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An analytic closed form for the second-order or fourth-order Markovian stochastic correlation of attosecond sum-frequency polarization beat (ASPB) can be obtained in the extremely Doppler-broadened limit. The homodyne detected ASPB signal is shown to be particularly sensitive to the statistical properties of the Markovian stochastic light fields with arbitrary bandwidth. The physical explanation for this is that the Gaussian-amplitude field undergoes stronger intensity fluctuations than a chaotic field. On the other hand, the intensity (amplitude) fluctuations of the Gaussian-amplitude field or the chaotic field are always much larger than the pure phase fluctuations of the phase-diffusion field. The field correlation has weakly influence on the ASPB signal when the laser has narrow bandwidth. In contrast, when the laser has broadband linewidth, the ASPB signal shows resonant-nonresonant cross correlation, and the sensitivities of ASPB signal to three Markovian stochastic models increase as time delay is increased. A Doppler-free precision in the measurement of the energy-level sum can be achieved with an arbitrary bandwidth. The advantage of ASPB is that the ultrafast modulation period 900 as can still be improved, because the energy-level interval between ground state and excited state can be widely separated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We theoretically study properties of narrow spectral features occurring in chains of coupled optical resonators due to classical optical interference. We compare those properties with the properties of the phenomenon of electromagnetically induced transparency in quantum systems. Despite the difference in the underlying physics, we show that both types of systems show striking similarities in optical properties and in possible applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]