TABLE OF CONTENTS The investigation and exploitation of the wave properties of atomic matter is of great interest for fundamental as well as applied research and therefore constitutes one of the most active areas in atomic physics and quantum optics. As a consequence of all developments, there is now a vast interest in compact and reliable atom optical setups which not only expand the applicability of atom optics in fundamental research, but also allow for the technological implementation of atom optical measurement systems. A new approach to this challenge lies in the development of miniaturized and integrated atom optical setups based on microfabricated structures [see Birkl et al., 2001 and references therein].
An important line of application of microcavities and microspheres is to use them for the change of the spontaneous emission of radiation by an atom as a result of it being placed into a microcavity [Lai et al., 1988; Bachor, 1998]. Such a problem has fundamental value due to small objects such as microspheres resulting in many important features of the quantum nature of electromagnetic radiation being shown.
As we saw in Part I except WGM a dielectric sphere has a complex spectrum of the electromagnetic low quality eigen...
