Demonstration of Quadrature Squeezed Surface-Plasmons in a Gold Waveguide
Quantum Physics
2011-03-14 v1
Abstract
We report on the efficient generation, propagation, and re-emission of squeezed long-range surface-plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a gold waveguide. Squeezed light is used to excite the non-classical SPPs and the re-emitted quantum state is fully quantum characterized by complete tomographic reconstruction of the density matrix. We find that the plasmon-assisted transmission of non-classical light in metallic waveguides can be described by a Hamiltonian analogue to a beam splitter. This result is explained theoretically.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.3969,
title = {Demonstration of Quadrature Squeezed Surface-Plasmons in a Gold Waveguide},
author = {Alexander Huck and Stephan Smolka and Peter Lodahl and Anders S. Soerensen and Alexandra Boltasseva and Jiri Janousek and Ulrik L. Andersen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3969},
year = {2011}
}