POSITION-DEPENDENT ANTIBUNCHING AND SPECTRAL PROFILES FROM 2 FLUORESCING ATOMS IN AN OPTICAL-RESONATOR

We demonstrate that two incoherently pumped atoms coupled to an optica l resonator produce light with position-dependent field and intensity correlations. The fluorescence spectrum may comprise one, two or three peaks, while the second-order correlation function exhibits bunched o r antibunched photon statistics depending on the position of the measu rement. These dynamical quantum effects are connected to cavity-induce d anticorrelation of the atomic dipoles (Phys. Rev. Lett., 79 (1997) 2 650).