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arxiv: 0805.3231 · v2 · submitted 2008-05-21 · 🪐 quant-ph

Perfect Reflection of Light by an Oscillating Dipole

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keywords dipolesinglelightoscillatingreflectedwaveachievingcase
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We show theoretically that a directional dipole wave can be perfectly reflected by a single point-like oscillating dipole. Furthermore, we find that in the case of a strongly focused plane wave up to 85 % of the incident light can be reflected by the dipole. Our results hold for the full spectrum of the electromagnetic interactions and have immediate implications for achieving strong coupling between a single propagating photon and a single quantum emitter.

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