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The two-photon micromaser provides a clean setup to study two-photon processes. A two-photon lnicromaser was experimentally demonstrated by Brune et at. [1] by using a. Niobium superconducting cavity. In this paper, we extended the quantum theory of the two-photon lnicromaser developed by Ashraf, Gea- Banacloche, and Zubairy [2] to study the linewidth by using an ansatz method [3]. We consider a three-level atomic system interacting with a single mode of radiation field inside a cavity with the intermediate level detuned from the cavity mode. We compare the results, under the large detuning limit, with those obtained from an effective Hamiltonian approach.
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Zubairy, M.S., Toor, A.H., Zhu, SY. (1996). Linewidth of a Two-Photon Micromaser. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_56
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