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Quantum Optical Transistor and Other Devices Based on Nanostructures

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Quantum Dot Devices

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Laser and strong coupling can coexist in a single quantum dot (QD) coupled to nanostructures. This provides an important clue toward the realization of quantum optical devices, such as quantum optical transistor, slow light device, fast light device, or light storage device. In contrast to conventional electronic transistor, a quantum optical transistor uses photons as signal carriers rather than electrons, which has a faster and more powerful transfer efficiency. Under the radiation of a strong pump laser, a signal laser can be amplified or attenuated via passing through a single quantum dot coupled to a photonic crystal (PC) nanocavity system. Such a switching and amplifying behavior can really implement the quantum optical transistor. By simply turning on or off the input pump laser, the amplified or attenuated signal laser can be obtained immediately. Based on this transistor, we further propose a method to measure the vacuum Rabi splitting of exciton in all-optical domain. Besides, we study the light propagation in a coupled QD and nanomechanical resonator (NR) system. We demonstrate that it is possible to achieve the slow light, fast light, and quantum memory for light on demand, which is based on the mechanically induced coherent population oscillation (MICPO) and exciton polaritons. These QD devices offer a route toward the use of all-optical technique to investigate the coupled QD systems and will make contributions to quantum internets and quantum computers.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10774101 and No. 10974133), the National Ministry of Education Program for Ph.D., the Foundation for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Award for Excellent New Doctoral Student (Ministry of Education), and the Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education).

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Li, JJ., Zhu, KD. (2012). Quantum Optical Transistor and Other Devices Based on Nanostructures. In: Wang, Z. (eds) Quantum Dot Devices. Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, vol 13. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3570-9_9

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