Photon emission by nanocavity-enhanced quantum anti-Zeno effect in solid-state cavity quantum-electrodynamics

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18067-18081

  Yamaguchi, Makoto ^a,b   Asano, Takashi ^a,b   Noda, Susumu ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; SOLID-STATE QUANTUM DEVICES; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; TWO-PHOTON EMISSION; VACUUM RABI SPLITTING; WEAK-COUPLING REGIME;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 55349134892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018067     Document Type: Article

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