Surface Plasmon Interference Lithography Assisted by a Fabry-Perot Cavity Composed of Subwavelength Metal Grating and Thin Metal Film

A surface plasmon interference lithography assisted by a Fabry-Perot （F-P） cavity composed of subwavelength metal gratings and a thin metal fihn is proposed to fabricate high-quality nanopatterns. The calculated results indicate that uniform straight interference fringes with high contrast and high electric-field intensity are formed in the resist under the F-P cavity. The analyses of spatial frequency spectra illuminate the physical mechanism of the formation for the interference fringes. The influence of the F-P cavity spacing is discussed in detail. Moreover, the error analyses reveal that all parameters except the metal grating period in this scheme can bear large tolerances for the device fabrication.

Asymmetrical Fabry-Perot cavity slot micro-ring resonator and its sensing characteristics

To achieve high quality factor and high-sensitivity refractive index sensor,a slot micro-ring resonator(MRR)based on asymmetric Fabry-Perot(FP)cavity was proposed.The structure consisted of a pair of elliptical holes to form an FP cavity and a microring resonator.The two different optical modes generated by the micro-ring resonator were destructively interfered to form a Fano line shape,which improved the system sensitivity while obtaining a higher quality factor and extinction ratio.The transmission principle of the structure was analyzed by the transfer matrix method.The transmission spectrum and mode field distribution of the proposed structure were simulated by the finite difference time domain(FDTD)method,and the key structural parameters affecting the Fano line shape in the device were optimized.The simulation results show that the quality factor of the device reached 22037.1,and the extinction ratio was 23.9 dB.By analyzing the refractive index sensing characteristics,the sensitivity of the structure was 354 nm·RIU−1,and the detection limit of the sensitivity was 2×10−4 RIU.Thus,the proposed compact asymmetric FP cavity slot micro-ring resonator has obvious advantages in sensing applications owing to its excellent performance.

Atomic Interference Method for Direct Measurement of the Wigner Function of a Cavity Field

We propose a scheme for the reconstruction of a cavity field state. In the scheme the cavity field is first displaced by a microwave source, and then is placed in front of one slit of the two-slit apparatus. Ground state atoms pass through the apparatus, hitting upon the screen far away from the two-slit apparatus. The atom-field interaction is dispersive. The contrast of interference fringes is directly related to the Wigner function for the field state. The scheme can be easily generalized to measure the Wigner function of an entangled state of two spatially separated single-mode cavities.

Fano interference and transparency in a waveguide-nanocavity hybrid system with an auxiliary cavity

We investigate theoretically single photon transport in one-dimensional waveguide coupled to a pair of cavities,which are denoted by the first cavity and the auxiliary cavity.Two cases with no atom and one atom embedded in the first cavity are discussed.The Fano dips in the transmission spectrum and locations of transparency window are calculated.When no atom is embedded in the first cavity,there exists a transparency window under the condition that the first cavity and the auxiliary cavity are not resonant.The locations of the transparency window and Fano line type depend strongly on the eigen frequency of the auxiliary cavity and the coupling strength between the auxiliary cavity and the waveguide.When one atom is embedded in the first cavity,we show that the transparency window exists even though the first cavity,the atom and the auxiliary cavity are resonant.The Fano line type is strongly dependent on the eigen frequency of the auxiliary cavity and the coupling strength.Our results have potential applications in design of quantum devices at the level of single photon,such as single photon switch and single photon routers.

Jnconventional Geometric Phase Gate with Superconducting Quantum Interference Device Qubits in Cavity QED

In the system with superconducting quantum interference devices （SQUID） in cavity, a scheme for constructing two-qubit quantum phase gate via a conventional geometric phase-shift is proposed by using a quantized cavity field and classical microwave pulses. In this scheme, the gate operation is realized in the subspace spanned by the two lower flux states of the SQUID system mud the population operator of the excited state has no effect on it. Thus the effect of decoherence caused from the levels of the SQUID system is possible to minimize. Under cavity decay, our strictly numerical simulation shows that it is also possible to realize the unconventional geometric phase gate. The experimental feasibility is discussed in detail.

