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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Channeling of spontaneous emission from an atom into the fundamental and higher-order modes of a vacuum-clad ultrathin optical fiber

Fam Le Kien, S. Sahar S. Hejazi, Thomas Busch, Viet Giang Truong, Síle Nic Chormaic

Published Jan 1, 2018• 1 citation
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Abstract

We study spontaneous emission from a multilevel atom into the fundamental and higher-order modes of a vacuum-clad ultrathin optical fiber. We examine the dependencies of the rate on the type of modes, the position of the atom, and the fiber radius.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2018.jth2a.45

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