Quenching of spontaneous emission via quantum interference Academic Article

abstract

• A four-level atom, driven by a coherent field, is considered. We show that under certain conditions complete quenching of spontaneous emission is possible. Hence the population inversion on some specific atomic transitions can be created using a very weak incoherent pumping. We investigate the physics of the effect using bare and dressed states. The proposed scheme may be useful, in principle, for generation of high-frequency and/or high power laser light. 1997 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Lee, H., Polynkin, P., Scully, M. O., & Zhu, S. Y.

citation count

• 156

complete list of authors

• Lee, H||Polynkin, P||Scully, MO||Zhu, SY

publication date

• June 1997

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review A (PRA)  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics
• 5108 Quantum Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.4454

start page

• 4454

end page

• 4465

volume

• 55

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreva.55.4454