Spontaneous emission into a planar optical waveguide mode by an atom outside the waveguide
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
An electronically excited atom or molecule located outside but near a planar optical waveguide can decay by spontaneous emission of a photon into a guided mode of the waveguide. We outline a QED theory for calculating the probability for this process and describe general physical insights from that theory. A couple of representative examples are discussed in detail.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0609120,
title = {Spontaneous emission into a planar optical waveguide mode by an atom outside the waveguide},
author = {Andrei Modoran and Gregory Lafyatis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0609120},
year = {2007}
}
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13 pages 3 figures