Superfluorescence and Cooperative Frequency Shift
Gian Piero Banfi, R. Bonifacio · Physical Review Letters · 1974
We report on a first-principles demonstration of the superfluorescence effect in a large system. Under proper conditions, a system of two-level atoms, confined to a pencil-shaped volume, and initially prepared in an uncorrelated excited state, goes through a nonexponential cooperative decay, giving rise to a superfluorescence burst. Radiation is all confined in two diffraction patterns and the central frequency presents a time-dependent shift (chirping).