Absorption interferometer of two-sided cavity

We propose a scheme in which an arbitrary incidence can be made perfectly reflected/transmitted with a phase modulator.We analyze the variation of intracavity field as well as output field with closed-loop phaseφ_(1) of the control fields and relative phaseφ_(2)of the probe beams.With two phases,medium absorption and light interference can be controlled so that photon escape from the cavity can be manipulated,thus an intensity switching based on phase modulation can be realized.And the condition for perfect transmitter or reflector is obtained.Then based on the transmission/reflection analysis,the total absorption of this system can be investigated.Therefore our scheme can be used as an absorption interferometer to explore the optical absorption in some complicated system.The state delay of the output light intensity,which is dependent onφ1 orφ2,can be applied in the realization of quantum phase gate and subtle wave filter.And based on this scheme,we implement the state transfer between perfect transmitter/reflector and non-perfect coherent photon absorber via relative-phase modulation.

An Ultraviolet Fiber Fabry-Perot Cavity for Florescence Collection of Trapped Ions

We demonstrate a fiber Fabry-Pérot cavity in the ultraviolet range, which covers the florescence wavelength for the 2P to 2S transition of Yb and is designed in the bad cavity limit for florescence collection. Benefiting from both the small cavity mode volume and the large atom dipole, a cavity with moderate finesse and high transmission still supports a good cooperativity, which is made and tested in experiment. Based on the measured experimental parameters, simulation performed on the cavity and ion shows a Purcell factor better than 2.5 and a single-mode fiber collection efficiency over 10%. This technology can support ultra-bright single photon sources based on trapped ions and can provide the possibility to link remote atoms as a quantum network.

Improved Directivity of an OAM Antenna by a Fabry-Perot Cavity: An Experimental Study

The circular phased antenna array is commonly used for generating waves bearing Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) in the radio frequency band, but it achieves a relatively low directivity. To overcome this drawback, we present here a method to improve the directivity of an OAM circular phased antenna array by embedding it inside a Fabry-Perot cavity. The Fabry-Perot cavity contains three main parts: a partially reflecting surface (PRS), an air cavity and a ground plane. Simulation data show that the directivity of this new OAM antenna achieves an improvement of 8.2 dB over the original array. A prototype is realized and characterized. The simulated and measured characteristics are in good agreement.

Effective transmittance of Fabry–Perot cavity under non-parallel beam incidence

The Fabry–Perot(FP) resonant cavity is widely used in laser and spectroscopic measurements due to its unique interference transfer function(ITF). In the ideal case of parallel incident light, the ITF of the FP resonant cavity can be expressed by the Airy function. However, in reality, it is difficult to achieve perfect parallelism with collimated beams. In this article, a theoretical model is established for non-parallel light incidence, which assumes that the non-parallel incident light is a cone-shaped beam, and the cone angle is used to quantify the non-parallelism of the beam. The transmittance function of the FP resonant cavity under non-parallel light incidence is derived. The accuracy of the model is experimentally verified. Based on this model, the effects of divergence angle, tilt angle and FP cavity parameters(reflectivity, cavity length)on the ITF are studied. The reasons for the decrease in peak value, broadening and asymmetry of the interference peak under non-parallel light incidence are explained. It is suggested that a fine balance between the interference peak and the collimation effect of the incident light should be considered in the design and application of FP resonant cavities, especially for tilted applications such as angle-scanned spectroscopy. The research results of this article have certain significance for the design and application of FP resonant cavities.

干涉条纹计数法光纤Fabry-Perot腔液位传感器

提出一种抗光源波动和外界干扰的条纹计数法光纤Fabry-Perot腔干涉型液位传感器.为适应这种条纹计数法对应变大挠度的要求,采用波纹管作应力弹性元件;对干涉条纹走向(或液位升降判向),分别提出实用的硬件设计方案和计算机软件处理办法;给出一种腔长温度补偿设计;实际制作了双光路光纤Fabry-Perot腔液位传感器,进行了实际气压模拟试验和实际水位测量试验,取得了良好结果.

