Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Frequency-Dependent Reflectors

Ondřej Černotík, Aurélien Dantan, and Claudiu Genes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 243601 – Published 21 June 2019
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Abstract

We present a general framework for cavity quantum electrodynamics with strongly frequency-dependent mirrors. The method is applicable to a variety of reflectors exhibiting sharp internal resonances as can be realized, for example, with photonic-crystal mirrors or with two-dimensional atomic arrays around subradiant points. Our approach is based on a modification of the standard input-output formalism to explicitly include the dynamics of the mirror’s internal resonance. We show how to directly extract the interaction parameters from the comparison with classical transfer matrix theory and how to treat the non-Markovian dynamics of the cavity field mode introduced by the mirror’s internal resonance. As an application within optomechanics, we illustrate how a non-Markovian Fano-resonance cavity with a flexible photonic-crystal mirror can provide both sideband resolution as well as strong heating suppression in optomechanical cooling. This approach, amenable to a wide range of systems, opens up possibilities for using hybrid frequency-dependent reflectors in cavity quantum electrodynamics for engineering novel forms of light-matter interactions.

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  • Received 27 February 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.243601

© 2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

Ondřej Černotík1,*, Aurélien Dantan2, and Claudiu Genes1

  • 1Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstraße 2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

  • *Present address: Department of Optics, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 1192/12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czechia. ondrej.cernotik@upol.cz

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Vol. 122, Iss. 24 — 21 June 2019

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