Rabi oscillation angle and transitions in a micromaser
Ning Lu · Physical Review A · 1993
We show some interesting phenomena in a one-photon micromaser. They include the ``ladder'' behavior of the average Rabi oscillation angle, the striking resemblances between the change rate of the average Rabi oscillation angle and the normalized photon-number variance of the micromaser field, and the twofold transitions around a degenerate trapping state. Away from any transition, including at trapping states at very low cavity temperatures, the average Rabi oscillation angle is approximately 1/2\ensuremath{\pi} short of one or more complete Rabi oscillation cycles.