Line splitting and modified atomic decay of atoms coupled with N quantized cavity modes Article

Zhu, Y. (1992). Line splitting and modified atomic decay of atoms coupled with N quantized cavity modes . OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, 89(2-4), 217-222. 10.1016/0030-4018(92)90162-K

cited authors

  • Zhu, Y

authors

abstract

  • We study the interaction of a two-level atom with N non-degenerate quantized cavity modes including dissipations from atomic decay and cavity damps. In the strong coupling regime, the absorption or emission spectrum of weakly excited atom-cavity system possesses N + 1 spectral peaks whose linewidths are the weighted averages of atomic and cavity linewidths. The coupled system shows subnatural (supernatural) atomic decay behavior if the photon loss rates from the N cavity modes are smaller (larger) than the atomic decay rate. If N cavity modes are degenerate, they can be treated effectively as a single mode. In addition, we present numerical calculations for N = 2 to characterize the system evolution from the weak coupling to strong coupling limits. © 1992.

publication date

  • May 1, 1992

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start page

  • 217

end page

  • 222

volume

  • 89

issue

  • 2-4