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arXiv:1412.8562

Tunable narrow band source via the strong coupling between optical emitter and nanowire surface plasmons

Jie Yang, Guang Lin, Yueping Niu, Yunping Qi, Feng Zhou, Shuang Gong

Published Dec 30, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

The spectrum width can be narrowed to a certain degree by decreasing the coupling strength for the two-level emitter coupled to the propagating surface plasmon. But the width can not be narrowed any further because of the loss of the photon out of system by spontaneous emission from the emitter. Here we propose a new scheme to construct a narrow-band source via a one-dimensional waveguide coupling with a three-level emitter. It is shown that the reflective spectrum width can be narrowed avoiding the impact of the loss. This approach opens up the possibility of plasmonic ultranarrow single-photon source.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1412.8562

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