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Quantum Optics of Atomic Systems Confined in a Dielectric Environment

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With the advent of modern technology, new domains of optics and spectroscopy open up, in which metallic or dielectric structures (microspheres, optical fibers, semiconductor microstructures, sharp-pointed needle tips) with a characteristic size of the order of micrometer, or even tens of nanometers, are currently used. The optics of microstructures or nanostructures is a specific domain of optics, since it deals with objects whose size is commensurable or even smaller than the optical wavelength (near-field optics) [1]. The optical properties of atomic systems (or, more generally, bound electronic systems) confined in such an environment are strongly altered with respect to the free-space properties [2,3]; this forms the core of the research field now known as cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (cavity QED [4,5]), which have strong implications in a number of emerging technologies in both Atomic Physics and Solid State Physics like scanning near-field optical microscopy and spectroscopy, near-field fluorescence microscopy, semiconductor microtechnology, microlasers, atom channeling and atom lithography [2].

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Ducloy, M. (1998). Quantum Optics of Atomic Systems Confined in a Dielectric Environment. In: García, N., Nieto-Vesperinas, M., Rohrer, H. (eds) Nanoscale Science and Technology. NATO ASI Series, vol 348. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5024-8_17

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