基于石墨烯膜的光纤Fabry-Perot腔干涉特性分析

针对以新型材料石墨烯为膜片的光纤法珀压力传感器,应用圆薄膜大挠度弹性理论,利用有限元法分析了均布载荷下石墨烯膜的挠度形变;并基于Fabry-Perot干涉仪原理,建立了光纤Fabry-Perot腔压力传感的数学模型.根据石墨烯膜折射率特性,分析了层数、入射光角度等参数对石墨烯膜反射率的影响,获取了腔长损耗以及薄膜挠度形变导致腔长变化而引起的干涉光谱变化规律.仿真结果表明,增加薄膜层数可提高反射率、改善干涉性能;但随着载荷增加,其对挠度形变的影响表现为反向递减效应.8层石墨烯薄膜可获得0.715%的反射率,且当腔长为40μm时,直径25μm薄膜的理论压力灵敏度约为10 nm/k Pa.这为基于多层石墨烯的膜片式光纤压力传感器的设计提供了理论依据.

Dynamic properties of atomic collective decay in cavity quantum electrodynamics

We theoretically study the collective decay of two atoms trapped in a single mode cavity and we describe the evolution of the population of Dicke states. We show that the collective decay property is strongly dependent on the phase of atomic radiation and the speeding up of collective decay can only be observed in a bad cavity regime. For in-or out-phase case,this occurs due to the quantum interference enhancement, no matter which atom is excited initially. For π/2 phase, the speeding up of collective decay takes place if the first atom is excited at the beginning. However, it disappears due to the quantum interference cancellation if the second atom is excited. Compared with the in-phase and out-phase cases,we also show that the speeding up of collective decay can be significantly enhanced in strong coupling regime for π/2 phase, although one atom is decoupled to the cavity in this condition. The study presented here is helpful to understand the physical mechanism of collective decay in cavity quantum electrodynamics and it provides a useful method to control the collective decay phenomenon via quantum interference effect.

Quantum logic gates operation using SQUID qubits in bimodal cavity

We present a scheme to realize the basic two-qubit logic gates such as the quantum phase gate and SWAP gate using a detuned microwave cavity interacting with three-level superconducting-quantum-interference-device （SQUID） qubit（s）, by placing SQUID（s） in a two-mode microwave cavity and using adiabatic passage methods. In this scheme, the two logical states of the qubit are represented by the two lowest levels of the SQUID, and the cavity fields are treated as quantized. Compared with the previous method, the complex procedures of adjusting tile level spacing of the SQUID and applying the resonant microwave pulse to the SQUID to create transformation are not required. Based on superconducting device with relatively long decoherence time and simplified operation procedure, the gates operate at a high speed, which is important in view of decoherence.

基于Fabry-Perot光学干涉腔的真空计量装置研究进展

随着国际单位制向量子化转变,基于光学方法的真空计量技术成为该领域的研究热点,最具代表性的是基于Fabry-Perot光学干涉腔的真空计量方法。介绍了该方法的测量原理,并对以美国NIST、瑞典Umeå和日本AIST等为代表的计量机构的研究进展进行了简要概述。介绍了本课题组研制的1台基于Fabry-Perot光学腔的真空计量装置的结构组成,给出了干涉腔精细度、温度稳定性和激光频率稳定性测试结果,表明,基于Fabry-Perot光学干涉腔的真空计量方法具有高灵敏度和可靠性,可有效促进我国真空计量技术向量子化转变,具有良好的应用前景。

Optical feedback characteristics in a helium neon laser with a birefringent internal cavity

The output characteristics of optical feedback in a helium neon laser with a birefringent internal cavity are studied systematically in five different regions of the gain curve for the two orthogonally polarized modes. When the laser operates in the two end regions of the laser gain curve, one of the two orthogonally polarized modes will be a leading one in optical feedback. Strong mode competition can be observed. However, when the laser operates in the middle region of the laser gain curve, the two modes can oscillate equally with optical feedback. Besides the intensity of the two polarized lights, the total light intensity is also studied at the same time. M-shaped optical feedback curves are found. Particularly, when the average intensities of the two lights are comparable, the intensity modulation curve of the total light is doubled, which can be used to improve the resolution of an optical feedback system.

