Cooperative spontaneous emission in nonuniform media

TL;DR

This paper explores how nonuniform media influence cooperative spontaneous emission, suggesting that suppression of individual emission can be countered by cooperative effects between atoms, potentially altering emission dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical analysis of cooperative emission in nonuniform media and proposes that cooperative effects can mitigate emission suppression.

Findings

Suppression of spontaneous emission can be offset by cooperative effects.

Nonuniform media significantly modify emission characteristics.

Cooperative emission may serve as a dominant channel under certain conditions.

Abstract

The subject of this paper is modification of cooperative spontaneous emission by a nonuniform medium, with nonuniform distributions of electromagnetic field. A brief analyzis is presented and it is postulated, that if spontaneous emission from an atom is strongly suppressed, cooperative emission with another atom may be a preferred emission channel and counteract the suppression.