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Strong coupling between distant photonic nanocavities and its dynamic control

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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 56-61

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2011.286

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  1. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
  2. FIRST
  3. Global Centre of Excellence for Education and Research on Photonics and Electronics Science and Engineering of Kyoto University, Japan
  4. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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The formation of a coupled state among on-chip, photonic nanostructures at arbitrary positions as well as its dynamic control are important in the realization of next-generation photonic circuits with elevated functionality such as stopping/slowing of light and quantum information processing. Here, we demonstrate that strong coupling and its dynamic control can be realized for distant, ultrahigh-Q photonic nanocavities. We use a pair of nanocavities with Q-factors exceeding 400,000, connected indirectly by a waveguide with a modified density of states. Surprisingly, even though the distance between the nanocavities exceeds 100 wavelengths, we clearly observe Rabi oscillation, indicating their strong coupling. This oscillation exchanges photons between the nanocavities with a period of 54 ps while concentrating them in the nanocavities, not in the waveguide. In addition, by dynamically controlling the properties of either nanocavity, this exchange of photons can be stopped on demand, freezing the photon state.

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