Tunable quantum switch realized with a single Λ-level atom coupled to the microtoroidal cavity

We propose a realization of the quantum switch for coherent light fields for the fiber-coupled microdisk cavities. We demonstrate by combining numerical and analytical methods that both in strong coupling and bad cavity limits it is possible to change a system's behavior from being fully transp...

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Main Authors: Aghamalyan, Davit, You, Jia-Bin, Chu, Hong-Son, Png, Ching Eng, Krivitsky, Leonid, Kwek, Leong Chuan
Other Authors: National Institute of Education
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141940
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:We propose a realization of the quantum switch for coherent light fields for the fiber-coupled microdisk cavities. We demonstrate by combining numerical and analytical methods that both in strong coupling and bad cavity limits it is possible to change a system's behavior from being fully transparent to being fully reflective by varying the amplitude of the external control field. We remark that tuning the amplitude of the control field instead of cavity-atom coupling strength, which was suggested by S. Parkins et al., [Phys. Rev. A 90, 053822 (2014)] for two-level atoms and works only in the strong coupling limit, brings more control and tunability over the transmitted and reflected intensities. We also demonstrate the possibility of controlling the statistics of the input coherent field with the control field which opens the venue for obtaining quantum states of light.