Quantum-statistical theory of Raman scattering processes

TL;DR

This paper develops a comprehensive quantum-statistical framework for Raman scattering involving multiple phonon modes, deriving master equations and analyzing quantum properties like squeezing and photon statistics in both linear and nonlinear regimes.

Contribution

It introduces a unified quantum-statistical model for Raman scattering, including pump depletion and stochastic effects, with exact solutions and analysis of quantum properties.

Findings

Exact solutions for the density matrix in nonlinear regime.

Analysis of sub-Poissonian photon statistics and squeezing.

Relations between quasiprobability distributions and density matrix approaches.

Abstract

Raman scattering from a great number of phonon modes is described from a quantum-statistical point of view within the standing-wave model. The master equation for the completely quantum case, including laser pump depletion and stochastic coupling of Stokes and anti-Stokes modes, is derived and converted to classical equations: either into a generalized Fokker-Planck equation and an equation of motion for the characteristic function or into the master equation in Fock representation. These two approaches are developed both in linear and nonlinear regime. A detailed analysis of scattering into Stokes and anti-Stokes modes in linear regime, i.e., under parametric approximation, is presented. The existence of s-parametrized quasiprobability distributions, in particular the Glauber-Sudarshan P-function, is investigated. An analysis of Raman scattering into separate Stokes and anti-Stokes modes in nonlinear regime, thus including pump depletion, is given. The master equation in Fock representation is solved exactly for the complete density matrix using the Laplace transform method. Short-time solutions, steady-state solutions and approximate compact form solutions are obtained. Relations between the quasidistribution approach based on the Fokker-Planck equation and the density matrix approach based on the master equation in Fock representation are presented. The photocount distribution and its factorial moments as well as variances and extremal variances of quadratures are calculated in both approaches giving the basis for the analysis of the quantum properties of radiation such as sub-Poissonian photon-counting statistics and squeezing. Various statistical moments obtained from numerical calculations utilizing our exact solutions, from the approximate relations for short times, and those obtained under parametric approximation are compared.