Abstract

The incoherent part of the Mollow spectrum for resonance fluorescence has a subnatural linewidth in the weak-field limit. We show that this is due to squeezing of the fluctuations in the induced atomic dipole. The reduced linewidth persists for driving field intensities of approximately 12% of the saturation intensity, where Rabi sidebands begin to appear. We find a similar linewidth narrowing in the transmitted and fluorescent spectra for a single atom in a weakly driven resonant cavity. In this system single-quantum frequency splitting can produce a two-peaked spectrum. Both peaks have a narrowed linewidth. The spectrum of the transmitted light shows a second nonclassical effect that is due to squeezing. A spectral hole may appear at line center, giving a two-peaked spectrum even when there is no frequency splitting.

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