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ArticleNature communications2021

Temporal loss boundary engineered photonic cavity.

Longqing Cong, Jiaguang Han, Weili Zhang, Ranjan Singh

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Longqing CongDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China. conglq@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2839-5940
Jiaguang HanCenter for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9425-9635
Weili ZhangSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8591-0200
Ranjan SinghDivision of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637371, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8068-7428

Funding

Ministry of Education - Singapore (MOE) MOE2016-T3-1-006National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62175099National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister's office, Republic of Singapore) NRF-CRP23-2019-0005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Losses are ubiquitous and unavoidable in nature inhibiting the performance of most optical processes. Manipulating losses to adjust the dissipation of photons is analogous to braking a running car that is as important as populating photons via a gain medium. Here, we introduce the transient loss boundary into a photon populated cavity that functions as a 'photon brake' and probe photon dynamics by engineering the 'brake timing' and 'brake strength'. Coupled cavity photons can be distinguished by stripping one photonic mode through controlling the loss boundary, which enables the transition from a coupled to an uncoupled state. We interpret the transient boundary as a perturbation by considering both real and imaginary parts of permittivity, and the dynamic process is modeled with a temporal two-dipole oscillator: one with the natural resonant polarization and the other with a frequency-shift polarization. The model unravels the underlying mechanism of concomitant coherent spectral oscillations and generation of tone-tuning cavity photons in the braking process. By synthesizing the temporal loss boundary into a photon populated cavity, a plethora of interesting phenomena and applications are envisioned such as the observation of quantum squeezed states, low-loss nonreciprocal waveguides and ultrafast beam scanning devices.

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