English
Related papers

Related papers: Enhancement of Kerr nonlinearity via multi-photon …

200 papers

Nonreciprocal optical systems have found many applications altering the linear transmission of light as a function of its propagation direction. Here we consider a new class of nonreciprocity which appears in photon pair correlations and…

We show that a nonlinear optical response associated with a resonant, atomically thin material can be dramatically enhanced by placing it in front of a partially reflecting mirror, rendering otherwise weakly nonlinear systems suitable for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dominik S. Wild , Ephraim Shahmoon , Susanne F. Yelin , Mikhail D. Lukin

Raman-type laser excitation of a trapped atom allows one to realize the quantum mechanical counterpart of phenomena of nonlinear optics, such as Kerr-type nonlinearities, parametric amplification, and multi-mode mixing. Additionally, huge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Wallentowitz , W. Vogel

In a previous letter we studied the giant optical nonlinearities of a Rydberg atomic medium within an optical cavity, in the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. In particular, we calculated the non-linear contributions to the spectrum of the light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 A. Grankin , P. Grangier , E. Brion

We present a comprehensive analysis of the the nonlinear optical Kerr effect in graphene. We directly solve the S-matrix element to calculate the absorption rate, utilizing the Volkov-Keldysh- type crystal wave functions. We then convert to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniel B. S. Soh , Ryan Hamerly , Hideo Mabuchi

Strong nonlinear interactions between quantized excitations are an important resource for quantum technologies based on bosonic oscillator modes. However, most electromagnetic and mechanical nonlinearities arising from intrinsic material…

Nonlinear magneto-optics is a very sensitive fingerprint of the electronic, magnetic, and atomic structure of surfaces, interfaces, and thin ferromagnetic films. Analyzing theoretically the nonlinear magneto-optical Kerr effect for thin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 U. Pustogowa , T. A. Luce , W. Hubner , K. H. Bennemann

Using the numerical solution of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and a variational method it is shown that (3+1)-dimensional spatiotemporal optical solitons, known as light bullets, can be stabilized in a layered Kerr medium with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Sadhan K. Adhikari

We report an experimental demonstration of photon switching by quantum interference in a four-level atomic system proposed by Harris and Yamamoto (Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3611 (1998)). Quantum interference inhibits single-photon absorption but…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Min Yan , Edward G. Rickey , Yifu Zhu

We analyze the nonlinear optical response of a five-level system under a novel configuration of electro-magnetically induced transparency. We show that a giant Kerr nonlinearity with a relatively large cross-phase modulation coefficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yun Li , Chao Hang , Lei Ma , Guoxiang Huang

We show how the measurement induced model of quantum computation proposed by Raussendorf and Briegel [Phys. Rev. Letts. 86, 5188 (2001)] can be adapted to a nonlinear optical interaction. This optical implementation requires a Kerr…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. D. Hutchinson , G. J. Milburn

We investigate the interplay between quantum correlations, quantified by the global quantum discord and quantum Fisher information in a multi two-level system interacting with a single mode Fock field. Our model incorporates Kerr like non…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 M. Ibrahim , S. Jamal Anwar , S. Abdel-Khalek , M. Ramzan , M. Khalid Khan

Recent years have seen increased interest to plasmonic enhancement of nonlinear optical effects, yet there remains an uncertainty of what are the limits of this enhancement. We present a simple and physically transparent theory of plasmonic…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-26 Jacob B Khurgin , Greg Sun

We introduce a loss compensation method to increase the resolution of near-field imaging with a plasmonic superlens that relies on the convolution of a high spatial frequency passband function with the object. Implementation with incoherent…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-23 Wyatt Adams , Anindya Ghoshroy , Durdu Ö. Güney

The accuracy of quantum measurements can be effectively improved by using both photon-added non-Gaussian operations and Kerr nonlinear phase shifters. Here, we employ coherent state mixed photon-added squeezed vacuum state as input into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Shoukang Chang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

We study controllable single photon scattering in a one-dimensional waveguide coupling with an additional cavity by second order nonlinear materials in a non-cascading configuration, where the additional cavity is embedded with two-level…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Hongyu Lin , Xiaoqian Wang , Zhihai Yao , Dandan Zou

We study the photon blockade effect in a coupled cavity system, which is formed by a linear cavity coupled to a Kerr-type nonlinear cavity via a photon-hopping interaction. We explain the physical phenomenon from the viewpoint of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Fen Zou , Deng-Gao Lai , Jie-Qiao Liao

Quantum entanglement is a crucial resource in quantum technologies, enabling advancements in quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum precision measurement. Here, we propose a method to enhance optomechanical entanglement by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Yan Li , Cheng Liu , Yu-Hong Liu , Yue-Hui Zhou , Jie-Qiao Liao

In cavity optomechanics, nanomechanical motion couples to a localized optical mode. The regime of single-photon strong coupling is reached when the optical shift induced by a single phonon becomes comparable to the cavity linewidth. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 Max Ludwig , Amir H. Safavi-Naeini , Oskar Painter , Florian Marquardt

We investigate nonlinear one- and two-dimensional photonic crystals by applying a finite element-iterative method.Numerical results show the essential influence of nonlinear elements embedded into a quarter-wave stack and the sharp photonic…