Electromagnetic field quantization in amplifying dielectrics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1623-1633

  Matloob, Reza ^a   Loudon, Rodney ^a   Artoni, Maurizio ^a,b   Barnett, Stephen M ^b   Jeffers, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; QUANTUM THEORY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CANONICAL COMMUTATION RELATIONS; CASIMIR FORCES; DIELECTRIC FUNCTION; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 0031099427     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.1623     Document Type: Article

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