Quantum Interference Mechanism of Cooperative Optical Phenomena in Extended Media
Abstract
In the quantum process of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), a laser photon propagating in a resonance medium undergoes multifold conversions into a Stokes photon and back. The nontrivial ``cooperative'' behavior of the Stokes component of light transmitted through the medium is proven to be completely determined by the interference of scattering amplitudes in different sub-channels of the Stokes channel, which obviously combines all the sub-channels with an odd number of photon conversions. The theory of superfluorescence is then derived as the limiting case of the SRS theory.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2000
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/0008012
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/0008012
- Bibcode:
- 2000quant.ph..8012R
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics;
- Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- RevTex, 5 pages