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Phase-conjugated mirror-induced oscillations outside the rotating-wave approximation

S S Hassan1 and O Frege2

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Dynamical behaviour of a single harmonic oscillator (HO) and of a single and two cooperative atoms in front of a phase-conjugated mirror is investigated without using the rotating-wave approximation. The mean photon number of the HO shows transient oscillation of frequency (2ω0) and O(γ/ω0), the ratio of the free-space decay rate to the oscillation frequency, and the fluorescent spectrum becomes asymmetric due to additional resonant and non-resonant dispersive terms. In the single-two-level-atom case, the mean atomic inversion and the fluorescent intensity show steady oscillation O(γ00), the ratio of the A-coefficient to the atomic transition frequency. The amplitude of this steady oscillation at frequency (2ω0) is larger in the case of two cooperative atoms.


PACS

03.65.Ge Solutions of wave equations: bound states

42.65.Hw Phase conjugation; photorefractive and Kerr effects

32.80.-t Photoionization and excitation

42.79.Bh Lenses, prisms and mirrors

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 3 (June 2002)

Received 31 October 2001, in final form 2 January 2002

Published 27 March 2002



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