Optical Bloch oscillation and resonant Zener tunneling in one-dimensional quasi-period structures containing single negative materials

We studied the optical Bloch oscillation and resonant Zener tunneling in macroscopic quasi-period structures of alternatively stratified single negative and dielectric slabs. By a decrease in the thicknesses of the dielectric slabs, the electronic potential of crystals subjected to external dc electric fields is mimicked and the optical Wannier-Stark ladder (WSL) is realized. Both scattering states and the time-resolved transmission of a short pulse are provided to show the existence of the optical analogue of electronic Bloch oscillation. At a critical gradient, the resonant photon Zener tunneling is demonstrated both from the amplitude and the time delay in the transmitted signal of a short pulse.     

Tunable hybridization at midzone and anomalous Bloch-Zener oscillations in optical waveguide ladders

We have studied the optical oscillation and tunneling of light waves in optical waveguide ladders (OWLs) formed by two coupled planar optical waveguide arrays. For the band structure, a midzone gap is formed owing to band hybridization, and its wavenumber position can be tuned throughout the whole Brillouin zone, which is different from the Bragg gap. By imposing a gradient in the propagation constant in each array, Bloch-Zener oscillation (BZO) is realized with Zener tunneling between the bands occurring at the midzone, which is contrary to the common BZO with tunneling at the center or edge of the Brillouin zone. The occurrence of BZO is demonstrated by using the field-evolution analysis. The tunable hybridization at the midzone enhances the tunability of BZO in the OWLs. This Letter may offer new insights into the coherent phenomena in optical lattices.     

Resonant tunneling in frustrated total internal reflection

Anomalous light transmission and resonant tunneling in frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) are theoretically predicted to occur at periodically curved interfaces. For a low-contrast index and for grazing incidence, it is shown that FTIR resonant tunneling provides an optical realization of field-induced barrier transparency in quantum tunneling.     

Lateral shift and tunneling of optical beam reflected from gradient-induced inhomogeneity

Two effects have been analytically and numerically studied: Goos-Hänchen shift, which is acquired by an optical beam reflected from a gradient inhomogeneity, and tunneling of radiation through a narrow induced inhomogeneity. A possibility of increasing the lateral beam shift in comparison with total internal reflection from a homogeneous medium is revealed. The dependence of the tunneling coefficient on the inhomogeneity parameters is determined and the critical inhomogeneity width at which the tunneling effect arises is found.     

Transmission enhancement by conversion of evanescent waves into propagating waves

The convolution between spatial modes of two different parts of an optical system can convert evanescent waves into propagating waves. This principle is applied to different optical systems for analyzing various effects in transmission enhancements experiments. We discuss here the differences between the present principle which is related to broadening of resonances and the near-field optical microscopy based on a tunneling effect by a tip detector. The present analysis is applied in particular to two systems: a) transmission enhancement in one slit by coupling the transmitted radiation with transversal Fabry–Pérot electromagnetic (EM) modes, and b) transmission enhancement by coupling between a metallic film with arrays of holes and surface plasmons (SP). The present approach gives more information on transmission enhancement phenomena than that obtained by conventional treatments and can also solve certain disagreements between different theories. The differences between the present process of converting evanescent waves into propagating waves, and that related to the new development of getting a super-resolution by an hyperlens are discussed. PACS 41.20.Jb; 73.20.Mf; 42.79.Dj     

Temperature-controllable spin-polarized current and spin polarization in a Rashba three-terminal double-quantum-dot device

We propose a Rashba three-terminal double-quantum-dot device to generate a spin-polarized current and manipulate the electron spin in each quantum dot by utilizing the temperature gradient instead of the electric bias voltage. This device possesses a nonresonant tunneling channel and two resonant tunneling channels. The Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function techniques are employed to determinate the spin-polarized current flowing from the electrodes and the spin accumulation in each quantum dot. We find that their signs and magnitudes are well controllable by the gate voltage or the temperature gradient. This result is attributed to the change in the slope of the transmission probability at the Fermi levels in the low-temperature region. Importantly, an obviously pure spin current can be injected into or extracted from one of the three electrodes by properly choosing the temperature gradient and the gate voltages. Therefore, the device can be used as an ideal thermal generator to produce a pure spin current and manipulate the electron spin in the quantum dot.     

