Spectral properties of a thresholdless dressed-atom laser

TL;DR

This paper studies the spectral features of a single-atom dressed-state laser in a photonic crystal, revealing how the spectrum varies with pumping rate and showing that threshold behavior persists in the spectrum despite predictions of thresholdless lasing.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the spectral properties of a thresholdless dressed-atom laser, highlighting the dependence on pumping rate and clarifying the spectral signatures of thresholdless lasing.

Findings

Spectral structure depends strongly on the pumping rate.

At low pumping, the spectrum shows discrete lines indicating quantum structure.

At a specific pumping rate, the spectrum simplifies to a narrow single line.

Abstract

We investigate spectral properties of the atomic fluorescence and the output field of the cavity-mode of a single-atom dressed-state laser in a photonic crystal. We pay a particular attention to the behavior of the spectra in the presence of the frequency dependent reservoir and search for signatures of the thresholdless lasing. Although the thresholdless behavior has been predicted by analyzing the photon statistics of the cavity field, we find that the threshold behavior still exists in the spectrum of the cavity field. We find that the structure of cavity field spectrum depends strongly on the strange of the pumping rate. For low pumping rates, the spectrum is not monochromatic, it is composed of a set of discrete lines reveling the discrete (quantum) structure of the combined dressed-atom plus the cavity field system. We find that for a certain value of the pumping rate, the multi-peak structure converts into a single very narrow line centered at the cavity field frequency. A physical explanation of the behavior of the spectra is provided in terms of dressed states of the system.