Competing quantum dynamical processes and novel facets of coherent population trapping and noise spectroscopy

Abstract

In Chapter 1 the background and motivation for studying the various nonlinear processes investigated in the thesis is elucidated. An overview of the entire thesis is given in this chapter. A brief introduction to the semiclassical and quantum treatment of the interaction of radiation with matter is given. The second, third and fourth chapters deal with phenomena completely explicable in the semiclassical treatment while the last two chapters deal with quantum electrodynamical competing processes which come under the purview of the fully quantum mechanical Jaynes-Cummings model (JCM).