Light controlled photon tunneling
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Recent measurements of photon tunneling through individual subwavelength pinholes in a gold film covered with a layer of polydiacetylene (Phys. Rev. Letters 88, 187402 (2002)) provided strong indication of "photon blockade" effect similar to Coulomb blockade phenomenon observed in single-electron tunneling experiments. Here we report first observation of photon tunneling been blocked (gated) by light at a different wavelength. This observation suggests possibility of building new class of photon tunneling gating devices for all-optical signal processing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0205160,
title = {Light controlled photon tunneling},
author = {I. I. Smolyaninov and A. V. Zayats and C. C. Davis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0205160},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 3 figures