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The fluorescent spectrum and collective effects in absorptive bistability

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Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter

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The fluorescent spectrum for absorptive bistability is calculated in the bad-cavity limit and found to be dominated by a component corresponding to single-atom resonance fluorescence in the net cavity field. Collective effects appear as corrections of order 1/N-N being the number of atoms. Previous treatments which find collective featurres at the dominant order implicitly assume equality between like-atom and unlike-atom correlations.

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Carmichael, H.J. The fluorescent spectrum and collective effects in absorptive bistability. Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 42, 183–190 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01319553

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