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Physical Review Letters

Reflection-induced source correlation in spontaneous emission

Karel E. Drabe, Gerard Cnossen, Douwe A. Wiersma, Hedzer A. Ferwerda, Bernhard J. Hoenders

Published Sep 17, 1990• 13 citations
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Abstract

We present fluorescence spectra showing that the spontaneous-emission spectrum of a molecule in front of a mirror is not invariant on propagation. We also calculate the cross-spectral density of this light source and show that it does not obey Wolf's scaling law [Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1370 (1986)].
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.65.1427

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