arXiv:quant-ph/0409148 · Physical Review Letters

Coherent Inelastic Backscattering of Intense Laser Light by Cold Atoms

Vyacheslav Shatokhin, Cord Axel Müller, Andreas Buchleitner

Published Feb 2, 2005• 46 citations

Abstract

We present a nonperturbative treatment of coherent backscattering of intense laser light from cold atoms and predict a nonvanishing backscattering signal even at very large intensities, due to the constructive (self-)interference of inelastically scattered photons.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.043603

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