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View SchemaStrong coupling of single emitters to surface plasmons
| Authors | D. E. Chang, A. S. Sorensen, P. R. Hemmer, M. D. Lukin |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0603221 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603221 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.035420 |
Abstract
We propose a method that enables strong, coherent coupling between individual optical emitters and electromagnetic excitations in conducting nano-structures. The excitations are optical plasmons that can be localized to sub-wavelength dimensions. Under realistic conditions, the tight confinement causes optical emission to be almost entirely directed into the propagating plasmon modes via a mechanism analogous to cavity quantum electrodynamics. We first illustrate this result for the case of a nanowire, before considering the optimized geometry of a nanotip. We describe an application of this technique involving efficient single-photon generation on demand, in which the plasmons are efficiently out-coupled to a dielectric waveguide. Finally we analyze the effects of increased scattering due to surface roughness on these nano-structures.
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