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The Purcell factor of nanoresonators

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Figure 1: A schematic showing the radiation losses of a nanoscale resonator with mode volume V.

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  1. Mario Agio is at the Quantum Science and Technology in ARcetri (QSTAR), European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) and National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO), Largo Enrico Fermi 2, 50125 Florence, Italy,

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  2. Diego Martin Cano is at the Quantum Science and Technology in ARcetri (QSTAR) and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Largo Enrico Fermi 2, 50125 Florence, Italy,

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