2000/08/02 by Valery I. Rupasov, Rupasov, Valery I.
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Photonic and Optical Devices #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #cond-mat #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0008012
RevTex, 5 pages
arxiv created 2000/08/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
In the quantum process of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), a laser photon propagating in a resonance medium undergoes multifold conversions into a Stokes photon and back. The nontrivial ``cooperative'' behavior of the Stokes component of light transmitted through the medium is proven to be completely determined by the interference of scattering amplitudes in different sub-channels of the Stokes channel, which obviously combines all the sub-channels with an odd number of photon conversions. The theory of superfluorescence is then derived as the limiting case of the SRS theory.