Title :
"Photon Emission by Photon" Model for Spontaneous Frequency Conversion in Dispersive Dielectric Microcavities
Author :
Hayat, Alex ; Orenstein, Meir
Author_Institution :
Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
Abstract :
We develop a quantum-field model for photon conversion in dispersive cavity, incorporating dispersion into spatial eigenmodes. Direct calculations of spontaneous photon-to- photon decay rates that cannot be done conventionally are reported.
Keywords :
eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; micro-optics; microcavities; optical frequency conversion; quantum field theory; quantum optics; dispersive cavity; dispersive dielectric microcavities; photon conversion; photon emission; quantum-field model; spatial eigenmodes; spontaneous frequency conversion; spontaneous photon-to-photon decay rates; Dielectrics; Dispersion; Frequency conversion; Integrated optics; Microcavities; Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Photonics Society; Quantum computing; Quantum mechanics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453666
