Barlow, TM, Bennett, R and Beige, A (2015) A master equation for a two-sided optical cavity. Journal of Modern Optics, 62 (supple). S11 - S20. ISSN 0950-0340
Abstract
Quantum optical systems, like trapped ions, are routinely described by master equations. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a master equation for two-sided optical cavities with spontaneous photon emission. To do so, we use the same notion of photons as in linear optics scattering theory and consider a continuum of travelling-wave cavity photon modes. Our model predicts the same stationary state photon emission rates for the different sides of a laser-driven optical cavity as classical theories. Moreover, it predicts the same time evolution of the total cavity photon number as the standard standing-wave description in experiments with resonant and near-resonant laser driving. The proposed resonator Hamiltonian can be used, for example, to analyse coherent cavity-fiber networks [E. Kyoseva et al., New J. Phys. 14, 023023 (2012)
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | cavity QED, quantum optics, quantum information |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2015 12:37 |
Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2019 12:58 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2014.992992 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09500340.2014.992992 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:85557 |
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