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OPTICA
Volume 6, Issue 6, Pages 799-804Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.6.000799
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [MURI FA9550-17-1-0002]
- Simons Foundation
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Confining light in open structures is a long-sought goal in nanophotonics and cavity quantum electrodynamics. Embedded eigenstates provide infinite lifetime despite the presence of available leakage channels, but in linear time-invariant systems they cannot be excited from the outside, due to reciprocity. Here, we investigate how atomic nonlinearities may support single-photon embedded eigenstates, which can be populated by a multi-photon excitation followed by internal relaxation. We calculate the system dynamics and show that photon trapping, as well as the reverse release process, can be achieved with arbitrarily high efficiencies. We also discuss the impact of loss, and a path toward the experimental verification of these concepts. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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