Amplified Emission by Atoms and Lasing in Photonic Time Crystals
arXiv:2201.12116 · doi:10.1126/science.abo3324
Abstract
Photonic Time Crystals (PTCs) - dielectric media with their refractive index modulated periodically in time, offer new opportunities in photonics arising from time reflections and momentum bandgaps. Here, we study the emission of light from a radiation source inside a PTC. We solve the general classical and quantum mechanical models of emission in a temporally-varying medium, and find that radiation is always exponentially amplified when associated with the momentum gap, whether initiated by a macroscopic source, an atom, or by vacuum fluctuations, drawing the amplification energy from the modulation. The radiation linewidth becomes narrower as time advances, and is centered in the middle of the momentum gap. We calculate the spontaneous decay rate of an atom embedded in a PTC and show that it vanishes at the band edge due to low density of photonic states. Finally, we propose the concept of nonresonant tunable PTC lasers.
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