Quantum Informatics With Plasmonic Meta-Materials

Kamli, Ali A.; Моисеев, С. А.; Sanders, Barry C.

doi:10.1142/s0219749911007277

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“…with k 0 = ω/c. Note that ε 1 (ω) and µ 1 (ω) are respectively the permittivity and permeability of the NIMM, which can be parameterized by using the Drude model [37][38][39] with ε 1 (ω) = ε ∞ −ω 2 e /(ω 2 +iγ e ω) and µ 1 (ω) = µ ∞ −ω 2 m /(ω 2 +iγ m ω), where ω e and ω m are the electric and magnetic plasmon frequencies, γ e and γ m describe the corresponding decay rates, and ε ∞ and µ ∞ are background constants, respectively. Note that such permittivity and permeability can be obtained if the signal field is normally incident into the NIMM designed by a periodical array of silver-based double-fishnet structures of meta-atoms along z direction (see Refs.…”

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Lossless Airy Surface Polaritons in a Metamaterial via Active Raman Gain

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Tan

Huang

2016

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We propose a scheme to realize a lossless propagation of linear and nonlinear Airy surface polaritons (SPs) via active Raman gain (ARG). The system we suggest is a planar interface superposed by a negative index metamaterial (NIMM) and a dielectric, where three-level quantum emitters are doped. By using the ARG from the quantum emitters and the destructive interference effect between the electric and magnetic responses from the NIMM, we show that not only the Ohmic loss of the NIMM but also the light absorption of the quantum emitters can be completely eliminated. As a result, non-diffractive Airy SPs may propagate for very long distance without attenuation. We also show that the Kerr nonlinearity of the system can be largely enhanced due to the introduction of the quantum emitters and hence lossless Airy surface polaritonic solitons with very low power can be generated in the system.

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“…First, we have assumed, like that done in Refs. [37][38][39][40], the NIMM is spatially homogeneous.…”

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Lossless Airy Surface Polaritons in a Metamaterial via Active Raman Gain

Zhang

Tan

Huang

2016

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“…Nonlinear SPs arise by assumingx  has a slowly varying amplitude modification to the linear SPs. We numerically analyze performance of our nonlinear polaritonic waveguide using realistic parameters for both the atomic medium [84] and the NIMM layer [68,85]. Radiative decay is G = G = 9 kHz [39], which possess dark coupledpolaritonic nonlinear waves(see appendix C for more details).…”

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Surface-polaritonic phase singularities and multimode polaritonic frequency combs via dark rogue-wave excitation in hybrid plasmonic waveguide

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Material characteristics and input-field specifics limit controllability of nonlinear electromagneticfield interactions. As these nonlinear interactions could be exploited to create strongly localized bright and dark waves, such as nonlinear surface polaritons, ameliorating this limitation is important. We present our approach to amelioration, which is based on a surface-polaritonic waveguide reconfiguration that enables excitation, propagation and coherent control of coupled dark rogue waves having orthogonal polarizations. Our control mechanism is achieved by finely tuning laser-field intensities and their respective detuning at the interface between the atomic medium and the metamaterial layer. In particular, we utilize controllable electromagnetically induced transparency windows commensurate with surface-polaritonic polarization-modulation instability to create symmetric and asymmetric polaritonic frequency combs associated with dark localized waves. Our method takes advantage of an atomic self-defocusing nonlinearity and dark rogue-wave propagation to obtain a sufficient condition for generating phase singularities. Underpinning this method is our theory which incorporates dissipation and dispersion due to the atomic medium being coupled to nonlinear surface-polaritonic waves. Consequently, our waveguide configuration acts as a bimodal polaritonic frequency-comb generator and high-speed phase rotator, thereby opening prospects for phase singularities in nanophotonic and quantum communication devices.field [18]. In the past few decades, experimental and theoretical investigations(for an intuitive explanation of dealing with plasmonic loss for waveguide application, see [19]) report stable propagation of linear and nonlinear SPWs employing ultra-low loss metallic-type layers such as single-crystal [20] and mono-crystal [21] metallic film, structured Fano metamaterials [22], semiconductor metamaterials [23] and superconducting metamaterials [24]. These investigations reveal that plasmonic excitation and stable propagation need minimal metallic nanostructure roughness [25]. Therefore, polaritonic frequency combs, and generally space-time control of nonlinear SPWs, are unfortunately challenging due to material limitations and driving field characteristics [26-28].Propagation of an optical pulse in nonlinear media leads to the appearance of strongly localized bright and dark waves such as soliton [29], rogue waves and breathers in nearly conservative systems [30]. Bright rogue waves and breathers are highly localized nonlinear solitary waves with oscillatory amplitudes [31,32]. These waves are valuable for their applications to phase and intensity modulation schemes [33,34], as well as the formation of bound states and molecule-like behavior [35]. More generally, dissipative rogue waves and breathers [36] have potential applications to nonlinear systems such as mode-locked lasers [37] and frequencycomb generators [38]. By contrast, dark rogue waves were only observed during multimode polarized light propagation ...

