Interference-induced directional emission from an unpolarized two-level emitter into a circulating cavity

Lucas Ostrowski, Scott Parkins, Morito Shirane, Mark Sadgrove

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Abstract

Chiral coupling between quantum emitters and evanescent fields allows directional emission into nanophotonic devices and is now considered to be a vital ingredient for the realization of quantum networks. However, such coupling requires a well-defined circular dipole moment for the emitter - something difficult to achieve for solid-state emitters at room temperature due to thermal population of available spin states. Here, we demonstrate that a two-level emitter with a randomly polarized dipole moment can be made to emit directionally into a circulating cavity if a separate emitter is chirally coupled to the same cavity, for the case when both emitter-cavity couplings are strong but in the bad-cavity regime. Our analysis of this system first considers a transient scenario, which highlights the physical mechanism giving rise to the directional emission of the two-level emitter into the cavity. An alternative setup involving a weak laser field continuously driving the system is also considered, where the directionality (our proposed figure of merit for this scheme) is shown to be significantly more robust against noise processes. The results presented here take the form of approximate analytical expressions backed by complete numerical simulations of the system.

Original languageEnglish
Article number063719
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume105
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2022

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