Optics Letters

Correlation and squeezing for optical transistor and intensity router applications in diamond NV center

Noor Alam Ahmed, Ghulam Abbas Khan, Ruimin Wang, Jingru Hou, Rui Gong, Lingmeng Yang, Yanpeng Zhang

Published Apr 24, 2017• 13 citations

Abstract

We study an optical transistor (switch and amplifier) and router by spontaneous parametric four-wave mixing and fluorescence in diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center. The routing results from three peaks of fluorescence signal in the time domain, while the switching and amplification are realized by correlation and squeezing. The intensity switching speed is about 17 ns. The optical transistor and router are controlled by the power of incident beams. Our experimental results provide that the advance technique of peak division and channel equalization ratio of about 90% are applicable to all optical switching and routing.

DOI: 10.1364/ol.42.001788

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