Optical Engineering

Controlling the light propagation in one-dimensional photonic crystal via incoherent pump and interdot tunneling

Majid Abbasabadi, Mostafa Sahrai

Published Jan 25, 2018• 3 citations

Abstract

We investigated the propagation of an electromagnetic pulse through a one-dimensional photonic crystal doped with quantum-dot (QD) molecules in a defect layer. The QD molecules behave as a three-level quantum system and are driven by a coherent probe laser field and an incoherent pump field. No coherent coupling laser fields were introduced, and the coherence was created by the interdot tunnel effect. Further studied was the effect of tunneling and incoherent pumping on the group velocity of the transmitted and reflected probe pulse.

DOI: 10.1117/1.oe.57.1.016112

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