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Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference

Transmission spectra of an atom cavity

TAN WEI-HAN, Renhong Liu

Published May 12, 1991• 0 citations
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Abstract

A composite atom-cavity system exhibits complex behavior with respect to spontaneous emission, resonance fluorescence, and transmission spectra.1–3 An early investigation1 showed that for an atom in an ideal cavity, the spontaneous-emission spectra show a doublet splitting in the case of very weak excitation. This splitting, which arises from vacuum-field Rabi oscillation, is regarded as an inherently quantum phenomenon.1,2 However, recent experiments and theoretical analyses have demonstrated that the multiatom vacuum Rabi splitting may be regarded as a feature of linear dispersion theory.3 This approach is dramatically different from the one employed in QED descriptions of the problem.

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The two peaks of the vacuum Rabi splitting behave like simple harmonic oscillators for very weak excitation. The transmission spectrum of a cavity filled with two-level atoms shows this doublet at low values of the driving intensity, but only a single peak at high values. The evolution from a doublet to a singlet is governed by the anharmonic response of the system as the driving intensity increases. The anharmonicity can grow to a point where frequency hysteresis appears in the transmission spectrum. This work investigates theoretically with a semiclassical model the transition from the doublet into the singlet. The stability of the different solutions is analysed as the parameters of atomic and cavity detuning vary. The model is extended to include the experimentally relevant transverse profile of the cavity mode as well as the standing wave structure of the field.
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