Conditions for population trapping in a three-level system
- 14 October 1982
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 15 (19) , 3405-3412
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/15/19/010
Abstract
The authors consider population trapping in a three-level system which is driven by two applied fields of arbitrary intensity, frequency and bandwidth. An irreversible loss of population is allowed to take place from the common level. The conditions are investigated under which population trapping can occur when spontaneous emission and finite radiation bandwidths are allowed. For the lambda configuration with monochromatic lasers the authors find that increasing the spontaneous emission rate can increase the amount of population trapped in the system, whereas spontaneous emission destroys trapping in the ladder configuration. For the case of uncorrelated lasers, finite laser bandwidths destroy trapping for either configuration.Keywords
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