Self ordering and superradiant backscattering of a gaseous beam in a ring cavity with counter propagating pump
arXiv:quant-ph/0611221 · doi:10.1364/OE.15.006019
Abstract
We study the threshold conditions of spatial self organization combined with collective coherent optical backscattering of a thermal gaseous beam moving in a high Q ring cavity with counter propagating pump. We restrict ourselves to the limit of large detuning between the particles optical resonances and the light field, where spontaneous emission is negligible and the particles can be treated as polarizable point masses. Using a linear stability analysis in the accelerated rest frame of the particles we derive an analytic bounds for the selforganization as a function of particle number,average velocity, temperature and resonator parameters. We check our results by a numerical iteration procedure as well as by direct simulations of the N-particle dynamics. Due to momentum conservation the backscattered intensity determines the average force on the cloud, which gives the conditions for stopping and cooling a fast molecular beam.
18 pages 11 figures
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