Abstract
A composite atom-cavity system exhibits complex behavior with respect to spontaneous emission, resonance fluorescence, and transmission spectra.1–3 An early investigation1 showed that for an atom in an ideal cavity, the spontaneous-emission spectra show a doublet splitting in the case of very weak excitation. This splitting, which arises from vacuum-field Rabi oscillation, is regarded as an inherently quantum phenomenon.1,2 However, recent experiments and theoretical analyses have demonstrated that the multiatom vacuum Rabi splitting may be regarded as a feature of linear dispersion theory.3 This approach is dramatically different from the one employed in QED descriptions of the problem.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
DANIEL J. GAUTHIER, YIFU ZHU, S. E. MORIN, QILIN WU, H. J. CARMICHAEL, and T. W. MOSSBERG
QWG5 International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) 1990
M. L. Terraciano, R. Olson, D. Freimund, L. A. Orozco, and P. R. Rice
QFA2 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 2006
P. R. Rice and H. J. Carmichael
MQ6 OSA Annual Meeting (FIO) 1987