TY - JOUR
T1 - Tailoring optical nonlinearities via the Purcell effect
AU - Bermel, Peter
AU - Rodriguez, Alejandro
AU - Joannopoulos, John D.
AU - Soljačić, Marin
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/8/3
Y1 - 2007/8/3
N2 - We predict that the effective nonlinear optical susceptibility can be tailored using the Purcell effect. While this is a general physical principle that applies to a wide variety of nonlinearities, we specifically investigate the Kerr nonlinearity. We show theoretically that using the Purcell effect for frequencies close to an atomic resonance can substantially influence the resultant Kerr nonlinearity for light of all (even highly detuned) frequencies. For example, in realistic physical systems, enhancement of the Kerr coefficient by one to two orders of magnitude could be achieved.
AB - We predict that the effective nonlinear optical susceptibility can be tailored using the Purcell effect. While this is a general physical principle that applies to a wide variety of nonlinearities, we specifically investigate the Kerr nonlinearity. We show theoretically that using the Purcell effect for frequencies close to an atomic resonance can substantially influence the resultant Kerr nonlinearity for light of all (even highly detuned) frequencies. For example, in realistic physical systems, enhancement of the Kerr coefficient by one to two orders of magnitude could be achieved.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.053601
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.053601
M3 - Article
C2 - 17930750
AN - SCOPUS:34547672714
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 99
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 5
M1 - 053601
ER -