Coherent two-photon transitions in Rydberg atoms in a cavity with finite Q.

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.

authors

• Agarwal, Girish

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

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical review. A, General physics  Journal

PubMed Central ID

• 9899499

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/physreva.37.3879

start page

• 3879

end page

• 3883

volume

• 37

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreva.37.3879