Quantum light transport in a nanophotonic waveguide coupled to an atomic ensemble

Guo‐Zhu Song, Jin-Liang Guo, Wei Nie, L. C. Kwek, Gui‐Lu Long

Published Mar 14, 2020• 0 citations

Abstract

Realizing efficient interactions between photons and multiple quantum emitters is an important ingredient in quantum optics and quantum information processing. Here we theoretically study the optical properties of an ensemble of two-level atoms coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide. In our model, the atoms are randomly located in the lattice sites along the one-dimensional waveguide. The results reveal that the optical transport properties of the atomic ensemble are influenced by the lattice constant and the filling factor of the lattice sites. We also focus on the atomic mirror configuration and quantify the effect of the inhomogeneous broadening in atomic resonant transition on the scattering spectrum. Since atoms are randomly placed in the lattice sites, we analyze the influence of the atomic spatial distributions on the transmission spectrum. Furthermore, we find that initial bunching and quantum beats appear in photon-photon correlation function of the transmitted field, which are significantly changed by filling factor of the lattice sites. With great progress to interface quantum emitters with nanophotonics, our results should be experimentally realizable in the near future.

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