Quantum Input-Output Theory for Optical Cavities with Arbitrary Coupling Strength: Application to Two-Photon Wave-Packet Shaping
arXiv:1309.5915 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.88.043819
Abstract
We develop quantum-optical input-output theory for resonators with arbitrary coupling strength, and for input fields whose spectrum can be wider than the cavity free-spectral range, while ensuring that the field-operator commutator relations in space-time variables are correct. The cavity-field commutator exhibits a series of space-time echoes, representing causal connections of certain space-time points by light propagation. We apply the theory to two-photon wave-packet shaping by cavity reflection, which displays a remarkable illustration of dispersion cancellation. We also show that the theory is amenable to inclusion of intracavity absorbing and emitting atoms, allowing, for example, dissipative losses within the cavity to be incorporated in a quantum mechanically correct way.
v1: Submitted to Phys Rev A (July 14 2013) v2: Accepted Sep. 2013
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