We derive in the Heisenberg picture a widely used phenomenological coupling element to treat feedback effects in quantum optical platforms. Our derivation is based on a microscopic Hamiltonian, which describes the mirror-emitter dynamics based on a dielectric, a mediating fully quantized electromagnetic field, and a single two-level system in front of the dielectric. The dielectric is modeled as a a system of identical two-state atoms. The Heisenberg equation yields a system of describing differential operator equations, which we solve in the Weisskopf-Wigner limit. Due to a finite round-trip time between emitter and dielectric, we yield delay differential operator equations.Our derivation motivates and justifies the typical phenomenological assumed coupling element and allows, furthermore, a generalization to a variety of mirrors, such as dissipative mirrors or mirrors with gain dynamics. * E-mail me at: faulstich@math.tu-berlin.de; Visit: http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/˜faulstich/ 1 arXiv:1703.05928v2 [quant-ph]