Atomic Solc filter: multi-resonant photoemission via periodic poling of atom-cavity coupling constant

Opt Express. 2009 Aug 31;17(18):15455-67. doi: 10.1364/OE.17.015455.

Abstract

This paper describes a novel atom-cavity interaction induced by periodically poled atom-cavity coupling constant which leads to multiple narrow photoemission bands for an initially inverted two-level atom under the strong coupling condition. The emission bandpass narrowing has a close analogy with the folded Solc filter in the context of quasi-phase matching by periodic poling. We present a closed form solution of the emission probability at the end of interaction and deduce the multiple phase matching condition for this system which is programmable by the interaction time. The Bloch sphere analysis provides a clear understanding of the underlying atomic dynamics associated with the multiple resonances in the semiclassical limit. Furthermore, we show that this interaction can be applied to generation of nonclassical fields with sub-Poisson photon statistics.