AA2 – Nano and Quantum Technologies

Project

AA2-16

Tailored Entangled Photon Sources for Quantum Technology

Project Heads

Sven Burger, Stephan Reitzenstein

Project Members

Felix Binkowski

Project Duration

01.04.2022 − 31.03.2025

Located at

ZIB

Description

The project aims at developing and employing numerical methods for simulation and optimization of coupled emitter – cavity systems, and to use these methods for designing systems of quantum dots coupled to integrated, high-Q microcavities for state engineering. Further, we aim at coupling efficiency enhancement for integrated, waveguide-coupled setups. A main goal is the investigation and development of contour-integral-based methods for eigensolvers and for resonance expansion, and their application to topical devices for photonic quantum technology. A schematics of a contour-integral-based resonance expansion is depicted in Fig. 1.

Research results of this project include the numerical optimization of fiber-coupled single-photon sources [1] and of photonic crystal cavities [2], a new method to compute eigenfrequency sensitivities [3], a method for resonance expansions of quadratic quantities [4], a method for the computation of poles and zeros and their sensitivities [5], the accurate and efficient numerical computation of eigenfrequency sensitivities near exceptional points [6] (see Fig. 2), and an approach for the rational approximation of photonic response functions with the AAA algorithm [7] (see Fig. 3). Further research results of this project include applications of the developed methods to systems of emitters and plasmonic and nanooptical resonators [8-15] and to state engineering of quantum gases [16].

Research data and software have been made available via open access data publications [17-25].

