Directional coupling of emitters into waveguides: A symmetry perspective
arXiv:1910.11228 · doi:10.1002/lpor.202000516
Abstract
Recent experiments demonstrated strongly directional coupling of light into waveguide modes. We identify here the mechanisms behind this effect. We consider emitters near a waveguide, either centered on the median plane of the waveguide, or displaced from such plane. We show that, independently of the displacement, the directionality is mostly due to a mirror symmetry breaking caused by the axial character of the angular momentum of the emitted light. The sign of the angular momentum along an axis transverse to the waveguide determines the preferential coupling direction. The degree of directionality grows exponentially as the magnitude of such transverse angular momentum increases linearly. We trace this exponential dependence back to a property of the evanescent angular spectrum of the emissions. A binary and less pronounced directional coupling effect due to the chiral character of the handedness of the emission is possible when the displacement of the emitter breaks another of the mirror symmetries of the waveguide. We find a selection rule that allows or prevents the coupling of centered electric(magnetic) multipolar emissions onto the waveguide modes. We also show that the selection of a different angular momentum axis made in some experiments causes significant differences in the way in which directionality depends on angular momentum. We then use these differences to propose an experiment featuring a transverse magnetic bias that allows to aggregate the directional emissions from quantum dots on top of waveguides. Our symmetry-based results apply to any emitted multipolar order, clarify the spin-momentum locking concept, and generalize it to an exponentially-strong locking between the transverse angular momentumand the preferential coupling direction.
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