Interplay between radiation pressure force and scattered light intensity in the cooperative scattering by cold atoms
arXiv:1303.4697 · doi:10.1080/09500340.2013.829264
Abstract
The interplay between the superradiant emission of a cloud of cold two-level atoms and the radiation pressure force is discussed. Using a microscopic model of coupled atomic dipoles driven by an external laser, the radiation field and the average radiation pressure force are derived. A relation between the far-field scattered intensity and the force is derived, using the optical theorem. Finally, the scaling of the sample scattering cross section with the parameters of the system is studied.
10 pages, 3 figures, article for special issue of PQE 2013