All-optical switch and transistor based on coherent light-controlled single two-level atom coupling with two nanowires
Abstract
Atom-nanowire coupling system is a promising platform for optical quantum information processing. Unlike the previous designing of optical switch and transistor requiring a dedicated multi-level emitter and high fineness microcavity, a new proposal is put forward which contains a single two-level atom asymmetrically coupled with two nanowires. Single-emitter manipulation of photonic signals for bilateral coherent incident is clear now, since we specify atomic saturation nonlinearity into three contributions which brings us a new approach to realizing light-controlled-light at weak light and single-atom levels. An efficient optically controllable switch based on self-matching-induced-block and a concise optical transistor are proposed. Our findings show potential applications in full-optical devices.
- Publication:
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Chinese Physics B
- Pub Date:
- November 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1674-1056/ab48f2
- Bibcode:
- 2019ChPhB..28k4207Z
- Keywords:
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- optical transistor;
- optical switch;
- nano-waveguide;
- light-controlled-light