Resonances and super-radiance in the strong picosecond pumping of dense Rubidium

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Abstract

A recent series of experiments at Texas A\&M University has observed sideband emission at the effective Rabi frequency as well as super-radiant emission in both the forward and backward direction from a dense Rubidium cell pumped by a very strong pico-second pulse. The forward and backward emission spectrum was collected as the pump pulse was scanned over resonance of the D2 and D1 lines. There are a number of interesting observations that can be made through analysis of these spectrums. The most intriguing of which, is the possible observance of a resonant version of the previously proposed QASER\footnote{A. A. Svidzinsky, L. Yuan, M. O. Scully, PRX 3, 041001 (2013).} mechanism. I will briefly discuss the experiment then focus on how to theoretically understand the results.

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Authors

  • Christopher O'Brien

    IQSE, Texas A\&M University

  • Andrew Traverso

    IQSE, Texas A\&M University

  • Luqi Yuan

    Texas A\&M Univ, IQSE, Texas A\&M University

  • Vladislav Yakovlev

    IQSE, Texas A\&M University

  • Marlan Scully

    Texas A\&M University, Princeton University, Baylor University, Texas A\&M University, College Station, TX 77845, Texas A\&M University, Baylor University and Princeton University, None, professor, Baylor University, Texas A\&M University, and Princeton University, Texas A\&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA, Texas A\&M University, Princeton, and Baylor University, Texas A\&M University, Texas A\&M Univ