Angular Distribution and Polarization of Superradiant Emission from Atomic Ensembles
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2020
Pages:
1-14
Received:
1 March 2020
Accepted:
13 March 2020
Published:
1 April 2020
Abstract: A density-matrix approach is developed to provide a theoretical description of the intensity, angular distribution, and polarization of superradiative emission from an ensemble of many-electron atomic systems. The many-electron atomic systems are described as cooperatively interacting by means of forces that can be long range. Particular emphasis is given to the coherent excitation of the collective atomic-ensemble states, which may be produced by incident laser radiation. The initial excitation and spontaneous emission processes may be described as independent. Both frequency-domain and time-domain formulations of the density-matrix approach are developed. The collective atomic-ensemble states are specified in a detailed hyperfine representation, corresponding to successively coupling the individual hyperfine angular momenta F pertaining to the many-electron atoms. A less detailed fine-structure angular-momentum representation may also be used. In the density-operator approach, account can be taken of the coherent excitation of a particular subspace of the initial atomic-ensemble states. For a comprehensive and unified development of time-domain (equation-of-motion) and frequency-domain (resolvent-operator) formulations, a reduced-density-matrix (quantum-open-systems) approach is introduced. The non-equilibrium atomic-ensemble-state kinetics and the homogeneous spectral-line shapes can thereby be systematically and self-consistently determined. The collective atomic-ensemble states may be obtained using a variety of different methods. These states can be determined using a dressed-state approach, in which the required states are calculated in the presence of an electromagnetic field.
Abstract: A density-matrix approach is developed to provide a theoretical description of the intensity, angular distribution, and polarization of superradiative emission from an ensemble of many-electron atomic systems. The many-electron atomic systems are described as cooperatively interacting by means of forces that can be long range. Particular emphasis i...
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