Spontaneous emission in microcavity electrodynamics
- 20 February 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 65 (3) , 033817
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.65.033817
Abstract
We present a general, semimicroscopic, self-consistent treatment of spontaneous emission for a two-level atom in a dielectric microcavity with arbitrary shape. Both lossless and absorbing media are considered. Our approach is based on linear-response theory and the coupled-dipole method. We illustrate our method on spherical and cubic cavities. We discuss the Purcell effect, the frequency shift, the local-field effect, and the dipole-dipole coupling experienced by a source placed in a microcavity.Keywords
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