TY - JOUR
T1 - Adiabatic following in two-photon transition
AU - Nayfeh, Munir H.
AU - Nayfeh, Ali H.
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PY - 1977
Y1 - 1977
N2 - The coherent interaction of two smoothly varying, near-resonant, two-photon pulses with a three-level system can be described by "two-photon damped Bloch equations" which are analogous to those for a one-photon transition in a two-level system except for the presence of a two-photon coupling and a frequency shift. These equations are solved for the cases γ1, γ2Ω, γ1=γ2, and γ2k2ε4Ω2, γ1Ω, where γ1 and γ2 are the atomic energy and phase relaxation widths, respectively, and Ω is the Rabi frequency. The leading contribution to the refractive index is intensity dependent, caused by the level shifts inherent in multiphoton processes; it includes a relaxation dependent part which is important at times shorter than γ1-1. The second-order contributions depend on the square of the intensity and the time-integrated square of the intensity. The latter contribution, which is relaxation dependent, causes line asymmetry at the long-wavelength wing; it consists of a term proportional to γ2-γ1 and only important at early times and a term proportional to 2γ2-γ1.
AB - The coherent interaction of two smoothly varying, near-resonant, two-photon pulses with a three-level system can be described by "two-photon damped Bloch equations" which are analogous to those for a one-photon transition in a two-level system except for the presence of a two-photon coupling and a frequency shift. These equations are solved for the cases γ1, γ2Ω, γ1=γ2, and γ2k2ε4Ω2, γ1Ω, where γ1 and γ2 are the atomic energy and phase relaxation widths, respectively, and Ω is the Rabi frequency. The leading contribution to the refractive index is intensity dependent, caused by the level shifts inherent in multiphoton processes; it includes a relaxation dependent part which is important at times shorter than γ1-1. The second-order contributions depend on the square of the intensity and the time-integrated square of the intensity. The latter contribution, which is relaxation dependent, causes line asymmetry at the long-wavelength wing; it consists of a term proportional to γ2-γ1 and only important at early times and a term proportional to 2γ2-γ1.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.15.1169
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.15.1169
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:35949034082
VL - 15
SP - 1169
EP - 1172
JO - Physical Review A
JF - Physical Review A
SN - 2469-9926
IS - 3
ER -