Single-photon nonlinear optics with Kerr-type nanostructured materials
Abstract
We employ a quantum theory of the nonlinear optical response from an actual solid-state material possessing an intrinsic bulk contribution to the third-order nonlinear susceptibility (Kerr-type nonlinearity), which can be arbitrarily nanostructured to achieve diffraction-limited electro-magnetic-field confinement. By calculating the zero-time-delay second-order correlation of the cavity field, we set the conditions for using semiconductor or insulating materials with near-infrared energy gaps as an efficient means to obtain single-photon nonlinear behavior in prospective solid-state integrated devices, alternative to ideal sources of quantum radiation such as, e.g., single two-level emitters.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- January 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.033303
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1201.5072
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvB..85c3303F
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.Ar;
- 42.65.-k;
- 78.67.Pt;
- Photon statistics and coherence theory;
- Nonlinear optics;
- Multilayers;
- superlattices;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Physics - Optics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, three figures