Abstract
We identify discrepancies between two published predictions of the resonance fluorescence from a two-level atom driven by a strong bichromatic field [J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 1163 (1991) and Phys. Rev. A 3092 (1993)]. These discrepancies are shown to arise from subtleties in extracting the time-averaged resonance fluorescence from the expansions used to solve the optical Bloch equations. We construct a solution to these equations that corrects the results of the latter reference and reconciles the two predictions.
- Received 16 November 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.067401
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