On-demand transfer of trapped photons on a chip
| Autor: | Ryotaro Konoike, Haruyuki Nakagawa, Susumu Noda, Masahiro Nakadai, Yoshinori Tanaka, Takashi Asano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Optics and Photonics
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| Zdroj: | Science Advances |
| ISSN: | 2375-2548 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/sciadv.1501690 |
| Popis: | Researchers experimentally demonstrate on-demand transfer of trapped photons on a photonic crystal chip for the first time. Photonic crystal nanocavities, which have modal volumes of the order of a cubic wavelength in the material, are of great interest as flexible platforms for manipulating photons. Recent developments in ultra-high quality factor nanocavities with long photon lifetimes have encouraged us to develop an ultra-compact and flexible photon manipulation technology where photons are trapped in networks of such nanocavities. The most fundamental requirement is the on-demand transfer of photons to and from the trapped states of arbitrary nanocavities. We experimentally demonstrate photon transfer between two nearly resonant nanocavities at arbitrary positions on a chip, triggered by the irradiation of a third nonresonant nanocavity using an optical control pulse. We obtain a high transfer efficiency of ~90% with a photon lifetime of ~200 ps. |
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