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Title

Noise-free scattering of the quantized electromagnetic field from a dispersive linear dielectric

Author(s)

Hillery, Mark;  Drummond, P. D.

Abstract

An electromagnetic wave scattering from a dispersive linear dielectric was analyzed using the quantum scattering formalism for electromagnetic fields. A dielectric medium modeled as a collection of harmonic oscillators with multiple bare resonances, leading to a number of discrete absorption band was also studied. The results showed that there were absorption bands and unitary input-output relations.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Physical Review A, Vol. 64, no. 1 (2001), article no. 013815

Publication year

2001

FOR Code(s)

0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics;  0204 Condensed Matter Physics;  0205 Optical Physics

Keyword(s)

Boundary conditions;  Dielectric materials;  Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions;  Electromagnetic fields;  Electronic oscillators;  Fourier transforms;  Hamiltonians;  Harmonic oscillators;  Light polarisation;  Light scattering;  Optical beam splitters;  Permittivity;  Quantum optics;  Refractive index

Publisher

American Physical Society

ISSN

1050-2947

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.64.013815

Copyright

Copyright © 2001 The American Physical Society. Published version of this paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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