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Frontiers in Optics

Switching Quantum Interference with Phase-change Reconfigurable Metasurfaces

Nooshin M. Estakhri, Theodore B. Norris

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show how a metasurface incorporating a thermally controlled phase-change material (i.e. GeTe) can enable tunable quantum interference, switching between coalescence and anti-coalescence.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2020.fm7e.7

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