Resonance fluorescence in modulated laser fields

On the basis of a stochastic model of Burshtein et al. (1967) which assumes the phases, frequencies and/or amplitudes of the radiation field to constitute a randomly time-varying jump-like Markoff process, a generalisation of Mollow's theory (1975) of the dynamic Stark effect is formulated leading to predictions for the resonant scattering spectrum for a two-level atom quite similar to those published in the work of Agarwal (1976), of Eberly (1976) and of Kimble et al. (1977) who use a different approach. Apparently, the general form of the resonant scattering spectrum in a modulated radiation field depends less strongly on the particular stochastic model of the laser light than might be expected.