Cavity-modified spontaneous emission: From Rabi oscillations to exponential decay

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2816-2821

  Gie\Sen H ^a   Berger, J D ^a   Mohs, G ^a   Meystre, P ^a   Yelin, S F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PROBABILITY;

CENTER OF MASS MOTION; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; RABI OSCILLATIONS; RONTGEN INTERACTION; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0030125619     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.2816     Document Type: Article

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