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Deducing residual self-interference of inelastic photons in coherent backscattering of intense laser light from two atoms

✍ Scribed by V. Shatokhin


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
309 KB
Volume
282
Category
Article
ISSN
0030-4018

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✦ Synopsis


A coherent backscattering of intense laser light by two isotropic atoms is studied in the helicity preserving polarization channel. It is demonstrated that single scattering has a non-negligible contribution to the background intensity LðhÞ at small angles h with respect to the backwards direction. This contribution can be subtracted from the total signal, and the value of Lð0Þ necessary for evaluating the coherent backscattering enhancement factor -inferred from measurements of the backscattered light intensity beyond the interference peak.