Laser Physics

Lasing and phase transition in atomic system with dressed states

Igor Yu. Chestnov, A. P. Alodjants, Sergei M Arakelyan

Published May 29, 2014• 0 citations

Abstract

The problem of phase transitions in the system of high-density gas of two-level atoms non-resonantly interacting with a pump field in the presence of optical collisions (OCs) and placed in the cavity is studied. The OCs are considered in the framework of thermalization of atomic dressed state (DS) population. For the case of a strong atom-field coupling condition we analyze the problem of thermodynamic equilibrium superradiant phase transition for the order parameter representing real amplitude of cavity mode and taking place as a result of the atomic DS thermalization process. At the same time such a transition can be connected with condensed (coherent) properties of low branch DS-polaritons occurring in the cavity. Various aspects of non-equilibrium phase transition to laser field generation by using atomic DS levels are studied in detail. It is important that for positive atom-light detuning DS lasing can be obtained in the presence of quasi-equilibrium DS population that corresponds to a true two-level atomic system with inversion in perturbative limit.

DOI: 10.1088/1054-660x/24/7/074006

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