Quantum-jump statistical analysis of three-level systems with arbitrary coupling laser intensities and detunings

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2368-2376

  Mompart, Jordi ^a   Corbalán, Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LASER OPTICS; LASER TUNING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA;

DETUNINGS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0242493532     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.002368     Document Type: Article

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24. ab being the spontaneous emission rate from |a〉 to |b〉.
25. ij with i = j yield a new coherent evolution period in the same manifold as the previous one; see Ref. 22.
26. α〉/T where T is the average time between two consecutive quantum jumps; see Eqs. (4.11) and (4.16) in Ref. 20.
27. 2 dτ .