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We present a microscopic quantization scheme for the electromagnetic field
in dispersive and lossy dielectrics of arbitrary geometry. This method also
describes anisotropic media and media driven by light field via a spatiall
y nonlocal permittivity. The method removes the need for complicated diagon
alization of material, reservoir and field variables and allows us to inclu
de the effect of all the material excitations. Dissipation inside the mediu
m is described by considering the coupling of the polarization quanta of th
e system with the reservoir oscillators in the usual Langevin approach.