Enhancement of electromagnetically induced transparency cooling by an optical cavity

We theoretically investigate an enhanced electromagnetically induced transparency （EIT） cooling method by introduc- ing a high finesse cavity. We find that the quantum destructive interference that is induced by the EIT effect and the cavity coupling can eliminate all of the heating effects in the cooling process by choosing appropriate parameters. Compared with the EIT cooling scheme, a lower final temperature can be obtained under the same conditions in our scheme.

Low insertion loss silicon-based spatial light modulator with high reflective materials outside Fabry–Perot cavity

The extinction ratio and insertion loss of spatial light modulator are subject to the material problem, thus limiting its applications. One reflection-type silicon-based spatial light modulator with high reflective materials outside the Fabry-Perot cavity is demonstrated in this paper. The reflectivity values of the outside-cavity materials with different film layer numbers are simulated. The reflectivity values of 6-pair Ta2O5/SiO2 films at 1550 nm are experimentally verified to be as high as 99.9%. The surfaces of 6-pair Ta2O5/SiO2 films are smooth: their root-mean-square roughness values are as small as 0.53 nm. The insertion loss of the device at 1550 nm is only 1.2 dB. The high extinction ratio of the device at 1550 nm and 11 V is achieved to be 29.7 dB. The spatial light modulator has a high extinction ratio and low insertion loss for applications.

Mesa Diaphragm-Based Fabry-Perot Optical MEMS Pressure Sensor

An optical micro electron mechanical system （MEMS） pressure sensor with a mesa membrane is presented. The operating principle of the MEMS pressure sensor is expatiated by the Fabry-Perot （F-P） interference and the relation between deflection and pressure is analyzed. Both the mechanical model of the mesa structure diaphragm and the signal averaging effect is validated by simulation, which declares that the mesa structure diaphragm is superior to the planar one on the parallelism and can reduce the signal averaging effect. Experimental results demonstrate that the mesa structure sensor has a reasonable linearity and sensitivity.

基于双金属和FP干涉结构的光纤温度传感器

为了提高现有光纤温度传感器的灵敏度和测温范围,提出了一种基于双金属和法布里—珀罗(FP)干涉结构的传光型光纤温度传感器。以双金属片作为感温元件,利用部分反射镜和双金属片作为上、下表面,构成FP腔,采用调频激光干涉原理测量感温元件受热产生的FP腔腔长变化量,实现对温度的传感。实验结果表明:制成的光纤温度传感器的腔长变化量与温度呈较好的线性关系,线性度为99.96%,温度测量灵敏度达到了3885nm/℃,重复性高。

Fabry-Perot interference and piezo-phototronic effect enhanced flexible MoS_(2) photodetector

Flexible photodetectors(PDs)are indispensable components for next-generation wearable electronics.Recently,two-dimensional(2D)materials have been implemented as functional flexible optoelectronic devices due to their characteristics of atomically thin layers,excellent flexibility,and strain sensitivity.In this work,we developed a flexible photodetector based on MoS_(2)/NiO heterojunction,and Fabry-Perot(F-P)and piezo-phototronic effect have been employed to enhance the responsivity(R)and external quantum efficiency(EQE)of the devices.The F-P effect is utilized to improve the optical absorption of the MoS_(2),resulting in an enhancement in the photoluminescence(PL)of monolayer MoS_(2) and the EQE of the photodetector by 30 and 130 times,respectively.The flexible photodetector exhibits an ultrahigh detectivity(D*)of 2.6×10^(14) Jones,which is the highest value ever reported for flexible MoS_(2) PDs.The piezo-potential of monolayer MoS_(2) decreases the valence band offset at the interface of MoS_(2)/NiO,which increases the transfer efficiency of the photon-generated carriers significantly.Under 1.17%tensile strain,the R of the flexible photodetector can be enhanced by 271%.This research may provide a universal strategy for the design and performance optimization of 2D materials heterostructures for flexible optoelectronics.