Transient Optical Regime of Two Level Atom in Laser Light

An extended analytic approach is considered for optical Bloch equations in the two level atom interacting with laser light. The separation approach of coupled differential equations is always possible with a sequence of special transformation into the Riccati nonlinear differential equation. The conditions that permit an exact solutions of three coupled system are extracted in a natural manner. The case of sodium atom moving along the axis of a monochromatic wave is treated in some details including a discussion on the radiation pressure forces exerted by laser light in the transient regime. PACS numbers: 32.80.Pj, 42.50.Vk, 42.50.Hz, 42.50.Lc.