Radiative collisions between atoms in a bichromatic field

Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan, Matthias Jakob, A.S. Sargsian

M. Ya. Agre, Л. П. Рапопорт

Valerii S. Lisitsa, Sergey I. Yakovlenko

Yuzhu Wang

The radiation force on a moving atom in a bichromatical travelling field is investigated in this paper. The relation of the atomic stimulated transition rate and the radiation force on the atom with its velocity in a bichromatical travelling wave is obtained by numberical calculation. Compared with that in a monochromatical travelling or a standing wave, the result in the bichromatical field have its own character, which is useful in the investigation of laser cooling of neutral atoms, selection of atomic velocity and atomic mometum diffusion.

Valery Alexandrovich Astapenko

Coherent phase control under the interaction between bichromatic radiation with multiple frequencies and quantum systems is the topic of the last time investigations both experimental and theoretical. This type of nonlinear optical control enables one to manipulate the characteristics of radiation processes by the change of the relative phase of bichromatic field. The present study is devoted to the theoretical analysis of the coherent control of two-level system behavior under bichromatic excitation in the frame of perturbation approach. The general expressions have been derived which are valid for any integer ratio n between the frequencies of monochromatic components of radiation. Obtained formulas describe the system characteristics as functions of relative phase of bichromatic field and other radiation parameters. Bichromatic excitation of Rubidium atom is considered as numerical example.

Valery Alexandrovich Astapenko

A new method for coherent phase control of excitation of atoms in a discrete spectrum under the action of bichromatic laser radiation with the frequency ratio 1 : 2 is analysed. An important feature of this control method is the presence of a electrostatic field, which removes the parity selection rule for one of the control channels. It is shown that for the phase difference between the monochromatic radiation components, corresponding to the destructive interference between channels, there exists the electrostatic field strength at which the excited atomic transition is `bleached'. It is proposed to use luminescence at the adjacent atomic transition for detecting the phase dependence of optical excitation.