Coherent control of spontaneous emission in a four-level system

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1025-1041

  Paspalakis, E ^a   Knight, P L ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCIES; GROUND STATE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COHERENT PHASE CONTROL; LASER FIELDS; MULTIPHOTON TRANSITION;

SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

EID: 0034656942     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340008233403     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Lewenstein, M., Zakrzewski, J., and Mossberg, T. W., 1988. Phys. Rev. A, 38:808
2. Berman, P. R., 1994. Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, London:Academic Press. See contributions in
3. Garraway, B. M., and Knight, P. L., 1996. Phys. Rev. A, 54:3592
4. John, S., and Quang, T., 1994. Phys. Rev. A, 50:1764
5. Zhu, S. Y., Chen, H., and Huang, H., 1997. Phys. Rev. Lett., 79:205
6. Bay, S., Lambropoulos, P., and Mølmer, K. M., 1997. Phys. Rev. Lett., 79:2654
7. Paspalakis, E., Kylstra, N. J., and Knight, P. L., 1999. Phys. Rev. A, 60:R33 Paspalakis, E., Angelakis, D. G., and Knight, P. L., 1999, Optics Commun. (in press).
8. Knight, P. L., 1979. J. Phys. B, 12:3297
9. Cardimona, D. A., Raymer, M. G., and Stroud, C. R., Jr. 1982. J. Phys. B, 15:55
10. Narducci, L. M., Scully, M. O., Oppo, G. L., Ru, P., and Tredicce, J. R., 1990. Phys. Rev. A, 42:1630
11. Gauthier, D. J., Zhu, Y., and Mossberg, T. W., 1991. Phys. Rev. Lett., 66:2460
12. Hegerfeldt, G. C., and Plenio, M. B., 1992. Phys. Rev. A, 46:373 1993, Phys. Rev. A, 47, 2186; Plenio, M. B., 1999, submitted for publication.
13. Zhu, S. Y., and Scully, M. O., 1996. Phys. Rev. Lett., 76:388 Lee, H., Polynkin, P., Scully, M. O., and Zhu, S. Y., Phys. Rev. A, 55, 4454 (1997).
14. Xia, H. R., Ye, C. Y., and Zhu, S. Y., 1996. Phys. Rev. Lett., 77:1032
15. Zhou, P., and Swain, S., 1996. Phys. Rev. Lett., 77:3995 1997, Phys. Rev. A, 56, 3011.
16. Patnaik, A. K., and Agarwal, G. S., 1998. J. Mod. Optics, 45:2131 1999, Phys. Rev. A, 59, 3015.
17. Berman, P., 1998. Phys. Rev. A, 58:4886
18. Paspalakis, E., and Knight, P. L., 1999. J. Mod. Optics, 46:623
19. Li, F. L., and Zhu, S. Y., 1999. Phys. Rev. A, 59:2330
20. Agarwal, G. S., 1996. Phys. Rev. A, 54:R3734 1998, Phys. Rev. A, 58 686.
21. Keitel, C. H., 1999. Phys. Rev. Lett., 83:1307 Keitel, C. H., Zhu, S. Y., and Knight, P. L., Laser Phys., 9, 826 (1999).
22. Martinez, M. A. G., Herczfeld, P. R., Samuels, C., Narducci, L. M., and Keitel, C. H., 1997. Phys. Rev. A, 55:4483
23. Quang, T., Woldeyohannes, M., John, S., and Agarwal, G. S., 1997. Phys. Rev. Lett., 79:5238
24. Paspalakis, E., and Knight, P. L., 1998. Phys. Rev. Lett., 81:293
25. Paspalakis, E., Keitel, C. H., and Knight, P. L., 1998. Phys. Rev. A, 58:4868
26. Gong, S. Q., Paspalakis, E., and Knight, P. L., 1998. J. Mod. Optics, 45:2433
27. Menon, S., and Agarwal, G. S., 1998. Phys. Rev. A, 57:4014 LANL e-print quantph/9908055.
28. Zhou, P., and Swain, S., 1999. Phys. Rev. Lett., 82:2500
29. Shapiro, M., Hepburn, J., and Brumer, P., 1988. Chem. Phys. Lett., 149:451 Nakajima, T., and Lambropoulos, P., 1994, Phys. Rev. A, 50, 595; Protopapas, M., and Knight, P. L., 1995, J. Phys. B, 28, 4459; Paspalakis, E., Patel, A., Protopapas, M., and Knight, P. L., J. Phys. B, 31, 761 (1998).
30. Sheehy, B., Walker, B., and Dimauro, L. F., 1995. Phys. Rev. Lett., 74:4799 Dupont, E., Corkum, P. B., Liu, H. C., Buchanan, M., and Wasilewski, Z. R., Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, 3596 (1995).
31. Chen, C., Yin, Y. Y., and Elliott, D. S., 1990. Phys. Rev. Lett., 64:507 Chen, C., and Elliott, D. S., 1990, Phys. Rev. Lett., 65, 1737; Zhu, L., Kleiman, V., Li, X., Lu, S. P., Trentelman, K., and Gordon, R. J., 1995, Science, 270, 77; Zhu, L., Suto, K., Fiss, J. A., Wada, R., Seideman, T., and Gordon, R. J., Phys. Rev. Lett., 79, 4108 (1997).
32. Papastathopoulos, E., Xenakis, D., and Charalambidis, D., 1999. Phys. Rev. A, 59:4840
33. Meystre, P., and Sargent, M., III. 1998. Elements of Quantum Optics, 3rd edition, Berlin:Springer-Verlag. See for example
34. Agarwal, G. S., 1974. “ Quantum Statistical Theories of Spontaneous Emission and their Relation to Other Approaches, Springer Tracks in Modern Physics ”. Edited by:Höhler, G., Vol. 70, Berlin:Springer-Verlag. Chap. 15
35. Barnett, S. M., and Radmore, P. M., 1997. Methods in Theoretical Quantum Optics, Oxford:Oxford University Press. Chap. 5.
36. It is easy to show that similar results to those presented below are obtained for the case when p = −1.
37. Paspalakis, E., and Knight, P. L., 1999. Optics Commun., (in press)