Lasing without inversion

Lasing without inversion (LWI), or lasing without population inversion, is a technique used for light amplification by stimulated emission without the requirement of population inversion.[1] A laser working under this scheme exploits the quantum interference between the probability amplitudes of atomic transitions in order to eliminate absorption without disturbing the stimulated emission.[2] This phenomenon is also the essence of electromagnetically induced transparency.[3]

The basic LWI concept was first predicted by Ali Javan in 1956.[4][5] The first demonstration of LWI was carried out by Marlan Scully in an experiment in rubidium and sodium at the University of Texas at Austin, and then at NIST in Bolder.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Harris, S. E. (1989). "Lasers without inversion: Interference of lifetime-broadened resonances". Physical Review Letters 62 (9): 1033–1036. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.1033. (subscription required (help)).
  2. ↑ Mompart, J.; Corbalán, R. (2000). "Lasing without inversion" (PDF). J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 2 (3). doi:10.1088/1464-4266/2/3/201. (subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ Scully, M., & Zubairy, M. (1997). Chapter 7. In Quantum optics (p. 220). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. ↑ Scully, M., & Zubairy, M. (1997). Chapter 7. In Quantum optics (p. 245). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  5. ↑ A. Javan, Phys. Rev. 107, 1579 (1956)
  6. ↑ Javan, A. (2000). "On knowing Marlan". In Ode to a quantum physicist: A festschrift in honor of Marlan O. Scully. Elsevier.


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