Eur. Phys. J. D 61, 489-491 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2010-10440-4

Cooperative spontaneous emission in nonuniform media

Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland

Corresponding author: ^a arudzins@poczta.onet.pl

Received: 5 August 2010
Revised: 12 November 2010
Published online: 14 January 2011

Abstract

The subject of this paper is modification of cooperative spontaneous emission by a nonuniform medium, with nonuniform distributions of electromagnetic field. A brief analysis is presented, and it is postulated that if spontaneous emission from an atom is strongly suppressed, cooperative emission with another atom may be a preferred emission channel and may counteract the suppression.