Effect of recoil in resonance fluorescence
- 1 November 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 14 (5), 1683-1688
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.14.1683
Abstract
The effect of recoil on the frequency of the spontaneously emitted photons in resonance fluorescence processes is examined. The rate of fluorescence is calculated in the limit of a weak external field. It is found that conservation of energy and linear momentum for the entire scattering process determines the frequency spectrum of the fluorescence. A simple experiment is proposed to measure the frequency shifts due to recoil.Keywords
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