Dynamic modulation of photonic crystal nanocavities using gigahertz acoustic phonons
arXiv:1205.1346 · doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.208
Abstract
Photonic crystal membranes (PCM) provide a versatile planar platform for on-chip implementations of photonic quantum circuits. One prominent quantum element is a coupled system consisting of a nanocavity and a single quantum dot (QD) which forms a fundamental building block for elaborate quantum information networks and a cavity quantum electrodynamic (cQED) system controlled by single photons. So far no fast tuning mechanism is available to achieve control within the system coherence time. Here we demonstrate dynamic tuning by monochromatic coherent acoustic phonons formed by a surface acoustic wave (SAW) with frequencies exceeding 1.7 gigahertz, one order of magnitude faster than alternative approaches. We resolve a periodic modulation of the optical mode exceeding eight times its linewidth, preserving both the spatial mode profile and a high quality factor. Since PCMs confine photonic and phononic excitations, coupling optical to acoustic frequencies, our technique opens ways towards coherent acoustic control of optomechanical crystals.
arXiv comment11 pages 4 figures
References in corpus (15)
- Review article: Linear optical quantum computing
- Photonic quantum technologies
- Quantum state transfer and entanglement distribution among distant nodes in a quantum network
- Quantum nature of a strongly-coupled single quantum dot-cavity system
- Optomechanical Crystals
- Coherent generation of nonclassical light on a chip via photon-induced tunneling and blockade
- Laser oscillation in a strongly coupled single quantum dot-nanocavity system
- Optomechanical coupling in a two-dimensional photonic crystal defect cavity
- Resolved Sideband Emission of InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots Strained by Surface Acoustic Waves
- Manipulation of the Spontaneous Emission Dynamics of Quantum Dots in 2D Photonic Crystals
- Mesoscopic spin confinement during acoustically induced transport
- Fast Electrical Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Nano-resonator
- Modeling Dispersive Coupling and Losses of Localized Optical and Mechanical Modes in Optomechanical Crystals
- Enhanced sequential carrier capture into individual quantum dots and quantum posts controlled by surface acoustic waves
- Direct observation of dynamic surface acoustic wave controlled carrier injection into single quantum posts using phase-resolved optical spectroscopy
Cited by in corpus (49)
- Coherent coupling between radio frequency, optical, and acoustic waves in piezo-optomechanical circuits
- Tailoring Structure-borne Sound Through Bandgap Engineering in Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials: A Comprehensive Review
- Sub-optical wavelength acoustic wave modulation of integrated photonic resonators at microwave frequencies
- Tunable transport with broken space-time symmetries
- Fourier synthesis of radio frequency nanomechanical pulses with different shapes
- Ultrafast nonlocal control of spontaneous emission
- Dynamic Acoustic Control of Individual Optically Active Quantum Dot-like Emission Centers in Heterostructure Nanowires
- Dynamic acousto-mechanical control of a strongly coupled photonic molecule
- Interaction of surface acoustic waves with electronic excitations in graphene
- Piezoelectric transduction of a wavelength-scale mechanical waveguide
- Acousto-optic modulation of a photonic crystal nanocavity with Lamb waves in microwave K band
- Nonlinear quantum dot optomechanics
- Surface acoustic wave regulated single photon emission from a coupled quantum dot-nanocavity system
- Symmetry of the Magnetoelastic Interaction of Rayleigh and Shear Horizontal Magnetoacoustic Waves in Nickel Thin Films on LiTaO
- Phonon-mediated population inversion in a semiconductor quantum-dot cavity system
- Acoustically regulated carrier injection into a single optically active quantum dot
- Entanglement creation in a quantum dot-nanocavity system
- Photonic switching devices based on semiconductor nanostructures
- Multiharmonic frequency-chirped transducers for surface-acoustic-wave optomechanics
- On-chip generation and dynamic piezo-optomechanical rotation of single photons
- Surface Acoustic wave modulation of a coherently driven quantum dot in a pillar microcavity
- Independent dynamic acousto-mechanical and electrostatic control of individual quantum dots in a LiNbO-GaAs hybrid
- Multi-harmonic Quantum Dot Optomechanics in fused LiNbO-(Al)GaAs hybrids
- Quantum dot optomechanics in suspended nanophononic strings
- Quantum acousto-optic control of light-matter interactions in nanophotonic networks
- Optomechanical photon shuttling between photonic cavities
- High-acoustic-index-contrast phononic circuits: numerical modeling
- Real-space characterization of cavity-coupled waveguide systems in hypersonic phononic crystals
- Dynamical symmetry approach and topological field theory for path integrals of quantum spin systems
- Anomalous quantum Hall effect of light in Bloch-wave modulated photonic crystals
- Optical waveguide devices modulated by surface acoustic waves
- Radio frequency occupancy state control of a single nanowire quantum dot
- Control of spontaneous emission of a single quantum emitter through a time-modulated photonic-band-gap environment
- Surface acoustic wave mediated carrier injection into individual quantum post nano emitters
- Surface acoustic wave controlled charge dynamics in a thin InGaAs quantum well
- Quantum dynamics of optical phonons generated by optical excitation of a quantum dot
- Acoustically regulated optical emission dynamics from quantum dot-like emission centers in GaN/InGaN nanowire heterostructures
- Optical interface states protected by synthetic Weyl points
- Generation of ultrashort (~10ps) spontaneous emission pulses by quantum dots in a switched optical microcavity
- Heterogeneous integration of superconducting thin films and epitaxial semiconductor heterostructures with Lithium Niobate
- Optical wave evolution due to interaction with elastic wave in a phoxonic crystal slab waveguide
- Far-field emission profiles from L3 photonic crystal cavity modes
- Gigahertz modulation of a fully dielectric nonlocal metasurface
- Mechanical mode engineering with orthotropic metamaterial membranes
- Optically-Controlled Nano-Transducers Based on Cleaved Superlattices for Monitoring Gigahertz Surface Acoustic Vibrations
- Effect of periodic potential on exciton states in semiconductor carbon nanotubes
- Piezoelectric optomechanical approaches for efficient quantum microwave-to-optical signal transduction: the need for co-design
- Topical review on acousto-optical Floquet engineering of single-photon emitters
- Electro-mechanically induced GHz rate optical frequency modulation in silicon