Abstract

The development of laser sources with sub-Poissonian photodetection statistics raises the problem of how such statistical property of a laser could influence an atomic system, and how it could be used in novel applications. In this work we present semi-classical Monte Carlo simulations of the resonance fluorescence experiment in which we consider a variable statistics for the energy exchange between atoms and excitation laser. The laser photon statistics is taken into account by considering bunching and antibunching effects of the absorption and stimulated emission processes while spontaneous emission is still treated as a memoryless process. Our study is motivated both by the interesting statistical properties of the atom-field interaction itself and by the possibility of employing sub-Poissonian lasers on the construction of a magneto-optical trap.

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