Interplay between radiation pressure force and scattered light intensity in the cooperative scattering by cold atoms
Atomic Physics
2014-03-11 v2 Optics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The interplay between the superradiant emission of a cloud of cold two-level atoms and the radiation pressure force is discussed. Using a microscopic model of coupled atomic dipoles driven by an external laser, the radiation field and the average radiation pressure force are derived. A relation between the far-field scattered intensity and the force is derived, using the optical theorem. Finally, the scaling of the sample scattering cross section with the parameters of the system is studied.
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@article{arxiv.1303.4697,
title = {Interplay between radiation pressure force and scattered light intensity in the cooperative scattering by cold atoms},
author = {Tom Bienaime and Romain Bachelard and Julien Chabe and Mohamed-Taha Rouabah and Louis Bellando and Philippe W. Courteille and Nicola Piovella and Robin Kaiser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.4697},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures, article for special issue of PQE 2013