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View SchemaSpontaneous emission of an atom in front of a mirror
| Authors | Almut Beige, Jiannis Pachos, Herbert Walther |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0206080 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0206080 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.063801 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 66, 063801 (2002) |
Abstract
Motivated by a recent experiment [J. Eschner {\it et al.}, Nature {\bf 413}, 495 (2001)], we now present a theoretical study on the fluorescence of an atom in front of a mirror. On the assumption that the presence of the distant mirror and a lens imposes boundary conditions on the electric field in a plane close to the atom, we derive the intensities of the emitted light as a function of an effective atom-mirror distance. The results obtained are in good agreement with the experimental findings.
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