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Xue-Mei Su

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Plasma absorption levelling by phase coherence in meta-surface stacked structure

In this paper, we propose a MIM (metallic metasurface-insulator-metal) stacked structure to realize perfect absorption in mid- and far- infrared bandwidth. A large number of metallic composite metallic units placed on a uniform layer of insulator Ge which is deposited on a uniform metallic Ti surface. Each of units consists of four right-angled triangular cubes in middle of four sides of a square. Three resonant absorption peaks can be discrete or levelling dependent to thickness of cubes. Once metallic cubes are thinner than its skin depth, an effective ultra-broadband absorber is realizable with average absorption over 90% percent ranging from 8-14μm. We build a four-level cavity-dipole interacting model to explain phenomena of plasma absorption levelling. This is created by strong phase coherence from meta-surface since three hybrid modes are coupled by common cavity photons in arrays of micro-cavities between top and below metallic layers. The structure is polarization-selective to infrared light. It has great potential in infrared detection and imaging.

physics.optics

Pure optomechanical dark mode

Optomechanical dark mode plays a central role in effective mechanically-mediated conversion of two different optical fields. In this paper, two approaches are proposed to generate pure optomechanical dark mode, in which the optomechanical bright mode is absolutely eliminated even with small cooperativity and different losses of the two optical cavities. Only the optomechanical dark mode is left to facilitate quantum state transfer. This result provides a new perspective to utilize the dark state or dark mode for quantum information processing.

quant-ph

Classicality and amplification in postselected weak measurement

Nearly thirty years ago the possibility of anomalous weak amplfication (AWA) was revealed by Aharonov, Albert and Vaidman [1]. Recently two papers presents two AWA schemes which are beyond the traditional proposal given by them [14, 15]. At the first glance the two papers seems very different. Ref. [14] discusses the thermal light cross-Kerr effect and finds only postselection can give the amplification effect without interference of the postselected meter states, and Ref. [15] shows that only weak interaction itself can give the amplification effect without postselection. Here the relationships between the two papers are pointed out and a generalized framework for AWA via postselecting a pair of orthogonal final states is shown.

quant-ph

A classical postselected weak amplification scheme via thermal light cross-Kerr effect

In common sense, postselected weak amplification must be related to destructive interference effect of the meter system, and a single photon exerts no effect on thermal field via cross-phasemodulation (XPM) interaction. In this Letter we present, for the first time, a thermal light cross-Kerr effect. Through analysis, we reveal two unexpected results: i) postselection and weak amplification can be explained at a classical level without destructive interference, and ii) weak amplification and weak value are not one thing. After postselection a new mixed light can be generated which is nonclassical. This scheme can be realized via electromagnetically-induced transparency.

quant-ph