Plasmonic Brewster angle: broadband extraordinary transmission through optical gratings

Extraordinary optical transmission through metallic gratings is a well established effect based on the collective resonance of corrugated screens. Being based on plasmonic resonances, its bandwidth is inherently narrow, in particular, for thick screens and narrow apertures. We introduce here a different mechanism to achieve total transmission through an otherwise opaque screen, based on an ultrabroadband tunneling that can span from dc to the visible range at a given incidence angle. This phenomenon effectively represents the equivalent of Brewster transmission for plasmonic and opaque screens.     

Voltage-controlled transmission through a dielectric slab doped with quantum dot molecules

Transmission and reflection of an electromagnetic pulse through a dielectric slab doped with the quantum dot molecules are investigated. It is shown that the transmission and reflection coefficients depend on the inter-dot tunneling effect and can be simply controlled by applying a gate voltage without any changing in the refractive index or thickness of the slab. Such simple controlling prepares an active beam splitter which can be used in all optical switching, optical limiting, and other optical systems.     

Tunneling‐induced transparency in a chaotic microcavity

A new form of induced transparency enabled by dynamical tunneling coupling of continuous chaos and discrete regular modes in a slightly deformed optical microcavity is demonstrated experimentally. An optical beam is focused on the cavity boundary and tuned on resonance with a high‐Q mode, which leads to destructive interference for the excitation of chaotic field and induces a transparency in the transmission. The experimental results are in excellent agreement with a model based on quantum scattering theory. This tunneling‐induced transparency is accompanied by extremely steep normal dispersion, and holds great potential in slow light and enhanced nonlinear interactions.     

两体和三体相互作用下的非线性Landau-Zener隧穿的圈结构研究

在加速光晶格中玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体（BEC）,当同时考虑两体和三体相互作用时,其能级结构、隧穿率出现了独特的特性.在一维加速光晶格中的BEC,当两体和三体相互作用参数满足一定条件时,非线性两能级体系的能级结构中出现了圈结构,研究得出了圈的宽度随两体和三体相互作用参数变化的关系,并由此分析圈结构的出现及其大小对BEC隧穿率的影响.     

Single-photon tunneling via localized surface plasmons

Strong evidence of a single-photon tunneling effect, a direct analog of single-electron tunneling, has been obtained in the measurements of light tunneling through individual subwavelength pinholes in a gold film covered with a layer of polydiacetylene. The transmission of some pinholes reached saturation because of the optical nonlinearity of polydiacetylene at a very low light intensity of a few thousand photons per second. This result is explained theoretically in terms of a "photon blockade," similar to the Coulomb blockade phenomenon observed in single-electron tunneling experiments. Single-photon tunneling may find applications in the fields of quantum communication and information processing.     

两体和三体相互作用下的非线性Landau-Zener隧穿的圈结构研究

在加速光晶格中玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体（BEC）,当同时考虑两体和三体相互作用时,其能级结构、隧穿率出现了独特的特性.在一维加速光晶格中的BEC,当两体和三体相互作用参数满足一定条件时,非线性两能级体系的能级结构中出现了圈结构,研究得出了圈的宽度随两体和三体相互作用参数变化的关系,并由此分析圈结构的出现及其大小对BEC隧穿率的影响.     

Resonantly enhanced tunneling of Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials

We report on measurements of resonantly enhanced tunneling of Bose-Einstein condensates loaded into an optical lattice. By controlling the initial conditions of our system we were able to observe resonant tunneling in the ground and the first two excited states of the lattice wells. We also investigated the effect of the intrinsic nonlinearity of the condensate on the tunneling resonances.     

