https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510302004
Quantum-Kinetic Approach to Deriving Optical Bloch Equations for Light Emitters in a Weakly Absorbing Dielectric
Institute for Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fizicheskaya Str. 5, Moscow Troitsk, 142190 Russia
Published online: 25 September 2015
We obtained the system of Maxwell-Bloch equations (MB) that describe the interaction of cw laser with optically active impurity centers (particles) embedded in a dielectric material. The dielectric material is considered as a continuous medium with sufficient laser detuning from its absorption lines. The model takes into account the effects associated with both the real and the imaginary part of the dielectric constant of the material. MB equations were derived within a many-particle quantum-kinetic formalism, which is based on Bogolyubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon (BBGKY) hierarchy for reduced density matrices and correlation operators of material particles and the quantized radiation field modes. It is shown that this method is beneficial to describe the effects of individual and collective behavior of the light emitters and requires no phenomenological procedures. It automatically takes into account the characteristics associated with the presence of non-resonant and resonant particles filling the space between the optical centers.
Key words: local field / impurity center / resonance fluorescence / collective phenomena
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