Effect of dissipative forces on the theory of a singleatom microlaser.pdfVIP

EFFECT OF DISSIPATIVE FORCES ON THE THEORY OF A SINGLE-ATOM MICROLASER N. Nayak 8 S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, 9 9 Block-JD, Sector-3, Salt Lake City, Calcutta-700091, India 1 v o N 0 Abstract 3 1 v We describe a one-atom microlaser involving Poissonian input of atoms with a fixed 6 8 flight time through an optical resonator. The influence of the cavity reservoir during the 0 1 1 interactions of successive individual atoms with the cavity field is included in the analysis. 8 9 The atomic decay is also considered as it is nonnegligible in the optical regime. During / h p the random intervals of absence of any atom in the cavity, the field evolves under its own - t n dynamics. We discuss the steady-state characteristics of the cavity field. Away from laser a u q threshold, the field can be nonclassical in nature. : v i X r a 1 The subject of one-atom laser, optical counterpart of the micromaser, has generated exten- 1 sive interest after the recent experimental demonstration by An et al . In the experiment, two-level 138Ba atoms in their upper states are pumped into an optical cavity in such a way that average number of atoms in the resonating mode satisfies the condition N ≤ 1.0. The average number of photons n in the mode shows a linear dependence on the pump until N ≃ 0.6. But, a further increase in N displays a thresholdlike jump in n . Calculations based on a one-atom theory, such as the one given in Ref.1, can explain the linear regime only. An and Feld2 incororated the cavity mode structure into the one-at