External Website

ZIB MATH+ project AA2-16 website

ZIB Computational Nano Optics group

Related Publications

  1. Numerical optimization of single-mode fiber-coupled single-photon sources based on semiconductor quantum dots, Lucas Bremer, Carlos Jimenez, Simon Thiele, Ksenia Weber, Tobias Huber, Sven Rodt, Alois Herkommer, Sven Burger, Sven Höfling, Harald Giessen, Stephan Reitzenstein. Opt. Express 30, 15913 (2022)
  2. Fabrication uncertainty guided design optimization of a photonic crystal cavity by using Gaussian processes, Matthias Plock, Felix Binkowski, Lin Zschiedrich, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Sven Burger, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 41, 850 (2024)
  3. Computation of eigenfrequency sensitivities using Riesz projections for efficient optimization of nanophotonic resonators, Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Martin Hammerschmidt, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger, Commun. Phys. 5, 202 (2022)
  4. Resonance expansion of quadratic quantities with regularized quasinormal modes, Fridtjof Betz, Felix Binkowski, Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger, Phys. Status Solidi A 220, 2200892 (2023)
  5. Poles and zeros in non-Hermitian systems: Application to photonics, Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Remi Colom, Patrice Genevet, Sven Burger, Phys. Rev. B 109, 045414 (2024)
  6. Computing eigenfrequency sensitivities near exceptional points, Felix Binkowski, Julius Kullig, Fridtjof Betz, Lin Zschiedrich, Andrea Walther, Jan Wiersig, Sven Burger, Physical Review Research 6, 023148 (2024)
  7. Efficient rational approximation of optical response functions with the AAA algorithm, Fridtjof Betz, Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger, Felix Binkowski, preprint arXiv:2403.19404 (2024)
  8. Crossing of the branch cut: the topological origin of a universal 2π-phase retardation in non-Hermitian metasurface, Remi Colom, Elena Mikheeva, Karim Achouri, Jesus Zuniga-Perez, Nicolas Bonod, Olivier J. F. Martin, Sven Burger, Patrice Genevet, Laser Photonics Rev. 17, 2200976 (2023)
  9. Enhanced Purcell factor for nanoantennas supporting interfering resonances, Remi Colom, Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Yuri Kivshar, Sven Burger, Phys. Rev. Research 4, 023189 (2022)
  10. Onset of Chirality in Plasmonic Meta-molecules and Dielectric Coupling, Kevin Martens, Timon Funck, Eva Y. Santiago, Alexander O. Govorov, Sven Burger, Tim Liedl, ACS Nano 16, 16143 (2022)
  11. Chiral bio-inspired plasmonics: a paradigm shift for optical activity and photochemistry, Oscar Avalos-Ovando, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Artur Movsesyan, Xiang-Tian Kong, Peng Yu, Lucas V. Besteiro, Larousse Khosravi Khorashad, Hiromi Okamoto, Joseph M. Slocik, Miguel Correa-Duarte, Miguel Comesana-Hermo, Tim Liedl, Gil Markovich, Sven Burger, Alexander O. Govorov, ACS Photonics 9, 2219 (2022)
  12. Plasmonic nanocrystals with complex shapes for photocatalysis and growth: Contrasting anisotropic hot-electron generation with the photothermal effect, Artur Movsesyan, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Sven Burger, Miguel A. Correa-Duarte, Lucas V. Besteiro, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O. Govorov, Adv. Opt. Mater. 10, 2102663 (2022)
  13. Colloidal Titanium Nitride Nanobars for Broadband Inexpensive Plasmonics and Photochemistry from Visible to Mid-IR Wavelengths, Sourav Rej, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Olga Baturina, Yu Zhang, Sven Burger, Stepan Kment, Alexander O. Govorov, Alberto Naldoni, Nano Energy 104, 107989 (2022)
  14. Asymmetric phase modulation with light with parity-symmetry broken metasurfaces, Elena Mikheeva, Remi Colom, Karim Achouri, Adam Overvig, Felix Binkowski, Jean-Yves Duboz, Sebastien Cueff, Shanhui Fan, Sven Burger, Andrea Alú, Patrice Genevet, Optica 10, 1287 (2023)
  15. Chiral and directional optical emission from a dipole source coupled to a helical plasmonic antenna, Lilli Kuen, Lorenz Löffler, Aleksei Tsarapkin, Lin Zschiedrich, Thorsten Feichtner, Sven Burger, Katja Höflich, Appl. Phys. Lett. 124, 231102 (2024)
  16. Bayesian optimization for state engineering of quantum gases, Gabriel Müller, VJ Martínez-Lahuerta, Ivan Sekulic, Sven Burger, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Naceur Gaaloul, preprint arXiv:2404.18234 (2024)
  17. RPExpand, Fridtjof Betz, Felix Binkowski, Sven Burger, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7840116 (2023)
  18. Source code and simulation results for nanoantennas supporting an enhanced Purcell factor due to interfering resonances, Remi Colom, Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Yuri Kivshar, Sven Burger, Zenodo, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.6565850 (2022)
  19. Source code and simulation data for Computation of eigenfrequency sensitivities using Riesz projections for efficient optimization of nanophotonic resonators, Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Martin Hammerschmidt, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger, Zenodo, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.6614951 (2022)
  20. Source code and simulation results for computing resonance expansions of quadratic quantities with regularized quasinormal modes, Fridtjof Betz, Felix Binkowski, Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7376556 (2022)
  21. Source code and simulation results: Poles and zeros of electromagnetic quantities in photonic systems, Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Rèmi Colom, Patrice Genevet, Sven Burger, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8063931 (2023)
  22. Research data for “Fabrication uncertainty guided design optimization of a photonic crystal cavity by using Gaussian processes”, Matthias Plock, Felix Binkowski, Lin Zschiedrich, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Sven Burger, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8131611 (2024)
  23. Source code and simulation results: Computing eigenfrequency sensitivities near exceptional points, Felix Binkowski, Julius Kullig, Fridtjof Betz, Lin Zschiedrich, Andrea Walther, Jan Wiersig, Sven Burger, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10715639 (2024)
  24. Source Code and Simulation Results: Chiral and directional optical emission from a dipole source coupled to a helical plasmonic antenna, Lilli Kuen, Lorenz Löffler, Aleksei Tsarapkin, Lin Zschiedrich, Thorsten Feichtner, Sven Burger, Katja Höflich, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10598255 (2024)
  25. Source code and simulation results: Efficient rational approximation of optical response functions with the AAA algorithm, Fridtjof Betz, Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger, Felix Binkowski, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10853692 (2024)

Related Pictures

Fig. 1. Schematics: Contour integrations in the complex frequency plane. The contours (dashed lines) encircling resonance frequencies (red crosses) allow to determine the corresponding modal fields. The outer contour (solid line) allows for evaluating the background contribution to the modal expansion of the field caused by the emitter at a real frequency.

Fig. 2. Combining contour integration and algorithmic differentiation yields eigenfrequency sensitivities near exceptional points. The sketch shows the electric field intensity near an exceptional point in a microdisk cavity.

Fig. 3. Rational approximation of the optical response of a metasurface. The approximation is based on sample points in the complex frequency plane and gives the poles, zeros, and residues of the underlying meromorphic function. The AAA algorithm can be used to compute the approximation.