Interference Effects on the Probe Absorption in a Driven Three-Level Atomic System by a Coherent Pumping Field

In this work the quantum interference effect on the weak probe absorption in a closed three-level V atomic system driven by a coherent driving field is shown to result from the twoquantum processes, constructive for the amplification channels and destructive for the absorption channel. A fourth state in the atom is coupled incoherently to the V system and acts as both an incoherent pumping reservoir and as a stationary, final state in perturbation theory. The application refers to Be-like carbon ions where non-linear pump process of the 1s22s5s(1Se) - 1s22p5s(1P0) transition is combined with the absorption or emission of a single probe photon corresponding to 1s22s5s(1Se) -1s22p7s(1P0) transition. The system is analyzed within the Rmatrix Floquet theory and codes results. (author)