title: Modified spontaneous emission from a two-dimensional photonic crystal.
abstract: Decay kinetic properties of a two-level atom near the band edges of a two-dimensional photonic crystal are studied based on the Green's function expression for the evolution operator. Our calculations show that the decay kinetics can be controlled by changing the atomic parameters. We also find that there is a quite wide lifetime distribution in the spontaneous emission process.
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, 200083 Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Xiaoshuang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lu