Physical Review Applied

Environmentally Induced Photon Blockade via Two-Photon Absorption

Y. H. Zhou, Xing-Yuan Zhang, Tong Liu, Qi‐Cheng Wu, Zhi‐Cheng Shi, H. Z. Shen, Chui‐Ping Yang

Published Dec 5, 2022• 30 citations

Abstract

We propose that photon blockade can be enabled by a two-photon absorption environment. The validity of this conclusion is confirmed by studying the blockade in a driven single-mode cavity. The feature of this environmentally induced photon blockade is that the nonlinear interaction in the system is not needed, which is entirely different from the conventional and the unconventional blockade mechanisms. We clearly give the physics behind this blockade mechanism. And the advantages of this environmentally induced photon blockade are discovered by comparing it with the conventional mechanism in a weakly driven region. In addition, we show that the proposal can be generalized straightforwardly to realize environmentally induced photon blockade in two coupled single-mode cavities.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.18.064009

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