Published May 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Four-level superradiant laser with full atomic cooperativity

  • 1. Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656 (Japan)
  • 2. State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062 (China)
  • 3. Institute of Quantum Electronics and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Network, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)

Description

We investigate a four-level superradiant laser whose intensity is proportional to N2 and whose linewidth scales as 1/N2. In the absence of spontaneous emissions, we derive the stationary solutions of the atomic full cooperativity, analyze their stabilities, and find the corresponding irreducible representation based on group U(4). We also investigate the spectra of the phase and amplitude fluctuations of the fields inside and outside the cavity and find that the amplitude fluctuations of the output fields cannot be squeezed in the low-frequency limit, which is completely different from the three-level superradiant laser system. Finally, we consider the stationary solutions corresponding to the partial cooperativity due to the symmetry breaking of U(4) induced by the atomic spontaneous emissions.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 053809-053809.16
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42002058
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
AMPLITUDES; EMISSION; FLUCTUATIONS; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; SPECTRA; STABILITY; SYMMETRY BREAKING
Descriptors DEC
VARIATIONS

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