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“…The NIMM can be described by using macro-parameters, i.e. the permittivity and the permeability, which are given by [22][23][24]…”

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“…9 SPs produced in metal-dielectric interfaces doped with quantum emitters have also been considered in many studies. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] In the work by Kamli et al,22,23 an interesting scheme was proposed for realizing a coherent control…”

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Storage and Retrieval of Surface Polaritons

Huang

2018

ACS Photonics

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We investigate the memory of surface polariton (SP) via the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) of quantum emitters doped at the interface between a dielectric and a metamaterial. We show that, due to the strong mode confinement provided by the interface, the EIT effect can be largely enhanced; furthermore, the storage and retrieval of the SP can be realized by switching off and on of a control laser field; additionally, the efficiency and fidelity of the SP memory can be improved much by using a weak microwave field. The results reported here are helpful not only for enhancing the understanding of SP property but also for promising applications in quantum information processing and transmission.KEYWORDS: electromagnetically induced transparency, surface polaritons, light storage In past two decades, considerable attention has been paid to the research on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), a typical quantum interference effect occurring in resonant three-level atomic gases. The light behavior in EIT systems possesses many striking features, including substantial suppression of optical absorption, significant slowdown of group velocity, excellent coherent control of the interaction between light and atoms at weak light level, and so on. 1One of important applications of EIT is light storage, which has important applications in quantum informatics. 2 The basic mechanism of EIT-based light storage is that the system allows a stable combined excitation (called dark-state polariton 3 ) contributed by atomic coherence together with a probe (or called signal) laser field, which displays an atomic character when a control laser field is switched off and a photonic character when the control field is switched on. The storage of probe optical pulses based on atomic EIT has been verified in many experiments. 4,5 Recently, the possibility of weak-light soliton memory in a cold atomic gas has also been suggested. 6Up to now most of works on EIT-based light storage were carried out in free atomic gases.Although there are some advantages (e.g., long coherence time), such EIT and light storage scheme require special and cumbersome conditions, such as large device size, which hamper compact chip-integrated applications. In contrast, solid media is on demand for practical applications because they are easy for device integration. Some materials (like quantum dots or dopant ions in solids) can combine advantages of atomic gases and solids to get long coherence time and large optical density. Thus the realization of the light storage based on such hybrid materials are more desirable comparing with the atomic gases in free space. 7,8 In recent years, much effort has been focused on the study of surface polaritons (SPs), i.e., polarized electromagnetic waves propagating along a metal-dielectric interface with the wave coupled to charge density oscillations. 9 SPs produced in metal-dielectric interfaces doped with quantum emitters have also been considered in many studies. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19...

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Quantum Informatics With Plasmonic Meta-Materials

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Lossless Airy Surface Polaritons in a Metamaterial via Active Raman Gain

Lossless Airy Surface Polaritons in a Metamaterial via Active Raman Gain

Surface-polaritonic phase singularities and multimode polaritonic frequency combs via dark rogue-wave excitation in hybrid plasmonic waveguide

Storage and Retrieval of Surface Polaritons

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