Coherent two-photon transitions in Rydberg atoms in a cavity with finite Q. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The effects of the cavity damping on the phenomenon of collapse and revival in the population inversion of an atom in a two-photon process are investigated by using the dressed-atom approximation. Explicit results are given for a field initially in either a coherent or a two-photon coherent state. The cavity damping is expected to have more significant effects on two-photon transitions because the vacuum-field Rabi frequency for two-photon transitions is smaller than that for single-photon transitions. 1988 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev A Gen Phys

author list (cited authors)

  • Puri, R. R., & Agarwal, G. S.

citation count

  • 58

complete list of authors

  • Puri, RR||Agarwal, GS

publication date

  • May 1988