Coherent perfect absorption of single photons in a fiber network

• Main Authors: Vetlugin, Anton N., Guo, Ruixiang, Xomalis, Angelos, Yanikgonul, Salih, Adamo, Giorgio, Soci, Cesare, Zheludev, Nikolay I.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Coherent Perfect Absorption; Quantum Fibre Network; Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81136; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50396
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Large distance implementation of quantum communication technologies requires coherent control of single photons in optical fibre networks. Here we demonstrate the phenomenon of coherent perfect absorption of single photons in a fully-fiberized ultrathin plasmonic metamaterial fabricated at the end f...