title: Coherent control of stimulated emission inside one-dimensional photonic crystals.
abstract: In this paper, the quasinormal mode (QNM) theory is applied to discuss the quantum problem of an atom embedded inside a one-dimensional (1D) photonic band gap (PBG) cavity pumped by two counterpropagating laser beams. The e.m. field is quantized in terms of the QNMs in the 1D PBG and the atom modeled as a two-level system is assumed to be weakly coupled to just one of the QNMs. The main result of the paper is that the decay time depends on the position of the dipole inside the cavity, and can be controlled by the phase difference of the two laser beams.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Energetica, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Via Scarpa 16, 00161 Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Settimi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Severini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Centini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sibilia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bertolotti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Napoli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Messina