Analytic solution and pulse area theorem for three-level atoms Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 us. Published by the American Physical Society. We report an analytic solution for a three-level atom driven by arbitrary time-dependent electromagnetic pulses. In particular, we consider far-detuned driving pulses and show an excellent match between our analytic result and the numerical simulations. We use our solution to derive a pulse area theorem for three-level V and systems without making the rotating wave approximation. Formulated as an energy conservation law, this pulse area theorem can be used to understand pulse propagation through three-level media.

authors

• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

altmetric score

• 0.75

author list (cited authors)

• Shchedrin, G., O'Brien, C., Rostovtsev, Y., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 19

complete list of authors

• Shchedrin, Gavriil||O'Brien, Chris||Rostovtsev, Yuri||Scully, Marlan O

publication date

• December 2015

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.063815

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/181966

start page

• 063815

volume

• 92

issue

• 6