DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1992.0024. Vacuum field fluctuations and spontaneous emission in a dielectric slab

Vacuum field fluctuations and spontaneous emission in a dielectric slab

10.1098/rspa.1992.0024

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Abstract

The electromagnetic field is quantized on the basis of the complete set of spatial modes of a plane dielectric slab of arbitrary thickness and refractive index but infinite transverse dimensions, located in otherwise empty three-dimensional space. The vacuum field fluctuations and spontaneous emission rates are evaluated as functions of position both inside and outside the slab. The source-field operator is derived for emission by atoms inside the slab, in the direction perpendicular to its surfaces. Particular attention is given to the possibility of suppressing spontaneous emission by placing atoms in, or close to, a dielectric slab.

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Vacuum field fluctuations and spontaneous emission in a dielectric slab. (1992). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 436(1897), 373â389.

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Deposited	4 years, 6 months ago (Feb. 16, 2021, 7:27 a.m.)
Indexed	1 month, 3 weeks ago (July 7, 2025, 4:45 a.m.)
Issued	33 years, 6 months ago (Feb. 8, 1992)
Published	33 years, 6 months ago (Feb. 8, 1992)
Published Online	28 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 1, 1997)
Published Print	33 years, 6 months ago (Feb. 8, 1992)

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