Applied Physics Letters

Ultrafast switching by controlling Rabi splitting

Gianluca Manzacca, Gabriella Cincotti, Kurt Hingerl

Published Dec 3, 2007• 23 citations

Abstract

We analyze the behavior of a quantum dot embedded in an add-drop filter for optical signal processing applications. The joint effects of dipole induced transparency and electromagnetic induced transparency, which shift the transparency peak induced by a dipole in an add-drop filter due to vacuum Rabi splitting, have been considered. The mathematical model and some different conditions for tuning the transparency peak are derived for application to all optical switching and wavelength tunable devices.

DOI: 10.1063/1.2822820

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