Omnidirectional mirror based on Bragg stacks with a periodic gain-loss modulation

Manzanares-Martinez, J.; Ham-Rodriguez, C. I.; Moctezuma-Enriquez, D.; Manzanares-Martinez, Betsabe

doi:10.1063/1.4864064

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“…Dispersion-compensated metamaterials can also lead to new devices [ 27 ]. Loss-compensated metamaterials constitute another class of structures for which averaging over a unit cell can produce something truly new [ 4 , 28 , 29 ]: loss in one constituent can be compensated by linear gain in another, so as to produce metamaterials with lower or even vanishing effective loss. Partial loss compensation has been realized both in plasmonic waveguides [ 30 , 31 ] and in metamaterials [ 32 ].…”

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Quantum Optical Effective-Medium Theory for Layered Metamaterials at Any Angle of Incidence

Amooghorban

Wubs

2023

Nanomaterials

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The quantum optics of metamaterials starts with the question of whether the same effective-medium theories apply as in classical optics. In general, the answer is negative. For active plasmonics but also for some passive metamaterials, we show that an additional effective-medium parameter is indispensable besides the effective index, namely, the effective noise-photon distribution. Only with the extra parameter can one predict how well the quantumness of states of light is preserved in the metamaterial. The fact that the effective index alone is not always sufficient and that one additional effective parameter suffices in the quantum optics of metamaterials is both of fundamental and practical interest. Here, from a Lagrangian description of the quantum electrodynamics of media with both linear gain and loss, we compute the effective noise-photon distribution for quantum light propagation in arbitrary directions in layered metamaterials, thereby detailing and generalizing our previous work. The effective index with its direction and polarization dependence is the same as in classical effective-medium theories. As our main result, we derive both for passive and for active media how the value of the effective noise-photon distribution too depends on the polarization and propagation directions of the light. Interestingly, for s-polarized light incident on passive metamaterials, the noise-photon distribution reduces to a thermal distribution, but for p-polarized light it does not. We illustrate the robustness of our quantum optical effective-medium theory by accurate predictions both for power spectra and for balanced homodyne detection of output quantum states of the metamaterial.

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Quantum Optical Effective-Medium Theory for Layered Metamaterials at Any Angle of Incidence

Amooghorban

Wubs

2023

Nanomaterials

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“…Here, the positive-frequency part of the electric field operator E N +1(+) can now be determined with the help of Eq. (27). As usual the negative-frequency part of the field is obtained by taking the Hermitian conjugate of Eq.…”

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“…Dispersion-compensated metamaterials can also lead to new devices [25]. Losscompensated metamaterials constitute another class of structures for which averaging over a unit cell can produce something truly new [4,26,27]: loss in one constituent can be compensated by linear gain in another, so as to produce metamaterials with lower or even vanishing effective loss. Partial loss compensation has been realized both in plasmonic waveguides [28,29] and in metamaterials [30].…”

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Quantum optical effective-medium theory for layered metamaterials

Amooghorban,

Wubs

2016

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The quantum optics of metamaterials starts with the question whether the same effective-medium theories apply as in classical optics. In general the answer is negative. For active plasmonics but also for some passive metamaterials, we show that an additional effective-medium parameter is indispensable besides the effective index, namely the effective noise-photon distribution. Only with the extra parameter can one predict how well the quantumness of states of light is preserved in the metamaterial. The fact that the effective index alone is not always sufficient and that one additional effective parameter suffices in the quantum optics of metamaterials is both of fundamental and practical interest. Here from a Lagrangian description of the quantum electrodynamics of media with both linear gain and loss, we compute the effective noise-photon distribution for quantum light propagation in arbitrary directions in layered metamaterials, thereby detailing and generalizing our recent work [ E. Amooghorban et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 153602 (2013)]. The effective index with its direction and polarization dependence is the same as in classical effective-medium theories. As our main result we derive both for passive and for active media how the value of the effective noise-photon distribution too depends on the polarization and propagation directions of the light. Interestingly, for TE-polarized light incident on passive metamaterials, the noise-photon distribution reduces to a thermal distribution, but for TM-polarized light it does not. We illustrate the robustness of our quantum optical effective-medium theory by accurate predictions both for power spectra and for balanced homodyne detection of output quantum states of the metamaterial.

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A wide band porous silicon omnidirectional mirror for the near infrared range

Chavez-Castillo

Pérez-Huerta

Madrigal-Melchor

et al. 2020

Journal of Applied Physics

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We report the design, fabrication, and characterization of a porous silicon-based omnidirectional mirror for the near infrared range. The structure consists of 300 porous silicon chirped dielectric layers, optimized to have omnidirectional reflectivity response from 1000 to 2000 nm wavelength range. Measurements of reflectivity spectra are presented for non-polarized light at several incident angles (range 8°–65°) with a reflectivity >95% covering a 1μm band-width. Transfer matrix method calculations were carried out to show the complete angular range for both TM and TE polarizations including a simple model to illustrate the interface scattering effects.

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Omnidirectional mirror based on Bragg stacks with a periodic gain-loss modulation

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Quantum Optical Effective-Medium Theory for Layered Metamaterials at Any Angle of Incidence

Quantum Optical Effective-Medium Theory for Layered Metamaterials at Any Angle of Incidence

Quantum optical effective-medium theory for layered metamaterials

A wide band porous silicon omnidirectional mirror for the near infrared range

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