Anomalous Spontaneous Emission Time in a Microscopic Optical Cavity
- 28 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (26) , 2955-2958
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.2955
Abstract
We have realized total electromagnetic mode confinement in a microscopic optical, Casimir-type, cavity and detected the resonant change of the molecular fluorescence time under short-pulse excitation due to a spontaneous-atomic-decay enhancement-inhibition process (Purcell effect). This corresponds to the first realization in optics of the resonant coupling of atoms with a single mode of the radiation field.Keywords
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