In relation to Seke's Comment, some remarks are presented concerning the qualitative agreement between the results obtained by the simple decoupling technique used by the authors and previous numerical calculation.
In this Comment we study the resonance fluorescence of a system of two atoms separated by an arbitrary distance R in an on-resonance laser field. The steady-state spectrum is calculated in the strong-field limit both for negligible and for non-negligible dipole-dipole interaction. The singlet state of the system is included throughout, even for small interatomic separations. We show that the so-called "scaling factor," or the enhancement of the integrated fluorescence by N atoms (above the expected factor of N), predicted in the literature by many authors, does not, in fact, exist.