Active photonic and plasmonic components based on parity-time symmetry

Project Member(s): Solntsev, A.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2017

Summary: Active photonic and plasmonic components based on parity-time symmetry. This project intends to uncover and demonstrate experimentally the role of symmetry in space and time in nonlinear photonics and plasmonics, where light can change the optical properties of the medium. Based on these results, the project aims to build an integrated optical signal amplifier and an integrated generator of entangled photons with previously inaccessible ultra-fast broad-range control of operating regimes. These systems would have applications in future optical communication networks, ensuring fast, secure and energy efficient data transmission.

Publications:

Marino, G, Solntsev, AS, Xu, L, Gili, VF, Carletti, L, Poddubny, AN, Rahmani, M, Smirnova, DA, Chen, H, Lemaître, A, Zhang, G, Zayats, AV, Angelis, CD, Leo, G, Sukhorukov, AA & Neshev, DN 2019, 'Spontaneous photon-pair generation at the nanoscale', Optica, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 1416-1422.
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FOR Codes: Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy, Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, Quantum Optics, Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences, Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications, Quantum optics and quantum optomechanics

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