2003/03/04 by Mikayel Khanbekyan, Ludwig Knöll, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.67.063812
14 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2003/03/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
By using the Green-function concept of quantization of the electromagnetic field in dispersing and absorbing media, the quantized field in the presence of a dispersing and absorbing dielectric multilayer plate is studied. Three-dimensional input-output relations are derived for both amplitude operators in the \bf k-space and the field operators in the coordinate space. The conditions are discussed, under which the input-output relations can be expressed in terms of bosonic operators. The theory applies to both (effectively) free fields and fields, created by active atomic sources inside and/or outside the plate, including also evanescent-field components.