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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Quantum-Field Model for Dispersive-Microcavity Spontaneous Photon Conversion

Alex Hayat, Meir Orenstein

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We develop a quantum-field model for dispersive cavity photon conversion, incorporating dispersion into spatial eigenmodes enabling direct calculations of spontaneous photon-to-photon decay rates similar to atomic radiative transitions, that cannot be achieved by classical optics.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2007.jwc4

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