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Light-controlled photon tunneling

Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 3314 (2002); doi:10.1063/1.1518778

Issue Date: 28 October 2002

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Igor I. Smolyaninov and Christopher C. Davis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Anatoly V. Zayats
Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
Recent measurements of photon tunneling through individual subwavelength pinholes in a gold film covered with a layer of polydiacetylene [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 187402 (2002)] has provided strong indication of "photon blockade" effects similar to Coulomb blockade phenomena observed in single-electron tunneling experiments. Here we report the observation of photon tunneling being blocked (gated) by light at a different wavelength. This suggests the possibility of building a class of "gated" photon tunneling devices for all-optical signal processing. ©2002 American Institute of Physics.
History: Received 16 May 2002; accepted 11 September 2002
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PACS
  • 78.67.-n
    Optical properties, condensed-matter spectroscopy and other interactions of radiation and particles with condensed matter Optical properties of nanoscale materials and structures
  • 42.50.-p
    Optics Quantum optics
  • 42.65.-k
    Optics Nonlinear optics
  • YEAR: 2002

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