2000/03/10 by P Lambropoulos, P. Lambropoulos, Georgios M Nikolopoulos +4 · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Engineering · #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Photonic and Optical Devices #Quantum optics and atomic interactions
paper · doi:10.1088/0034-4885/63/4/201
We review basic quantum electrodynamics and quantum optics aspects in microstructures that exhibit a gap in the spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation they support, known as photonic crystals. After a brief sketch of the properties of such materials we discuss the behaviour of few-level atoms or collections thereof with transition frequencies inside and in the vicinity of the gap. The discussion is cast in terms of a unified formalism which facilitates the comparison with standard cavity-atom physics.