All-optical photonic band control in a quantum metamaterial
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2017-10-11 v1
Abstract
Metamaterials made of periodic collections of dielectric nanorods are considered theoretically. When quantum resonators are embedded within the nanorods, one obtains a quantum metamaterial, whose electromagnetic properties depend upon the state of the quantum resonators. The theoretical model predicts that when the resonators are pumped and reach the inversion regime, the quantum metamaterial exhibits an all-optical switchable conduction band. The phenomenon can be described by considering the pole stucture of the scattering matrix of the metamaterial.
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@article{arxiv.1612.02263,
title = {All-optical photonic band control in a quantum metamaterial},
author = {Didier Felbacq and Emmanuel Rousseu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02263},
year = {2017}
}
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submitted to Annalen der Physik, special issue on "Quantum dynamics at the extreme"