Dynamical suppression of spontaneous emission
Abstract
We study the influence of a strong resonant driving field on the spectral properties of a single, cavity-confined, two-level atom. Under conditions of atom-cavity resonance, the lines of the Mollow resonance fluorescence triplet are found to narrow with increasing driving field strength, indicating a dynamical decoupling of the atom from the vacuum field.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.775
- Bibcode:
- 1987PhRvL..59..775L
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Spectra;
- Laser Cavities;
- Quantum Electrodynamics;
- Quantum Optics;
- Resonance Fluorescence;
- Spontaneous Emission;
- Atomic Excitations;
- Bloch Band;
- Hamiltonian Functions;
- Laplace Transformation;
- Matrices (Mathematics);
- Atomic and Molecular Physics;
- 42.50.Hz;
- 32.70.Jz;
- 42.50.Dv;
- 42.50.Kb;
- Strong-field excitation of optical transitions in quantum systems;
- multiphoton processes;
- dynamic Stark shift;
- Line shapes widths and shifts;
- Nonclassical states of the electromagnetic field including entangled photon states;
- quantum state engineering and measurements