2003/05/26 by Jacques Moret‐Bailly, Jacques Moret-Bailly, Moret-Bailly, Jacques
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Laser Design and Applications #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Optics (physics.optics) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0305109
5 pages
arxiv created 2003/05/26 · openalex publication_date 2003/05/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The usual computation of the spontaneous emission uses a mixture of classical and quantum postulates. A purely classical computation shows that a source of electromagnetic field absorbs light in the eigenmode it is able to emit. Thus in an excitation by an other mode, the component of this mode on the eigenmode is absorbed, while the remainder is scattered. This loss of energy does not apply to the zero point field which has its regular energy in the eigenmode, so that the zero point field seems more effective than the other fields for the stimulation of light emission.