Dresden 2011 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 8: Photonics 1
Q 8.3: Vortrag
Montag, 14. März 2011, 11:00–11:15, SCH A215
A photon diode made from linear optical materials — •Jörg Evers1, Keyu Xia1, and Shi-Yao Zhu2 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany — 2Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China
We discuss methods to achieve a photon diode using simple setups relying on linear optical materials only. The diode is a fundamental building block for all-optical communication or computation infrastructures with two ports which transmits light entering from one side, but blocks light entering from the other side. Our implementations do not require any external fields, non-linear materials, or magneto-optical effects, and therefore are scalable and compatible with on-chip operation. The operation is demenstrated both using quantum mechanical coupled mode theory and full time-dependent numerical solutions of the underlying Maxwell equations to verify the operation of our device.