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Optical microcavities confine light spatially and temporally and find application in a wide range of fundamental and applied studies. In many areas, the microcavity figure of merit is not only determined by photon lifetime (or the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. J. Kippenberg , S. M. Spillane , K. J. Vahala

Open Fabry-Perot microcavities represent a promising route for achieving a quantum electrodynamics (cavity-QED) platform with diamond-based emitters. In particular, they offer the opportunity to introduce high purity, minimally fabricated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Erika Janitz , Maximilian Ruf , Mark Dimock , Alexandre Bourassa , Jack Sankey , Lilian Childress

Quantum field theory predicts that a spatially homogeneous but temporally varying medium will excite photon pairs out of the vacuum state. However, this important theoretical prediction lacks experimental verification due to the difficulty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 A. Prain , S. Vezzoli , N. Westerberg , T. Roger , D. Faccio

Exceptional points (EPs), singularities of non-Hermitian physics where complex spectral resonances degenerate, are one of the most exotic features of nonequilibrium open systems with unique properties. For instance, the emission rate of…

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…

Single-photon emitters integrated in optical micro-cavities are key elements in quantum communication applications. However, optimizing their emission properties and achieving efficient cavity coupling remain significant challenges. In this…

In this work, we investigate the response of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials and plasmonic materials to electromagnetic source excitation. The use of these media for tailoring the phase of radiation pattern of arbitrary sources is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-04 Andrea Alu , Mario Silveirinha , Alessandro Salandrino , Nader Engheta

The spectra of two-dimensional photonic crystal slab nanocavities with embedded InAs quantum dots are measured by photoluminescence and reflectance. In comparing the spectra taken by these two different methods, consistency with the…

Exceptional points (EPs), intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems, exhibit singular spectral responses with extreme sensitivity to external perturbations, offering new opportunities for precision sensing. In this work, we investigate the sensing…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-29 Neha Ahlawat , Saurabh Mani Tripathi

Entangled photon sources (EPSs) are pivotal in advancing quantum communication, computing and sensing. The demand for deploying efficient, robust EPSs in the field, characterized by exceptional (phase) stability, has become increasingly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Giacomo Paganini , Alvaro Cuevas , Robin Camphausen , Alexander Demuth , Valerio Pruneri

The increased decay rate of a two-level system weakly coupled to an optical cavity, known as the Purcell effect, is a cornerstone of cavity QED. However, the effect of cavity coupling is not well understood if the two-level system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Charlie Nation , Valentina Notararigo , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Planar microcavities with distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) host, besides confined optical modes, also mechanical resonances due to stop bands in the phonon dispersion relation of the DBRs. These resonances have frequencies in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Czerniuk , C. Brueggemann , J. Tepper , S. Brodbeck , C. Schneider , M. Kamp , S. Hoefling , B. A. Glavin , D. R. Yakovlev , A. V. Akimov , M. Bayer

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

In this paper, we propose a microcavity supported by a designed photonic crystal structure (PhC) that supplies both tunability of cavity modes and quality factor of cavity. Low symmetric defect region provides a trigger effect for the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 Melike A. Gumus , Mediha Tutgun , Done Yilmaz , Hamza Kurt

There is a need for techniques for efficient and accurate measurement of the impedance of rechargeable batteries at extra-low frequencies (ELFs, typically below 10uHz), as these reflect real usage and cycling patterns, and their importance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-17 Christopher Dunn , Jonathan Scott

There is immense scientific interest in the properties of resonant thin films embroidered with periodic nanoscale features. This device class possesses considerable innovation potential. Accordingly, we report unpolarized broadband…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-08 Manoj Niraula , Robert Magnusson

We report an easy-to-fabricate microcavity design to produce optically pumped high-$\beta$ quantum dot microlasers. Our cavity concept is based on a buried photonic-defect for tight lateral mode confinement in a quasi-planar microcavity…

Halide perovskite semiconductors have emerged as promising materials for the development of solution-processed, scalable, high performance optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as well as coherent single photon…

A previous work [1] experimentally confirmed that the special polarization characteristic features of a three-dimensional terahertz (THz) photonic crystal with a silicon inverse diamond structure whose lattice point shape was vacant regular…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-20 Chikara Sakurai

Dynamical materials that capable of responding to optical stimuli have always been pursued for designing novel photonic devices and functionalities, of which the response speed and amplitude as well as integration adaptability and energy…