Mollow triplet under incoherent pumping

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Dec 3;105(23):233601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.233601. Epub 2010 Dec 1.

Abstract

A counterpart of the Mollow triplet (luminescence line shape of a two-level system under coherent excitation) is obtained for the case of incoherent excitation in a cavity. The system acquires coherence through the strong-coupling between the cavity and the emitter. Analytical expressions, in excellent agreement with numerical results, pinpoint analogies and differences between the conventional resonance fluorescence spectrum and its cavity QED analogue under incoherent excitation. Most notably, the satellites broaden and split sublinearly with increasing incoherent pumping.