Chiral quantum optics in broken-symmetry and topological photonic crystal waveguides

NV Hauff, H Le Jeannic, P Lodahl, S Hughes… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
On-chip chiral quantum light-matter interfaces, which support directional interactions,
provide a promising platform for efficient spin-photon coupling, nonreciprocal photonic …

Density of photonic states in aperiodic structures

VA Chistyakov, MS Sidorenko, AD Sayanskiy… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Periodicity is usually assumed to be the necessary and sufficient condition for the formation
of band gaps, ie, energy bands with a suppressed density of states. Here, we check this …

Quantum theory of the emission spectrum from quantum dots coupled to structured photonic reservoirs and acoustic phonons

K Roy-Choudhury, S Hughes - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Electron-phonon coupling in semiconductor quantum dots plays a significant role in
determining the optical properties of excited excitons, especially the spectral nature of …

Realizing quantum optics in structured environments with giant atoms

X Wang, HB Zhu, T Liu, F Nori - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
To go beyond quantum optics in free-space setups, atom-light interfaces with structured
photonic environments are often employed to realize unconventional quantum …

Comb of high‐Q Resonances in a Compact Photonic Cavity

S Combrié, G Lehoucq, G Moille… - Laser & Photonics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The optical equivalent of the quantum mechanical oscillator is demonstrated in a photonic
crystal cavity, owing to the balance of the background dispersion and a bichromatic …

Self-consistent Maxwell-Bloch model of quantum-dot photonic-crystal-cavity lasers

W Cartar, J Mørk, S Hughes - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We present a powerful computational approach to simulate the threshold behavior of
photonic-crystal quantum-dot (QD) lasers. Using a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) …

Numerical modeling of the coupling efficiency of single quantum emitters in photonic-crystal waveguides

A Javadi, S Mahmoodian, I Söllner, P Lodahl - JOSA B, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Planar photonic nanostructures have recently attracted a great deal of attention for quantum
optics applications. In this paper, we carry out full 3D numerical simulations to fully account …

Lower bound for the spatial extent of localized modes in photonic-crystal waveguides with small random imperfections

R Faggiani, A Baron, X Zang, L Lalouat, SA Schulz… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Light localization due to random imperfections in periodic media is paramount in photonics
research. The group index is known to be a key parameter for localization near photonic …

Anderson Localization in Disordered LN Photonic Crystal Slab Cavities

JP Vasco, S Hughes - Acs Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
We present a detailed theoretical study of the effects of structural disorder on LN photonic
crystal slab cavities, ranging from short to long length scales (N= 3–35 cavity lengths), using …

Statistics of Anderson-localized modes in disordered photonic crystal slab waveguides

JP Vasco, S Hughes - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We present a fully three-dimensional Bloch mode expansion technique and a photon Green
function formalism to compute the quality factors, mode volumes, and Purcell enhancement …