INVERSIONLESS GAIN IN A THREE-LEVEL SYSTEM DRIVEN BY A STRONG FIELD AND COLLISIONS

Inversionless gain in a degenerate three-level system driven by a strong external field and by collisions with a buffer gas is investigated. The mechanism of population distribution in upper laser level, contributed by the collision transfer, as well as by relaxation, induced by pressure of a buffer gas, is discussed in detail. Explicit formulae for analysis of optimal conditions are derived. The idea developed here for the incoherent pump could be generalized to other systems.