Dipole emission and coherent transport in random media III. Emission from a real cavity in a continuous medium

Abstract

This is the third of a series of papers devoted to develop a microscopical approach to the dipole emission process and its relation to coherent transport in random media. In this paper, we compute the power emitted by an induced dipole and the spontaneous decay rate of a Lorentzian-type dipole. In both cases, the emitter is placed at the center of a real cavity drilled in a continuous medium.