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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 22, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abc70c
Keywords
quantum optics; laser; population inversion; cooling; V-level atom
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [820404]
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Simultaneous strong coherent pumping of the two transitions of a V-level atom with very different decay rates has been predicted to create almost perfect inversion on the narrower transition. Using the example of the blue and red transitions in Strontium we show that for suitable operating conditions the corresponding resonant gain can be used to continuously operate a laser on the narrow transition. In particular, for a strong detuning of the pump field with respect to the narrow transition, coherent laser emission occurs close to the bare atomic transition frequency exhibiting only a negligible contribution from coherent pump light scattered into the lasing mode. Calculations of the cavity output spectrum show that the resulting laser linewidth can get much smaller than the bandwidth of the pump light and even the natural linewidth of the narrow atomic transition. Its frequency is closely tied to the atomic transition frequency for properly chosen atom numbers. Simulations including atomic motion show Doppler cooling on the strong transition with minor motion heating on the lasing transition, so that continuous laser operation in the presence of a magneto-optical trap should be possible with current experimental technology.
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