Abstract
It is shown that resonant interaction of a coherent wave with impurity atoms leads to filling of levels of an impurity atom that lie in the gap in the photon density of states and do not belong to resonant transitions, while the interaction of impurity atoms with a nonresonant coherent wave results in effective deactivation of the indicated levels. The main mechanism determining the pumping and decay of an impurity level in a gap are two-photon radiative relaxation processes previously investigated by the present author (Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 102, 1126 (1992) [Sov. Phys. JETP 75, 611 (1992)]).
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 70, No. 7, 434–438 (10 October 1999)