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The authors investigate the spontaneous emission dynamics of self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots embedded in GaAs photonic crystal waveguides. For an ensemble of dots coupled to guided modes in the waveguide we report spatially, spectrally,…

Efficient generation of radiation in the mid- and far- infrared relies primarily on lasers and coherent nonlinear optical phenomena driven by lasers. This wavelength range lacks of luminescent devices because the spontaneous emission rate…

We study the spontaneous emission of a dipole emitter imbedded into a layered metal-dielectric metamaterial. We demonstrate ultra-high values of the Purcell factor in such structures due to a high density of states with hyperbolic…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ivan Iorsh , Alexander Poddubny , Alexey Orlov , Pavel Belov , Yuri Kivshar

We study the unconventional transmission properties of a wave-packet through a PT-symmetric potential region, as describing actual electromagnetic wave propagation along a waveguide filled with gain and loss media. The non-trivial behavior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 M. Di Mauro , S. Esposito , A. Naddeo

The radiation dynamics of optical emitters can be manipulated by properly designed material structures providing high local density of photonic states, a phenomenon often referred to as the Purcell effect. Plasmonic nanorod metamaterials…

The Purcell effect describes the modification of the spontaneous decay rate in the presence of electromagnetic media and bodies. In this work, we shed light on the dependencies and magnitude of this effect for chiral materials. Using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 C. S. Rapp , Janine C. Franz , S. Y. Buhmann , O. J. Franca

The PT-symmetric waveguides have been frequently discussed in the photonics community due to their extraordinary properties. Especially, the study of power transmission is significant for switching applications. The aim of this study is to…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-11 Chengnian Huang , Zhihao Lan , Menglin L. N. Chen , Wei E. I. Sha

We have studied theoretically the Purcell factor which characterizes a change in the emission rate of an electric or magnetic dipole embedded in the center of a spherical cavity. The main attention is paid to the analysis of cavities with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko , A. N. Poddubny , G. Khitrova

We describe how a structured photonic medium controls the spontaneous emission rate from an excited quantum dot in the presence of electron-phonon coupling. We analyze this problem using a polaron transformed master equation and we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Kaushik Roy-Choudhury , Stephen Hughes

We investigate spontaneous emission from a quantum emitter located within the mode volume of a microring resonator that features chiral exceptional points. We show that this configuration offers enough degrees of freedom to exhibit a full…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-17 Q. Zhong , A. Hashemi , S. K. Ozdemir , R. El-Ganainy

Improvements both in the photonic confinement and in the emitter design have led to a steady increase in the strength of the light-matter coupling in cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments. This has allowed to access…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-10 Simone De Liberato

Parity-time-symmetric ($\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric) optical waveguide couplers have become a key component for integrated optics. They offer new possibilities for fast, ultracompact, configurable, all-optical signal processing. Here, we study…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-14 Wiktor Walasik , Natalia M. Litchinitser

We present a heuristic mathematical model of the relation between the geometry of a photonic crystal waveguide and the Purcell enhancement factor at a particular wavelength of interest. We use this model to propose approaches to the design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 Alexander Shurinov , Ivan Dyakonov , Sergei Kulik , Stanislav Straupe

A theoretical model for describing the emission spectra of microsphere cavities is presented, and its prediction of detailed lineshapes of emission spectra associated with whispering gallery modes (WGMs) of various orders in ZnO…

Despite the benefits that directional coupler based parity-time symmetric systems may offer to the field of integrated optics, the realization of such couplers relies on rather strict design constraints on the waveguide parameters. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-23 Chicheng Ma , Wiktor Walasik , Natalia M. Litchinitser

High quality factor dielectric cavities designed to a nanoscale accuracy are mostly used to increase the spontaneous emission rate of a single emitter. Here we show that the coupling, at room temperature, between thick shell CdSe/CdS…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. Canneson , I. Mallek-Zouari , S. Buil , X. Quélin , C. Javaux , B. Mahler , B. Dubertret , J. -P. Hermier

The Purcell factor quantifies the change of the radiative decay of a dipole in an electromagnetic environment relative to free space. Designing this factor is at the heart of photonics technology, striving to develop ever smaller or less…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 E. A. Muljarov , W. Langbein

Scattering processes in an optical microcavity are investigated for the case of silicon nanocrystals embedded in an ultra-high Q toroid microcavity. Using a novel measurement technique based on the observable mode-splitting, we demonstrate…

Quantum states of light and matter can be manipulated on the nanoscale to provide a technological resource for aiding the implementation of scalable photonic quantum technologies [1-3]. Experimental progress relies on the quality and…

We demonstrate a single-photon source based on a quantum dot in a micropost microcavity that exhibits a large Purcell factor together with a small multi-photon probability. For a quantum dot on resonance with the cavity, the spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jelena Vuckovic , David Fattal , Charles Santori , Glenn Solomon , Yoshihisa Yamamoto