Monitoring stimulated emission at the single-photon level in one-dimensional atoms
D. Valente, S. Portolan, Gilles Nogues, J.-Ph. Poizat, Maxime Richard, Jean‐Michel Gérard, Marcelo França Santos, Alexia Auffèves · Physical Review A · 2012
We theoretically investigate signatures of stimulated emission at the single-photon level for a two-level atom interacting with a one-dimensional light field. We consider the transient regime where the atom is initially excited, and the steady-state regime where the atom is continuously driven with an external pump. The influence of pure dephasing is studied, clearly showing that these effects can be evidenced with state-of-the-art solid-state devices. We finally propose a scheme to demonstrate the stimulation of one optical transition by monitoring another one, in three-level one-dimensional atoms.