| Abstract: | The coherent interaction of an electromagnetic field with the medium in those cases in which the current emission in matter can be described within the framework of the two-level quantum system is considered. The physical nature of such cases is quite different. The media may be two-level particles (atoms or molecules), superconducting planar structures (e.g., high-temperature superconductors, HTSC, or relativistic electron beams in a free-electron laser (FEL). Also, the dynamics of the electromagnetic field for the visible, microwave, and x-ray wavelength region can be described. A short review of the results is given in the section on two-level particle media. The results of studying the interaction of the field with the electron beams in an x-ray FEL and the field interaction with the HTSC medium are the first to be reported.Translated from Preprint No. 82, Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1990. |
