1303.4697 (Tom Bienaime et al.)

Interplay between radiation pressure force and scattered light intensity
in the cooperative scattering by cold atoms    [PDF]

Tom Bienaime, Romain Bachelard, Julien Chabe, Mohamed-Taha Rouabah, Louis Bellando, Philippe W. Courteille, Nicola Piovella, Robin Kaiser

The interplay between the superradiant emission of a cloud of cold two-level atoms and the radiation pressure force is discussed. Using a microscopic model of coupled atomic dipoles driven by an external laser, the radiation field and the average radiation pressure force are derived. A relation between the far-field scattered intensity and the force is derived, using the optical theorem. Finally, the scaling of the sample scattering cross section with the parameters of the system is studied.

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