Correlation properties of resonantly scattered light
Abstract
The anomalous correlator of the complex amplitudes of a scattered field is calculated. It differs from zero in a running wave for forward scattering, and in a standing wave for oppositely directed scattered rays. The anomalous correlator can be used in measuring the width of atomic resonances on the background of strong Doppler broadening in a linear approximation according to the intensity of the external field.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- November 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-4018(80)90211-4
- Bibcode:
- 1980OptCo..35..209K