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Physical Review A

Population inversion in two-level systems possessing permanent dipoles

Mihai Macovei, Mayank Mishra, Christoph H. Keitel

Published Jul 27, 2015• 22 citations
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Abstract

Bare-state population inversion is demonstrated in a two-level system with all dipole matrix elements nonzero. A laser field is resonantly driving the sample, whereas a second weaker and lower frequency coherent field additionally pumps it near resonance with the dynamically Stark-splitted states. Due to the existence of differing permanent dipole moments in the excited and ground bare states, quantum coherences among the involved dressed states are induced, leading to inversion in the steady state. Furthermore, large refractive indices are feasible, as well as the determination of the diagonal matrix elements via the absorption or emission spectra. The results apply to available biomolecular, spin, or asymmetric quantum dot systems.

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10.1103/physreva.92.013846

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Squeezing in resonance fluorescence processes of a laser-pumped molecule possessing permanent dipoles is shown. A weak low-frequency coherent field pumps the sample near resonance with the dynamically Stark-splitting states induced by a second stronger laser field driving the main two-level transition. The fluorescence spectrum consists of three coherently scattered spectral lines and up to nine incoherently scattered spectral lines. Compared with a similar problem yet in the absence of permanent dipoles, aditional squeezing regions are found.
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A dressed-state study of lasing without population inversion from a three-level atom interacting with a bichromatic laser field in the ladder configuration is being formulated. The system is allowed to be dressed by both laser-field photons (double dressing). The temporal behavior of the system under consideration is being explored numerically. Although the use of dressed-basis density matrix equations introduces major complexity into the equations, this procedure has crucial importance to the understanding of the atomic spectrum and the underlying physics of the processes involved. The system is found to possess a gain without population inversion, as well as a regular gain with inversion for various transitions, both in the transient and steady-state regimes. Enhancement of the refractive index accompanied by vanishingly small absorption was also found. The frequency response of various transitions is explored via numerical Fourier analysis. Some transitions are found to exhibit a dispersion-like line shape, clear evidence of a quantum-coherent interference effect. The spectrum consists of two distinct quintets centered about the coupling and probe-laser frequencies. The spectral features consisting of each quintet are located symmetrically (at resonance conditions only) around the line center at positions shifted from the center by the generalized Rabi and double Rabi frequencies.