Correlation signals in resonance fluorescence : interpretation via photon scattering amplitudes

Abstract

Resonance fluorescence is treated as a collision process where incident laser photons are scattered by an atom. Correlation signals are extracted from an expansion to the second order of the post collision field state. Photon antibunching effect appears as a quantum interference between all the possible scattering amplitudes. When Rayleigh photons are rejected, some amplitudes vanish, leading to a bunching behaviour