Quantum Interference Mechanism of Cooperative Optical Phenomena in Extended Media
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Condensed Matter
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.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0008012,
title = {Quantum Interference Mechanism of Cooperative Optical Phenomena in Extended Media},
author = {Valery I. Rupasov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0008012},
year = {2007}
}
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