We describe the spontaneous emission properties of an M-type five-level atom embedded in a photonic crystal (PC), which is coherently driven by two external laser fields. It leads to two types of quantum interference: reservoir-induced interference and laser-induced interference. Considering different detunings of atomic transition frequencies from band edges, we reveal some interesting phenome...

The noise characteristics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting (VCSE) lasers are studied by using the Langevin rate equations modified suitably to include the enhanced spontaneous emission occurring in such microcavity lasers. The intensity and frequency noise spectra show the effects induced by suppression of relaxation oscillations. However, such a suppression depends on the output power as we...

The presence of mirrors modifies both the coherent coupling of an atom to a light mode and its spontaneous emission into the mode [1]. We study such cavity QED effects experimentally with single ions and optical cavities. We focus on two examples which are equally interesting as fundamental systems and for application in quantum information processing. (i) By retroreflecting the fluorescence of...

Metallic nanoparticles exhibiting plasmonic Fano resonances can provide large enhancements of their internal electric near field. Here we show that nanomatryoshkas, nanoparticles consisting of an Au core, an interstitial nanoscale SiO2 layer, and an Au shell layer, can selectively provide either a strong enhancement or a quenching of the spontaneous emission of fluorophores dispersed within the...

Fermi is a seeded FEL operating in high-gain harmonic generation mode. The FEL layout is constituted by a modulator and six radiators separated by a dispersive section. The modulator and the radiators can be tuned to the same resonant frequency to set up an asymmetric optical klystron configuration where self-amplified spontaneous emission can be generated and studied. This paper presents the e...

We report on the interest of spontaneous emission control with planar dielectric multi-layer structures to increase the fluorescence collection efficiency in single-molecule detection experiments and ultrasensitive analysis. The effect of a very simple Fabry Perot microcavity on the radiation pattern of Eu chelate molecules is introduced and discussed. Then the fluorescence correlation spectros...

cavity quantum electrodynamics describes the behaviour of a quantum emitter inside an optical cavity, and is one of the few realizable experimental systems in which the coherent interaction between the emitter and the cavity mode can exceed dissipative and dephasing processes. Recent advances in this field include the observation of vacuum Rabi splitting1–3, interference4, upconversion5 and the...

Abstract We reveal that strongly enhanced generation of photon pairs with narrow frequency spectra and sharp angular correlations can be realised through spontaneous parametric down-conversion in metasurfaces. This is facilitated by creating meta-gratings nano-structuring nonlinear films sub-wavelength thickness to support the extended bound state continuum resonances, associated ultra-high Q -...

We have theoretically studied the effect of deterministic temporal control of spontaneous emission in a dynamic optical microcavity. We propose a new paradigm in light emission: we envision an ensemble of two-level emitters in an environment where the local density of optical states is modified on a time scale shorter than the decay time. A rate equation model is developed for the excited state...