Multiphoton resonances and Bloch-Siegert shifts observed in a classical two-level system
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 45 (3) , 1810-1815
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.45.1810
Abstract
We report experimental observation of multiphoton resonances and Bloch-Siegert shifts in a strongly driven classical two-level system. The system is an optical ring resonator, and the levels are two orthogonal linear polarizations. The Rabi frequency and the Bloch-Siegert shift were measured for both the one- and three-photon cases. Satisfactory agreement was achieved with theory developed for a quantum two-level system. The experiment demonstrates that these coherence phenomena can be observed in a purely classical system.Keywords
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