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Dipole-fiber system: from single photon source to metadevices

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Radiation of an electric dipole (quantum emitter) in vicinity of optical structures still attracts great interest due to emerging of novel application and technological advances. Here we review our recent work on guided and radiation modes of electric dipole and optical fiber system and its applications from single photon source to metadevices. We demonstrate that the relative position and orientation of the dipole and the core diameter of the optical fiber are the two key defining factors of the coupled system application. We demonstrate that such a coupled system has a vast span of applications in nanophotonics; a single photon source, a high-quality factor sensor and the building block of metadevices.

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S. Atakaramians acknowledges the support of Australian Research Council (ARC) under the Discovery Early Career Project Award number DE140100614. T. M. Monro acknowledges the support of ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellowship.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Shaghik Atakaramians

  2. Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia

    Tanya M. Monro & Shahraam Afshar V.

  3. Laser Physics and Photonic Devices Laboratories, School of Engineering, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia

    Tanya M. Monro & Shahraam Afshar V.

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Dr. Shaghik Atakaramians is a Scientia Fellow at the Unieristy of New SouthWales (UNSW), Syndey. She joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunicates at UNSW in June 2017 and leads terahertz activities within the School.

Shaghik Atakaramians was awarded ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2014 on terahertz metamaterial waveguides. She worked at the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) at the University of Sydney from 2011 to 2017 as a postdoctoral and research fellow. She also worked for The Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) from 2012 to 2014.

Shaghik Atakaramians received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering with a Certificate of Merit from the Dean in 2011. Her PhD thesis has won the Gertrude Rohan Memorial Prize and 2011 University Doctoral Research Medal for outstanding research.

Prof. Tanya M. Monro took up the role of Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation in November 2014.

The ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow at the University of South Australia, Prof. Monro was the inaugural Director of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) from 2008 to 2014 and was also the inaugural Director for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at the University of Adelaide. Her research is in the field of photonics, with a focus on sensing, lasers and new classes of optical fibres.

Prof. Monro obtained her Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1998 from The University of Sydney, for which she was awarded the Bragg Gold Medal. In 2000, she received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton.

Prof. Monro is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the Australian Institute of Physics. She is a member of the Prime Minister’s Commonwealth Science Council (CSC), and a Board Member of the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the South Australian Defence Advisory Board, and the South Australian Economic Development Board.

Tanya’s awards include: Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, the Bragg Gold Medal (best Physics PhD in Australia), South Australia’s “Australian of the Year”, Scopus Young Researcher of the Year, South Australian Scientist of the Year, and the Prime Minister’s Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year.

A/Prof. Shahraam AfsharV. received his Ph.D. degree in Physics, Laser and Nonlinear Optics, from the University of Adelaide in 2001. From 1998 to 2001, he held a lecturer position at The University of Adelaide.

In 2001, he joined the fibre optics group at The University of Ottawa, where he worked on distributed strain and temperature sensors based on Brillouin scattering in optical fibers. In 2003, he received the NCIT fellowship from National Capital Institute of Telecommunication, Canada to work on Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fibres.

In 2005, he joined the Centre of Expertise in Photonics (CoEP) at the University of Adelaide, which later on formed into the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS). Since 2015, he is an Associate Professor of Photonics at School of Engineering of University of South Australia. His research interests cover different linear and nonlinear processes in optical waveguides including fiber optic sensors, nonlinear fibre optics, and strong light-matter interactions in subwavelength fibers.

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Atakaramians, S., Monro, T.M. & Afshar V., S. Dipole-fiber system: from single photon source to metadevices. Front. Optoelectron. 11, 30–36 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-018-0762-8

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