Cooperative Transients In Inter-Atomic Correlation In The Presence Of An Externally Applied Coherent Field: Relation To Intrinsic Mirrorless Optical Bistability

Charles M. Bowden; C. C. Sung

doi:10.1117/12.933114

2 August 1982 Cooperative Transients In Inter-Atomic Correlation In The Presence Of An Externally Applied Coherent Field: Relation To Intrinsic Mirrorless Optical Bistability

Charles M. Bowden, C. C. Sung

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Proceedings Volume 0317, Integrated Optics and Millimeter and Microwave Integrated Circuits; (1982) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.933114
Event: Integrated Optics and Millimeter and Microwave Integrated Circuits, 1981, Huntsville, United States

Abstract

Our model, presented earlier, which predicts the circumstances under which intrinsic mirrorless optical bistability (OB) can occur due to atomic pair correlation in a small volume, is outlined and the results presented. These results, which Predict a first-order phase transition in steady state for an externally-driven collection of a large number of atoms far removed from thermodynamic equilibriun, forms the motivation for a detailed microscopic examination of the dynamical behavior of atonic pair correlation in the presence of externally-applied coherent radiation. 4 model is presented and results are discussed for the transient dynamic evolution of two, two-level atoms separated from each other by a distance r in the presence of an externally-applied coherent radiation field. The results predict collective radiation reaction, frequency shifts, relaxation in terms of the atomic seoaration r (assumed much larger than single atom dimensions), the externally-applied field intensity and spacial uniformity of the field with respect to the inter-atomic volume.

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Charles M. Bowden and C. C. Sung "Cooperative Transients In Inter-Atomic Correlation In The Presence Of An Externally Applied Coherent Field: Relation To Intrinsic Mirrorless Optical Bistability", Proc. SPIE 0317, Integrated Optics and Millimeter and Microwave Integrated Circuits, (2 August 1982); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.933114

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