Effective two-level Maxwell-Bloch formalism and coherent pulse propagation in a driven three-level medium Academic Article

abstract

• An effective two-level Maxwell-Bloch formalism is developed to describe various time-dependent phenomena in a three-level V-type system. The Maxwell-Bloch equations govern the temporal evolution of a probe field while a strong driving field is applied on the adjacent transition. The main assumption adopted throughout the paper is that the spontaneous decay rate on the coherently driven transition exceeds the decay rate on the probe transition as well as inverse time variations of both pulses. It is shown that the probe pulse interacts with such a medium in a manner similar to that in a self-induced transparency. An amplification without inversion of a relatively short probe pulse while propagating through an optically thick atomic medium is analyzed. 1999 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Kocharovskaya, Olga
• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

• Kozlov, V. V., Kocharovskaya, O., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 5

complete list of authors

• Kozlov, VV||Kocharovskaya, O||Scully, MO

publication date

• May 1999

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

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

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5108 Quantum Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.3986

start page

• 3986

end page

• 3997

volume

• 59

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreva.59.3986