Interaction of stochastically polarized laser light with atoms
Robert H. Wentworth · Physical Review A · 1981
This paper considers the effect of stochastic variations in the polarization of a laser tuned to resonance with the transition between a $J=0$ state and the $m=\ensuremath{-}1$ magnetic sublevel, of a $J=1$ state. The transition rate into the $M=1$ sublevel, which is zero in the pure-polarization case, is calculated using two approximate methods, second-order perturbation theory and first-order Redfield theory.