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Enhanced and directional single-photon emission in hyperbolic metamaterials |
JOSA B, Vol. 30, Issue 4, pp. 766-775 (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.30.000766
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Abstract
We propose an approach to enhance and direct the spontaneous emission from isolated emitters embedded inside hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) into single-photon beams. The approach rests on collective plasmonic Bloch modes of HMMs, which propagate in highly directional beams called quantum resonance cones. We propose a pumping scheme using the transparency window of the HMM that occurs near the topological transition. Finally, we address the challenge of outcoupling these broadband resonance cones into vacuum using a dielectric bullseye grating. We give a detailed analysis of quenching and design the metamaterial to have a huge Purcell factor in a broad bandwidth in spite of the losses in the metal. Our work should help motivate experiments in the development of single-photon sources for broadband emitters such as nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond.
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OCIS Codes
(160.4670) Materials : Optical materials
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
(270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics
(160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials
(160.4236) Materials : Nanomaterials
(250.5403) Optoelectronics : Plasmonics
ToC Category:
Materials
History
Original Manuscript: November 13, 2012
Revised Manuscript: December 27, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: January 15, 2013
Published: March 5, 2013
Citation
Ward D. Newman, Cristian L. Cortes, and Zubin Jacob, "Enhanced and directional single-photon emission in hyperbolic metamaterials," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 766-775 (2013)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-30-4-766
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