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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

"Photon Emission by Photon" Model for Spontaneous Frequency Conversion in Dispersive Dielectric Microcavities

Alex Hayat, Meir Orenstein

Published May 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We develop a quantum-field model for photon conversion in dispersive cavity, incorporating dispersion into spatial eigenmodes. Direct calculations of spontaneous photon-to- photon decay rates that cannot be done conventionally are reported.
DOI
10.1109/cleo.2007.4453666

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