Amplification without inversion based on field-dependent relaxation in strongly driven three-level atoms Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A study is carried out to clarify the influence of the field-induced modification of relaxation rates on the amplification without inversion (AWI) conditions in different three-level systems driven by a strong coherent field on the low-frequency (LF) transition and probed by mono- or bichromatic field at the optical transitions. It is demonstrated that the origin of probe-field gain and conditions of AWI is essentially different from the traditional results. A novel mechanism of AWI is also proposed. Finally, it is shown that the efficiency of this mechanism is enhanced due to the parametric interaction of the probe field components.

author list (cited authors)

  • Eroukhimova, M., Radeonychev, Y. V., & Kocharovskaya, O

complete list of authors

  • Eroukhimova, M||Radeonychev, YV||Kocharovskaya, O

publication date

  • January 1999