Scanning a photonic crystal slab nanocavity by condensation of xenon

Abstract

Allowing xenon or nitrogen gas to condense onto a photonic crystal slab nanocavity maintained at 10-20 K results in shifts of the nanocavity mode wavelength by as much as 5 nm ͑Х4 meV͒. This occurs in spite of the fact that the mode defect is achieved by omitting three holes to form the spacer. This technique should be useful in changing the detuning between a single quantum dot transition and the nanocavity mode for cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments, such as mapping out a strong coupling anticrossing curve. Compared with temperature scanning, it has a much larger scan range and avoids phonon broadening. © 2005 American Institute of Physics. ͓DOI: 10.1063/1.2076435͔Radiative coupling between a single quantum dot ͑SQD͒ and a small volume cavity alters the emission properties of the coupled system. In the weak coupling regime, the spontaneous emission has a single emission frequency, and it irreversibly escapes from the cavity. The SQD radiative emission rate is enhanced by the Purcell factor F P =3 3 Q / ͑4 2 V͒ compared with the cavityless radiative emission rate ␥ 0 ; Q and V are the quality factor and volume of the cavity, respectively, and = 0 / n is the wavelength of the light in the material with refractive index n. The several single-photon-on-demand sources that have been reported operate in the weak coupling regime. [1][2][3][4][5] In the strong coupling regime, the Rabi frequency rate of exchange of the excitation between the SQD and the cavity, g = E vac / ប, exceeds both the photon escape rate and SQD dephasing rate ␥. In the formula for g, it is assumed that the SQD has dipole moment and is in the peak of the root-mean-square intracavity field E vac satisfying 0 n 2 ͉E vac ͉ 2 V = h /2; 0 is the permittivity of vacuum, and is the frequency of the cavity mode. The strong coupling makes the spontaneous emission reversible, i.e., a photon emitted by the excited SQD has a higher probability of being reabsorbed than escaping the cavity. For zero detuning between the SQD and the cavity mode, the coupled-system spontaneous emission can occur at either of two frequencies separated by 2g. If the coupled transition of the SQD is between excited state ͉e͘ and ground state ͉g͘ and the quantized field state with n photons in the cavity mode is denoted by ͉n͘, then the two coupled-system eigenstates can be written as ͉e0͘ ± ͉g1͘. Since neither eigenstate can be written as a product of a quantum dot ͑QD͒ state and a cavity state, each has entanglement-a basic ingredient of quantum information science. Recently, there have been three experimental claims of observing this vacuum Rabi splitting using for the nanocavity a micropillar, 6 a photonic crystal slab, 7 and a microdisk. 8 The photonic crystal slab nanocavity has the smallest mode volume, ͑0.3-1͒ 3 . Therefore, it will have the largest vacuum Rabi splitting 2g for a given SQD dipole moment, since E vac ϰ 1/ ͱ V.For many years, of a photonic crystal nanocavity has been larger than ␥; therefore, since =2 / Q, it has been g / ϰ Q / ͱ V that needed to be ...

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