From thermal to stimulated emission of light
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation deals with two disparate regimes of light: Thermal emission of light from nanostructured and microstructured surfaces, and light emission and scattering from isolated quantum multi-level systems such as atoms or quantum dots. We show that wavelength-scale structuring of materials can lead to strong modification of light absorption and emission properties, and that such properties can lead to improvements in the efficiency of solar energy conversion and can enable passive cooling via emission of radiation even during the daytime hours. We also study the fully quantum-mechanical interaction of few-photon states with isolated quantum multi-level systems (emitters), whose physical manifestation can take the form of atoms, superconducting qubits, and quantum dots. Through this study we obtain analytical solutions to the propagation of photons through these important system. Specifically, we gain new insight into atom inversion, fluorescence quenching, two-photon state engineering, dissipation, and provide the first fully quantum mechanical description of stimulated emission in the most fundamental case of a single-photon, interacting with a single excited atom.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Rephaeli, Eden |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Applied Physics. |
| Primary advisor | Fan, Shanhui, 1972- |
| Primary advisor | Harris, J. S. (James Stewart), 1942- |
| Thesis advisor | Fan, Shanhui, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Harris, J. S. (James Stewart), 1942- |
| Thesis advisor | Mabuchi, Hideo |
| Advisor | Mabuchi, Hideo |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Eden Rephaeli. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Applied Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2015 by Eden Rephaeli
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