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Linewidth of a Two-Photon Micromaser

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Coherence and Quantum Optics VII

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The two-photon micromaser provides a clean setup to study two-photon processes. A two-photon lnicromaser was experimentally demonstrated by Brune et at. [1] by using a. Niobium superconducting cavity. In this paper, we extended the quantum theory of the two-photon lnicromaser developed by Ashraf, Gea- Banacloche, and Zubairy [2] to study the linewidth by using an ansatz method [3]. We consider a three-level atomic system interacting with a single mode of radiation field inside a cavity with the intermediate level detuned from the cavity mode. We compare the results, under the large detuning limit, with those obtained from an effective Hamiltonian approach.

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  1. M. Brune, J.M. Raimond, P. Goy, L. Davidovich, and S. Haroche, “Realization of a. two-photon maser oscillation”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1899 (1987).

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  2. I. Ashraf, J.Gea-Banacloche, and M.S. Zubairy, “Theory of the two-photon micromaser: photon statistics”, Phys. Rev. A 42, 6704 (1990).

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  3. L. Pedrotti, M.O. Scully, and M.S. Zubairy, “Quantum theory of laser revisted: an exact calculation of the off-diagonal elements”, in Coherence and Quantum Optics VI ed. by L. Mandel and E. Wolf (Plenum, New York, 1984 ) p. 899.

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  4. A.ll. Toor and M.S. Zubairy. “Validity of the effective Hamiltonian in the two-photon atom-field interaction”, Phys. Rev. A 45, 4951 (1992).

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  1. Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan

    M. S. Zubairy & A. H. Toor

  2. Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

    S.-Y. Zhu

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  1. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

    Joseph H. Eberly , Leonard Mandel  & Emil Wolf ,  & 

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Zubairy, M.S., Toor, A.H., Zhu, SY. (1996). Linewidth of a Two-Photon Micromaser. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_56

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