Proposal for the measurement of the resonant Stark effect by photon correlation techniques

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, , Citation H J Carmichael and D F Walls 1976 J. Phys. B: Atom. Mol. Phys. 9 L43 DOI 10.1088/0022-3700/9/4/001

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The second-order correlation function for light scattered at resonance from a two-level atom is calculated. The measurement of intensity correlations employing either homodyne or heterodyne techniques provides a novel approach for the extraction of linewidth and splitting frequencies.

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