Abstract

We report the effect of a coherent drive on transient lasing in three-level ΛΛ and ΞΞ configurations (c↔a↔bc\leftrightarrow a\leftrightarrow b). We show that the presence of a resonant coherent drive on the a↔ca\leftrightarrow c optical transition can yield an order of magnitude enhancement of the output laser energy on a a→ba\rightarrow b XUV or X-ray transition than with no coherent drive. We demonstrate the crucial role of coherence ϱac\varrho_{ac} for the laser power enhancement. Contrary to the forward direction (with respect to the pump), where forward gain can be enhanced for some choice of the drive Rabi frequency ΩcΩ_{c}, coherent drive on the acac transition always suppresses the backward gain.

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