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We propose an approach to analyze the dissipation properties of coupled cavity arrays. Employing a kind of quasi-boson, it is shown that the coupling to a bath renormalizes the localized mode and the interaction between cavities. By virtue…
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We report on the realization of an optical microcavity consisting in the plane-plane arrangement of two suspended resonant mirrors possessing spectrally overlapping high-quality factor internal resonances. We first investigate its generic…
We present a two-waveguide coupler which, realizes complete achromatic all-optical switching. The coupling of the waveguides has a hyperbolic-secant shape while the phase mismatch has a sign flip at the maximum of the coupling. We derive an…
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