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An on-chip architecture for self-homodyned nonclassical light

Quantum Physics 2017-09-06 v4 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Optics

Abstract

In the last decade, there has been remarkable progress on the practical integration of on-chip quantum photonic devices yet quantum state generators remain an outstanding challenge. Simultaneously, the quantum-dot photonic-crystal-resonator platform has demonstrated a versatility for creating nonclassical light with tunable quantum statistics, thanks to a newly discovered self-homodyning interferometric effect that preferentially selects the quantum light over the classical light when using an optimally tuned Fano resonance. In this work, we propose a general structure for the cavity quantum electrodynamical generation of quantum states from a waveguide-integrated version of the quantum-dot photonic-crystal-resonator platform, which is specifically tailored for preferential quantum state transmission. We support our results with rigorous Finite-Difference Time-Domain and quantum optical simulations, and show how our proposed device can serve as a robust generator of highly pure single- and even multi-photon states.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01566,
  title  = {An on-chip architecture for self-homodyned nonclassical light},
  author = {Kevin A. Fischer and Yousif A. Kelaita and Neil V. Sapra and Constantin Dory and Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis and Kai Müller and Jelena Vučković},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01566},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

We have included a runnable Jupyter notebook to the arXiv submission that contains all the information necessary to reproduce our quantum optical simulations

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