https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170294
Spontaneous emission from a three-level atom embedded in an anisotropic photonic crystal
1
Department of
Physics, Tongji University, 1239 Sipin road, Shanghai 200092, P.R. China
2
Department of Physics, Hongkong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Corresponding author: a xieshy@hotmail.com or xieshy@baoscape.com
Received:
9
April
2000
Revised:
1
August
2000
Published online: 15 January 2001
We study the spontaneous emission properties of a V-type three-level atom embedded in a photonic crystal with the anisotropic dispersion relation. We show that the localized field can disappear and the diffusion field can become intense in some regions. This originates from no singularity of the density of states. The quantum interference leads to oscillatory, quasi-oscillatory or complete decay behavior of population. The complete decay can also be realized in certain condition without depending on the initial state.
PACS: 42.70.Qs – Photonic bandgap materials / 42.50.Dv – Nonclassical field states; squeezed, antibunched, and sub-Poissonian states; operational definitions of the phase of the field; phase measurements / 32.80.Bx – Level crossing and optical pumping
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2001
