Physical Review A

Spontaneous emission in microcavity electrodynamics

Adel Rahmani, Garnett W. Bryant

Published Feb 20, 2002• 23 citations

Abstract

We present a general, semimicroscopic, self-consistent treatment of spontaneous emission for a two-level atom in a dielectric microcavity with arbitrary shape. Both lossless and absorbing media are considered. Our approach is based on linear-response theory and the coupled-dipole method. We illustrate our method on spherical and cubic cavities. We discuss the Purcell effect, the frequency shift, the local-field effect, and the dipole-dipole coupling experienced by a source placed in a microcavity.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.65.033817

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