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Comparative study of surface plasmon scattering by shallow ridges and grooves
We revisit the scattering of surface plasmons by shallow surface defects for
both protrusions and indentations of various lengths, which are deemed infinite
in one-dimension parallel to the surface. Subwavelength protrusions and
indentations of equal shape present different scattering coefficients when
their height and width are comparable. In this case, a protrusion scatters
plasmons like a vertical point-dipole on a plane, while an indentation scatters
like a horizontal point-dipole on a plane. We corroborate that long and shallow
asymmetrically-shaped surface defects have very similar scattering, as already
found with approximate methods. In the transition from short shallow scatterers
to long shallow scatterers the radiation can be understood in terms of
interference between a vertical and a horizontal dipole. The results attained
numerically are exact and accounted for with analytical models
Effect of defect depth on surface plasmon scattering by subwavelength surface defects
10 páginas, 13 figuras, 1 tabla.-- PACS number(s): 42.82.EtSurface plasmon scattering by bidimensional indentations and protrusions is examined, mainly in the optical regime. The width of the defects is fixed, while their height is varied. Both individual defects and arrays of defects are considered. Protrusions mainly reflect the incident plasmons in the optical range. Indentations mainly radiate the incident plasmon out of plane. An indentation produces maximum reflection and out-of-plane radiation at the same wavelength when its interaction with the incident surface plasmon is resonant. Protrusions, in general, exhibit maximum reflection and radiation at different wavelengths. Shallow arrays of either defects produce a photonic band gap, whose spectral width can be broadened by increasing the defects height or depth. At wavelengths inside the band gap, ridge arrays reflect surface plasmon polaritons (SPP’s) better than groove arrays while groove arrays radiate SPP’s better than ridge arrays.The authors acknowledge financial support from the
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under Grant
Nos. MAT2008-06609-C02, AP2005-5185, and CSD2007-
046-Nanolight.es.Peer reviewe
Nonlinear quantum optics in the (ultra)strong light-matter coupling
The propagation of photons in one dimensional waveguides coupled to
qubits is discussed, both in the strong and ultrastrong qubit-waveguide
coupling. Special emphasis is placed on the characterisation of the nonlinear
response and its linear limit for the scattered photons as a function of ,
, qubit inter distance and light-matter coupling. The quantum evolution is
numerically solved via the Matrix Product States technique. Both the time
evolution for the field and qubits is computed. The nonlinear character (as a
function of ) depends on the computed observable. While perfect reflection
is obtained for , photon-photon correlations are still resolved
for ratios . Inter-qubit distance enhances the nonlinear response.
Moving to the ultrastrong coupling regime, we observe that inelastic processes
are \emph{robust} against the number of qubits and that the qubit-qubit
interaction mediated by the photons is qualitatively modified. The theory
developed in this work modelises experiments in circuit QED, photonic crystals
and dielectric waveguides.Comment: Comments are wellcom
Scattering in the ultrastrong regime: nonlinear optics with one photon
The scattering of a flying photon by a two-level system ultrastrongly coupled
to a one-dimensional photonic waveguide is studied numerically. The photonic
medium is modeled as an array of coupled cavities and the whole system is
analyzed beyond the rotating wave approximation using Matrix Product States. It
is found that the scattering is strongly influenced by the single- and
multi-photon dressed bound states present in the system. In the ultrastrong
coupling regime a new channel for inelastic scattering appears, where an
incident photon deposits energy into the qubit, exciting a photon-bound state,
and escaping with a lower frequency. This single-photon nonlinear frequency
conversion process can reach up to 50\% efficiency. Other remarkable features
in the scattering induced by counter-rotating terms are a blueshift of the
reflection resonance and a Fano resonance due to long-lived excited statesComment: 5+4 page
Scattering coefficients of surface plasmon polaritons impinging at oblique incidence onto one-dimensional surface relief defects
4 pages, 4 figures.-- PACS number(s): 73.20.Mf, 78.67. n, 41.20.JbWe present a theoretical analysis of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) scattering by shallow one-dimensional surface relief defects for oblique incidence, applying both surface impedance boundary conditions and Rayleigh expansion. Using this method, nontrivial angular dependences for transmission, reflection, and out-of-plane scattering are obtained. For the case of a defect with rectangular shape, we give an analytical description of the interference phenomena caused by the SPP diffraction for both a single defect (either protrusion or indentation) and a finite array of them.The authors acknowledge financial support from the INTAS
YS Grant No. 05-109-5206, the European Network of
Excellence Plasmo-Nano-Devices (Grant No. FP6-2002-IST-
1-507879 , the STREP “Surface Plasmon Photonics” Grant
No. FP6-NMP4-CT2003-505699), and the Spanish MCyT
Project No. MAT2005-06608-C02.Peer reviewe
One- and two-photon scattering from generalized V-type atoms
The one- and two-photon scattering matrix S is obtained analytically for a
one-dimensional waveguide and a point-like scatterer with N excited levels
(generalized V -type atom). We argue that the two-photon scattering matrix
contains sufficient information to distinguish between different level
structures which are equivalent for single-photon scattering, such as a V -atom
with N = 2 excited levels and two two-level systems. In particular, we show
that the scattering with the V -type atom exhibits a destructive interference
effect leading to two-photon Coupled-Resonator-Induced Transparency, where the
nonlinear part of the two-photon scattering matrix vanishes when each incident
photon fulfills a single-photon condition for transparency
Single photons by quenching the vacuum
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle implies that the quantum vacuum is not
empty but fluctuates. These fluctuations can be converted into radiation
through nonadiabatic changes in the Hamiltonian. Here, we discuss how to
control this vacuum radiation, engineering a single-photon emitter out of a
two-level system (2LS) ultrastrongly coupled to a finite-band waveguide in a
vacuum state. More precisely, we show the 2LS nonlinearity shapes the vacuum
radiation into a nonGaussian superposition of even and odd cat states. When the
2LS bare frequency lays within the band gaps, this emission can be well
approximated by individual photons. This picture is confirmed by a
characterization of the ground and bound states, and a study of the dynamics
with matrix product states and polaron Hamiltonian methods.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure
Propiedades topológicas en nanofotónica: materiales de anchura atómica en presencia de nanoestructuras metálicas
En este trabajo se combinan los materiales bidimensionales o de anchura atómicas con las estructuras metálicas perforadas con el objetivo de desarrollar un modelo teórico capaz de abarcar los resultados experimentales que estos sistemas han producido: C. Genet et al. en ACS Photonics, 5(4):1281–1287, January 2018. <br /
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