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Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 043603 (2005) [4 pages]

Coherent Inelastic Backscattering of Intense Laser Light by Cold Atoms

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V. Shatokhin1,2, C. A. Müller3, and A. Buchleitner2
1B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Skaryna Avenue 70, BY-220072 Minsk, Belarus
2Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
3Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany

Received 27 August 2004; published 2 February 2005

We present a nonperturbative treatment of coherent backscattering of intense laser light from cold atoms and predict a nonvanishing backscattering signal even at very large intensities, due to the constructive (self-)interference of inelastically scattered photons.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.043603
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.043603
PACS:
42.50.Ct, 32.80.–t, 42.25.Dd, 42.25.Hz
 
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