Non-exponential spontaneous emission dynamics for emitters in a time-dependent optical cavity

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 23130-23144

  Thyrrestrup, Henri ^a   Hartsuiker, Alex ^a   Gérard, Jean Michel ^b   Vos, Willem L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; RADIATIVE DECAY RATES; RATE-EQUATION MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCAVITIES; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION DYNAMICS; WEAK-COUPLING REGIME;

SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

EID: 84885466424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.023130     Document Type: Article

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