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Phys. Rev. A 68, 053809 (2003) [5 pages]

Superfluorescence in photonic crystals with pencil-like excitation

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Kazuaki Sakoda
Nanomaterials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, 3-13 Sakura, Tsukuba 305-0003, Japan

Joseph W. Haus
Electro-Optics Program, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, Ohio 45469-0226, USA

Received 22 July 2002; published 21 November 2003

Fractional decay of population inversion and spectral shift of superfluorescence in photonic crystals due to anomalous Rabi splitting and localization of macroscopic polarization field are demonstrated by means of the coupled-mode analysis for the pencil-like excitation of embedded atoms. Noninteger exponents of atomic density dependence are predicted for the temporal profile of emitted light pulses.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.053809
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.053809
PACS:
42.50.Fx, 42.25.Bs, 42.70.Qs