Publication
Title
Engineering Gaussian states of light from a planar microcavity
Author
Abstract
Quantum fluids of light in a nonlinear planar microcavity can exhibit antibunched photon statistics at short distances due to repulsive polariton interactions. We show that, despite the weakness of the nonlinearity, the antibunching signal can be amplified orders of magnitude with an appropriate free-space optics scheme to select and interfere output modes. Our results are understood from the unconventional photon blockade perspective by analyzing the approximate Gaussian output state of the microcavity. In a second part, we illustrate how the temporal and spatial profile of the density-density correlation function of a fluid of light can be reconstructed with free-space optics. Also here the nontrivial (anti)bunching signal can be amplified significantly by shaping the light emitted by the microcavity.
Language
English
Source (journal)
SciPost Physics. - [S.l.]
Publication
[S.l.] : SciPost , 2018
ISSN
2542-4653
DOI
10.21468/SCIPOSTPHYS.5.1.013
Volume/pages
5 :1 (2018) , 24 p.
Article Reference
013
ISI
000441452900013
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Research group
Project info
AQUS: Analog quantum simulators for many-body dynamics
POLTDES: Interacting polaritons in two-dimensional electron systems
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Web of Science
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Creation 07.09.2018
Last edited 09.10.2023
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