We present both analytical results and numerical simulations that describe the light pressure on atoms in the fields of counterpropagating waves whose amplitudes and phases are described as stochastic processes. We show that, just as with the light pressure exerted in the field of two counterpropagating bichromatic waves, the light pressure on an atom in counterpropagating stochastic waves may considerably exceed the pressure exerted in the field of a single running wave, when one of them repeats the other with some delay, We also discuss the interaction of an atom with two counterpropagating waves when one of them is monochromatic and the other one has a stochastic phase.

Date Published: 22 May 2006
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 6256, ICONO 2005: Ultrafast Phenomena and Physics of Superintense Laser Fields; Quantum and Atom Optics; Engineering of Quantum Information, 62560V (22 May 2006); doi: 10.1117/12.682580

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6256:
ICONO 2005: Ultrafast Phenomena and Physics of Superintense Laser Fields; Quantum and Atom Optics; Engineering of Quantum Information
Hans A. Bachor; Andre D. Bandrauk; Paul B. Corkum; Markus Drescher; Mikhail Fedorov; Serge Haroche; Sergei Kilin; Alexander Sergienko, Editor(s)