ACTA PHOTONICA SINICA
Effect of Incoherent Pumping on Phase-dependent Absorption Property of Atomic Systems
Fan Xi-jun
Abstract
In the open and closed ladder systems with vacuum induced coherence,it is found that the relative phase between the probe and driving fields has an important manipulation role on the absorption property,while the incoherent pumping has a considerable effect on the phase-dependent absorption property.In both systems,by adjusting the incoherent pumping the switching from absorption to gain and from lasing with inversion to lasing without inversion can be realized and the largest inversionless gain can be gotten.However,when the incoherent pumping is absent,for any value of the relative phase,lasing without inversion still can not be obtained in the closed system but it is able in the open system;and in the open system,for suitable values of the relative phase,inversionless gain gotten when the incoherent pumping is absent is obviously larger than that obtained when the incoherent pumping presents.