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Physical Review A

Resonance fluorescence spectrum of a Λ -type quantum emitter close to a metallic nanoparticle

F. Carreño, M. A. Antón, Vassilios Yannopapas, Emmanuel Paspalakis

Published Jul 19, 2016• 45 citations
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Abstract

We theoretically study the resonance fluorescence spectrum of a three-level quantum emitter coupled to a spherical metallic nanoparticle. We consider the case in which the quantum emitter is driven by a single laser field along one of the optical transitions. We show that the development of the spectrum depends on the relative orientation of the dipole moments of the optical transitions in relation to the metal nanoparticle. In addition, we demonstrate that the location and width of the peaks in the spectrum are strongly modified by the exciton-plasmon coupling and the laser detuning, allowing one to achieve a controlled strongly subnatural spectral line. A strong antibunching of the fluorescent photons along the undriven transition is also obtained. Our results may be used for creating a tunable source of photons which could be used for a probabilistic entanglement scheme in the field of quantum information processing.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.94.013834

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