Phys. Rev. A 68, 022103 (2003) [5 pages]Suppression and acceleration effects of measurements on atomic decay in anisotropic photonic crystalsReceived 20 December 2002; published 11 August 2003 We study the measurement-induced suppression or acceleration of the radiative decay of an atom embedded in an anisotropic photonic crystal. Due to the presence of a band gap in the electromagnetic density of states, repeated projections onto the excited state of the atom can lead to a suppression or acceleration effect already at rather low repetition rates. It is shown that in contrast to the isotropic band-gap materials, both suppression and acceleration effects are possible, depending on the detuning of the atomic transition from the band edge and the frequency of measurements. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.022103
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.022103
PACS:
03.65.Xp, 42.50.Dv
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