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Unusual emission of visible light is observed in scanning tunneling microscopy of the quantum well system Na on Cu(111). Photons are emitted at energies exceeding the energy of the tunneling electrons. Model calculations of two-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Germar Hoffmann , Richard Berndt , Peter Johansson

We propose and characterize a two-photon emitter in a highly polarised, monochromatic and directional beam, realized by means of a quantum dot embedded in a linearly polarized cavity. In our scheme, the cavity frequency is tuned to half the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 E. del Valle , A. Gonzalez-Tudela , E. Cancellieri , F. P. Laussy , C. Tejedor

We investigate the 2nd order process of two photons being emitted by a high-energy electron dressed in the strong background electric field found between the planes in a crystal. The strong crystalline field combined with ultra relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-21 Tobias N. Wistisen

Few- and single-cycle optical pulses and their associated ultra-broadband spectra have been crucial in the progress of ultrafast science and technology. Moreover, multi-color waveforms composed of independently manipulable ultrashort pulses…

Multi-photon emitters are a sought-after resource in quantum photonics. Nonlinear interactions between a multi-level atomic system and a coherent drive can lead to resonant two-photon emission, but harvesting light from this process has…

We report the first experimental observations of two-photon emission from semiconductors, to the best of our knowledge, and develop a corresponding theory for the room-temperature process. Spontaneous two-photon emission is demonstrated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-25 Alex Hayat , Pavel Ginzburg , Meir Orenstein

Field-emission of electrons underlies major advances in science and technology, ranging from imaging the atomic-scale structure of matter to signal processing at ever-higher frequencies. The advancement of these applications to their…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-22 H. Y. Kim , M. Garg , S. Mandal , L. Seiffert , T. Fennel , E. Goulielmakis

Radiative two-photon cascades from biexcitons in semiconductor quantum dots under resonant two-photon excitation are promising candidates for the generation of photon pairs. In this work, we propose a scheme to obtain two-photon emission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Fabrice P. Laussy , Carlos Tejedor , Elena del Valle

Near-field optical microscopy and spectroscopy provide high-resolution imaging below the diffraction limit, crucial in physics, chemistry, and biology for studying molecules, nanoparticles, and viruses. These techniques use a sharp metallic…

A non-classical light source emitting pairs of identical photons represents a versatile resource of interdisciplinary importance with applications in quantum optics and quantum biology. Emerging research fields, which benefit from such type…

ultiwalled carbon nanotubes, prepared by both electric arc discharge and chemical vapor deposition methods, show a strong visible light emission in photoluminescence experiments. All the samples employed in the experiments exhibit nearly…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 H. X. Han , G. H. Li , W. K. Ge , Z. P. Wang , Z. Y. Xu , S. S. Xie , B. H. Chang , L. F. Sun , B. S. Wang , G. Xu , Z. B. Su

In this work, we investigate the emission properties of double quantum dot driven by a monochromatic electromagnetic field, while undergoing resonant tunneling and dissipation by phonons. We found emission spectra for both cases, with and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 Jonathan C. Lemus , Hanz Y. Ramírez

Tho-photon absorption holds potential for many practical applications. We theoretically investigate the onset of this phenomenon in a semiconductor quantum dot -- metallic nanoshell composite subjected to a resonant CW excitation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Bintoro S. Nugroho , Alexander A. Iskandar , Victor A. Malyshev , Jasper Knoester

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have emerged as new optoelectronic materials in the two dimensional (2D) limit, exhibiting rich spin-valley interplays, tunable excitonic effects, and strong light-matter interactions.…

As a high-order quantum transition, two-photon emission has an extremely low occurrence rate compared to one-photon emission, thus having been considered a forbidden process. Here, we propose a scheme that allows ultrafast two-photon…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-14 Futai Hu , Liu Li , Yuan Liu , Yuan Meng , Mali Gong , Yuanmu Yang

Long-distance quantum communication relies on the ability to efficiently generate and prepare single photons at telecom wavelengths. In many applications these photons must also be indistinguishable such that they exhibit interference on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Je-Hyung Kim , Tao Cai , Christopher J. K. Richardson , Richard P. Leavitt , Edo Waks

We observed two-photon emission signals from the first vibrationally excited state of parahydrogen gas excited coherently by counter-propagating laser pulses. A single narrow-linewidth laser source was used to excite the parahydrogen…

Quantized nano-objects offer a myriad of exciting possibilities for manipulating electrons and light that impact photonics, nanoelectronics, and quantum information. In this context, ultrashort laser pulses combined with nanotips and field…

Interactions between solid-state quantum emitters and cavities are important for a broad range of applications in quantum communication, linear optical quantum computing, nonlinear photonics, and photonic quantum simulation. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 Je-Hyung Kim , Christopher J. K. Richardson , Richard P. Leavitt , Edo Waks

How to utilize topological microcavities to control quantum emission is one of the ongoing research topics in the optical community. In this work, we investigate the emission of quantum emitters in doubly-resonant topological Tamm…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-11 Chenmin Xu , Chong Sheng , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu