Resonance Raman scattering in photonic band-gap materials
Abstract
We study the resonance Raman scattering of light from a three-level atom embedded in a photonic band-gap material or in a frequency dispersive medium whose photon spectrum exhibits a gap due to photon coupling to medium excitations such as excitons and optical phonons. We demonstrate that the one-particle spectrum of the system consists of either a continuous part with energy lying outside the gap or a single discrete mode with energy lying inside the gap. The discrete mode, which occurs when both of the allowed atomic transitions of the Λ configuration lie inside the gap, can be treated as a photon-atom bound state in which the radiation is localized in the vicinity of the atom. In the case of the continuous spectrum, the Rayleigh and Stokes lines are shifted as well as narrowed (or broadened) as the corresponding transition frequencies are shifted relative to the upper band edge, providing a distinctive experimental signature of atom-photon interactions near a photonic band edge.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- December 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.013814
- Bibcode:
- 2000PhRvA..63a3814W
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.Gy;
- 42.70.Qs;
- Effects of atomic coherence on propagation absorption and amplification of light;
- electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption;
- Photonic bandgap materials