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The dynamical behavior of entanglement between the atomic ensemble and the spontaneous emission is investigated by applying the femtosecond Gaussian pulses in double- lambda quantum system. In fact by solving the density matrix equations of…

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We investigate the behavior of the light pulse in $Lambda$-type cold atomic gases with two counterpropagating control lights with equal strength by directly simulating the dynamic equations and exploring the dispersion relation. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Ran Wei , Bo Zhao , Youjin Deng , Shuai Chen , Zeng-Bing Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

We characterize the interaction between a single atom or similar microscopic system and a light field via the scattering ratio. For that, we first derive the electrical field in a strongly focused Gaussian light beam, and then consider the…

We consider a medium of multilevel atomic systems interacting with radiation pulses. A relatively simple technique of analytic calculations is proposed, which allows revealing all necessary conditions (with sufficient conditions to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 G. Grigoryan , V. Chaltykyan , E. Gazazyan , A. Hovhannisyan , O. Tikhova

In atom optics a material structure is commonly regarded as an amplitude mask for atom waves. However, atomic diffraction patterns formed using material gratings indicate that material structures also operate as phase masks. In this study a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John D. Perreault , Alexander D. Cronin , T. A. Savas

In this paper we perform a fusion between two important theoretical methodologies, one related to the Frozen Wave beams, which are non-diffracting beams whose longitudinal intensity pattern can be chosen a priori in an medium (absorbing or…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-25 Michel Zamboni-Rached , Mo Mojahedi

Increasing the sensitivity of light-pulse atom interferometers progressively relies on large-momentum transfer techniques. Precise control of such methods is imperative to exploit the full capabilities of these quantum sensors. One key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Dominik Pfeiffer , Maximilian Dietrich , Patrik Schach , Gerhard Birkl , Enno Giese

The propagation of the laser pulses in the underdense plasma is a very crucial aspect of laser-plasma interaction process. In this work, we explored the two regimes of laser propagation in plasma, one with $a_0 < 1$ and other with $a_0…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Shivani Choudhary , Amol R. Holkundkar

We determine the linear optical susceptibility of a radiation pulse propagating through a mixture of a gas of atoms or molecules and a plasma. For a specific range of radiation and plasma frequencies, resonant generation of volume plasmons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 Karl-Peter Marzlin , Anuraj Panwar , M. Shajahan G. Razul , Barry C. Sanders

We propose a super-resolution quantum lithography scheme based on coherent population trapping in lambda-type atoms coupled to temporally-cascaded standing-wave driving fields. By realizing effective multiplication of optical intensity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Hee Su Park , Sun Kyung Lee

The classical method of determining the atomic structure of complex molecules by analyzing diffraction patterns is currently undergoing drastic developments. Modern techniques for producing extremely bright and coherent X-ray lasers allow a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-12 Tomas Ekeberg , Stefan Engblom , Jing Liu

The use of strongly bent crystals in spectrometers for pulses of a hard x-ray free-electron laser is explored theoretically. Diffraction is calculated in both dynamical and kinematical theories. It is shown that diffraction can be treated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-28 Vladimir Kaganer , Ilia Petrov , Liubov Samoylova

We develop a versatile theoretical approach to the study of cold-atom diffractive scattering from light-field gratings by combining calculations of the optical near-field, generated by evanescent waves close to the surface of periodic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Leveque , C. Meier , R. Mathevet , C. Robiliiard , J. Weiner , C. Girard , J. C. Weeber

We propose a diffusion model for the recently discovered diffusion-induced Ramsey narrowing arising when atoms diffuse in a buffer-gas cell in the laser radiation field. The diffusion equation for the coherence of metastable states coupled…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-07-27 V. I. Romanenko , A. V. Romanenko , L. P. Yatsenko

The coherent dipole-dipole interactions of atoms in an atomic array are studied. It is found that the excitation probability of an atom in an array parallel to the direction of laser propagation ($\boldsymbol{\hat{k}}$) will either grow or…

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We analyze the temporal response of the fluorescence light that is emitted from a dense gas of cold atoms driven by a laser. When the average interatomic distance is smaller than the wavelength of the photons scattered by the atoms, the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Ryan Jones , Reece Saint , Beatriz Olmos

We present a wave atom optics theory of the Collective Atomic-Recoil Laser, where the atomic center-of-mass motion is treated quantum mechanically. It extends the previous ray atom optics theory, which treated the center-of-mass atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. Moore , P. Meystre

Interference with atomic and molecular matter waves is a rich branch of atomic physics and quantum optics. It started with atom diffraction from crystal surfaces and the separated oscillatory fields technique used in atomic clocks. Atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Alexander D. Cronin , Joerg Schmiedmayer , David E. Pritchard

In this article we investigate novel signatures of radiation reaction via the angular deflection of an electron beam colliding at 90 degrees with an intense laser pulse. Due to the radiation reaction effect, the electrons can be deflected…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Philipp Sikorski , Alec G. R. Thomas , Stepan S. Bulanov , Matt Zepf , Daniel Seipt

We present a method of Gaussian-beam-mode decomposition to calculate classical diffraction of optical beams by apertures. This method offers a entirely different approach to examine the classic problem. Although our method is based on a…