Drastic Effects of Damping Mechanisms on Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity

DOI10.1143/JPSJ.74.2921MaRDI QIDQ3371799zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 21 February 2006

Published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0411129

nonlinear optical susceptibility, damping mechanisms, superradiant system, size enhancement

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: We have investigated the optical response of superradiant atoms, which undergoes three different damping mechanisms: radiative dissipation (

g a m m a_{r}

), dephasing (

g a m m a_{d}

), and nonradiative dissipation (

g a m m a_{n}

). Whereas the roles of

g a m m a_{d}

and

g a m m a_{n}

are equivalent in the linear susceptibility, the third-order nonlinear susceptibility drastically depends on the ratio of

g a m m a_{d}

and

g a m m a_{n}

: When

g a m m a_{d} l l g a m m a_{n}

, the third-order susceptibility is essentially that of a single atom. Contrarily, in the opposite case of

g a m m a_{d} g g g a m m a_{n}

, the third-order susceptibility suffers the size-enhancement effect and becomes proportional to the system size.

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