such a system and compare it with a corresponding description based on macroscopic Maxwell theory. Results are discussed in the context of the spectral resonance structure of the scattering cross section, the time-dependent response under a range of conditions, and evolution of these quantities as the atomic density is varied. For high atomic densities, the microscopic theoretical treatment reveals a distributed and configuration-dependent narrow resonance structure. This structure is attributed to microcavity spatial structures associated with the dense and ultracold atomic gases.