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Optics of Ordered and Disordered Atomic Media

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Diffuse Waves in Complex Media

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The optical properties of dispersive and lossy, ordered and disordered dielectric media are derived in the classical Lorentz model. Dielectric linear-response theory provides the spectrum of electric-field fluctuations, whose maxima define the polariton dispersion relation. The dependence of polariton radiative damping rates on the degree of disorder in the dielectric is calculated. Particular attention is given to the magnitudes of the scattered intensity for an incident light beam and the decay rates for material excitations. The quantum, semiclassical and classical theories of spontaneous emission are compared and the quantum theory is applied to the radiative decay of dilute impurity atoms in lossy homogeneous and inhomogeneous dielectrics. The phase, group and energy velocities for optical pulse propagation through a lossy dielectric are derived and their physical significances are discussed.

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    Rodney Loudon

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    Jean-Pierre Fouque

  2. Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Jean-Pierre Fouque

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Loudon, R. (1999). Optics of Ordered and Disordered Atomic Media. In: Fouque, JP. (eds) Diffuse Waves in Complex Media. NATO Science Series, vol 531. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4572-5_8

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