Cavity-controlled spontaneous emission spectrum of two level atom coupled to two lossless symmetrically detuned modes has been found rigorously to be a function of the system's energy eigenvalues and displays triplet, doublet or single form depending on detuning, natural linewidth and coupling constant.
The time-dependent spontaneous emission spectral line shape of two level motionless atom placed in common antinode of two symmetrically detuned lossless modes has been investigated nonperturbatively. The line shape and its temporal evolution have been found to be a function of modes detuning and natural line width of isolated atom. The spectrum varies between singlet and triplet taking on the well-known Lorentz-shape form when detuning and natural line width become much larger than the coupling constant of interaction of the atom with modes.
A brief review is given of theoretical and experimental investigations of the spontaneous emission from an atom in a resonator cavity. A theory of spontaneous emission from a two-level atom in free space and in a cavity is presented in a methodical unified manner. In a single-mode resonator the structure of the spectrum of the emitted photons is a singlet or a doublet, depending on the ratio of the cavity damping to the constant of the interaction of an atom with a field. The emission spectrum of an atom in a cavity with two modes with similar frequencies may have a triplet structure.
The spectrum of spontaneously emitted photons from an atom interacting with a single cavity mode depends on the relative sizes of the mode coupling constant and the cavity loss rate. If the coupling constant is not too large, perturbation theory can he used to show that the atomic linewidth is either increased (enhanced spontaneous emission) or decreased (inhibited spontaneous emission) by the presence of the cavity. When the coupling constant is so large that perturbation theory cannot be used, the spontaneous- emission spectrum forms a doublet, with peaks located at the normal-mode frequencies for the coupled-dipole and cavity-mode oscillators (the so-called "vacuum" Rabi splitting).
Summary form only given. The feasibility of cavity-controlled spontaneous emission of a motionless two level atom is analyzed quantum mechanically and nonperturbatively. It is proposed to control the emission by putting the excited atom into the combined field of two lossless modes with their frequencies /spl omega//sub 2,1/ detuned symmetrically about the atomic one /spl omega//sub /spl alpha//, i.e. /spl omega//sub 2,1/=/spl omega//sub /spl alpha///spl plusmn//spl Delta/. The controlling /spl omega//sub 2,1/ modes are isolated from the free radiation field by an one-dimensional ideal cavity (or by two crossed ones) at zero temperature. These modes are taken to be linearly polarized in the same plane. Because the wavelength and cavity dimensions are assumed to be of the same order, the retardation effects are neglected. The spontaneous emission is treated as a radiative decay of the macromolecule-like "atom+/spl omega//sub 2,1/ modes"-subsystem (the H/sub s/-one) under its interaction with the free H/sub k/-field.