对称抛物势阱磁性隧道结中的自旋输运及磁电阻效应

研究了两端具有铁磁接触的对称抛物势阱磁性隧道结(F/SPW/F)中自旋相关的隧穿概率和隧穿磁电阻,讨论了量子尺寸效应和Rashba 自旋轨道耦合作用对自旋极化输运特性的影响.研究结果表明:隧穿概率和隧穿磁电阻随抛物势阱宽度的增加发生周期性的振荡.抛物势阱深度的增加减小了隧穿概率和隧穿磁电阻的振荡频率.Rashba 自旋轨道耦合强度的增加加大了隧穿概率和隧穿磁电阻的振荡频率.隧穿概率和隧穿磁电阻的振幅和峰谷比强烈依赖于两铁磁电极中磁化方向的夹角. 关键词： 磁性隧道结 Rashba 自旋轨道耦合 隧穿概率 隧穿磁电阻     

Plasmonic Zener tunneling in metal-dielectric waveguide arrays

We elucidate in this Letter plasmonic Zener tunneling (PZT) in metal-dielectric waveguide arrays (MDWAs) by using numerical simulations and theoretical analyses. PZT in MDWAs occurs at the waveguide entrance and wherever the beam completes Bloch oscillations, because the bandgap between the first and second bands is minimal at the center of the first Brillouin zone. This feature significantly differs from that of optical Zener tunneling in dielectric waveguide arrays. The dependence of the simulated tunneling rate on the gradient of the relative permittivity of the dielectric layers correlates with the tunneling theory, thus confirming the occurrence of PZT in MDWAs.     

Red-shift law of intense laser-induced electro-absorption in solids

A theoretical study on the red-shift of laser-induced electro-absorption is presented. It is found that laser-induced red-shift scales with the cube root of the pump laser intensity in the optical tunneling regime and has an obvious deviation from this scale in the multi-photon regime. Our results show that in the optical tunneling regime, the laser-induced red shift has the same law as that in the direct current （DC） approximation. Though the scales are the same in the optical tunneling regime, the physical pictures in the two cases are quite different. The electro-absorption in the DC case is a tunneling-assisted transition process, while the laser-induced electro-absorption is a mixed multi-photon process.     

中波HgCdTe双色红外探测器优化模拟计算

针对光伏型中波HgCdTe双色红外探测器作了优化模拟计算，器件采用典型n-p-p-p-n结构和同时工作模式，建立的二维模型考虑了辐射复合、俄歇复合和Shockley-Read-Hall(SRH)复合三种复合机理，以及深能级辅助隧穿和带间直接隧穿效应，载流子穿过阻挡层势垒的隧道效应采用传递矩阵法计算.分析了双色器件光谱响应随吸收区SRH复合少子(电子)寿命的变化关系，以及串音与阻挡层组分的关系.模拟结果显示，随吸收区少子寿命变短，量子效率迅速下降；为了使器件有较高的量子效率，HgCdTe材料的SRH复合电子寿命应该至少在10ns以上.随阻挡层组分增大，势垒增高，串音迅速减小，大约在阻挡层组分差为0.03时下降到光学串音决定的稳定值，得出了抑制电学串音，阻挡层组分差的临界值为0.03. 关键词： HgCdTe中波双色红外探测器 光谱响应 光谱串音 少子寿命     

Asymmetric Landau-Zener tunneling in a periodic potential

Using a simple model for nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling between two energy bands of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodic potential, we find that the tunneling rates for the two directions of tunneling are not the same. Tunneling from the ground state to the excited state is enhanced by the nonlinearity, whereas in the opposite direction it is suppressed. These findings are confirmed by numerical simulations of the condensate dynamics. Measuring the tunneling rates for a condensate of rubidium atoms in an optical lattice, we have found experimental evidence for this asymmetry.     

半导体三量子点中的多透明窗口及弱光孤子的调控

考虑半导体量子点间隧穿耦合效应,研究非对称半导体三量子点分子中的弱探测光的传播特性。线性情况下,由于点间隧穿耦合和外部控制光的协同调控,探测光的吸收特性将出现共振吸收、隧穿诱导透明单窗口、隧穿诱导透明双窗口及隧穿诱导透明三窗口的转变。此外,从反常色散到正常色散的开关效应可通过改变隧穿强度及光学控制场强度来实现。对于非线性情况,发现孤子的振幅随着点间隧穿耦合系数增大呈先增大再减小随即再次增大并减小的波动变化趋势且出现最大振幅及其对应的点间隧穿耦合强度随着外部控制光场的增大而减小。此外,发现孤子的群速度随着耦合强度的增加呈逐渐减小的趋势。