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Interference-induced enhancement of intensity and energy of a quantum optical field by a subwavelength array of coherent light sources

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Recently, we have shown a mechanism that could provide great resonant and nonresonant transmission enhancements of the classical (nonquantum) light waves passed through subwavelength aperture arrays in thin metal films not by the plasmon–polariton waves, but by the constructive interference of diffracted waves (beams generated by the apertures) at the detector placed in the far-field zone. We now present a quantum reformulation of the model. The Hamiltonian describing the phenomenon of interference-induced enhancement and suppression of both the intensity and energy of a quantum optical field is derived. The basic properties of the field energy determining by the Hamiltonian are analyzed. Normally, the interference (addition) of two or more waves causes enhancement or suppression of the light intensity, but not the light energy. The model shows that the phenomenon could be observed experimentally, for instance, by using a subwavelength array of the coherent quantum light-sources (one- and two-dimensional subwavelength apertures, fibers, dipoles, and atoms).

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Kukhlevsky, S.V. Interference-induced enhancement of intensity and energy of a quantum optical field by a subwavelength array of coherent light sources. Appl. Phys. B 93, 145–150 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-008-3200-6

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