A master equation for a two-sided optical cavity
Abstract
Quantum optical systems, like trapped ions, are routinely described by master equations. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a master equation for two-sided optical cavities with spontaneous photon emission. To do so, we use the same notion of photons as in linear optics scattering theory and consider a continuum of traveling-wave cavity photon modes. Our model predicts the same stationary state photon emission rates for the different sides of a laser-driven optical cavity as classical theories. Moreover, it predicts the same time evolution of the total cavity photon number as the standard standing-wave description in experiments with resonant and near-resonant laser driving. The proposed resonator Hamiltonian can be used, for example, to analyse coherent cavity-fiber networks [Kyoseva et al., New J. Phys. 14, 023023 (2012)].
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.3545,
title = {A master equation for a two-sided optical cavity},
author = {Thomas M. Barlow and Robert Bennett and Almut Beige},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.3545},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 2 figures, simplified version