Abstract
The effects of the non-rotating wave approximation (non-RWA) on the spontaneous emission of a V-type three-level atom are studied, where the excited states are coupled to a common ground state by a weak laser field and the upper-level doublet is driven by a strong microwave field. When the non-RWA is applied to the interaction of the atom with the microwave field, for some values of the parameters involved, the spontaneous emission spectrum is comprised of a central peak and a series of sidebands with a constant spacing of the microwave frequency, and the central peak and/or sidebands can be split into two components. The physical interpretation of the spectral characteristics is given in light of the dressed states.
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Xu, Q. Sideband structure spontaneous spectrum without the rotating wave approximation. Eur. Phys. J. D 51, 387–392 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2008-00235-7
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