Spontaneous emission in stimulated Raman adiabatic passage
- 18 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 72 (5), 053412
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.72.053412
Abstract
This work explores the effect of spontaneous emission on the population transfer efficiency in stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP). The approach uses adiabatic elimination of weakly coupled density matrix elements in the Liouville equation, from which a very accurate analytic approximation is derived. The loss of population transfer efficiency is found to decrease exponentially with the factor , where is the spontaneous emission rate and is the peak Rabi frequency. The transfer efficiency increases with the pulse delay and reaches a steady value. For large pulse delay and large spontaneous emission rate STIRAP degenerates into optical pumping.
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