Lasing without inversion: counterintuitive population dynamics in the transient regime. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We explore a three-level Lambda scheme to demonstrate that the phenomenon of lasing without inversion (LWI) can be observed in the transient regime. We demonstrate that the pure LWI contribution to the gain of a probe field is distinct from both the resonant absorption (or gain) and the coherent Raman gain (or absorption) by choosing specific initial populations in the dressed-state basis. The suppression of the non-LWI (resonant and Raman) processes is followed by the "rich get richer" (capitalistic) effect for the ground-state population dynamics: Initially, the more populated ground state becomes even more populated. The conditions for the observation of the effect are specified.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Kilin, S. Y., Kapale, K. T., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

  • 44

complete list of authors

  • Kilin, S Ya||Kapale, Kishore T||Scully, Marlan O

publication date

  • May 2008