Electromagnetically induced holographic imaging in hybrid artificial molecule

We propose two schemes of holographic imaging with an object that has no any macro structure itself. The tunable electromagnetically induced grating (EIG) is such a kind of object. We obtain an EIG based on the periodically modulated strong susceptibility in a three-level ladder-type hybrid artificial molecule, which is comprised of a semiconductor quantum dot and a metal nanoparticle coupled via the Coulomb interaction. The holographic interference pattern is detected either directly in the way of classical holographic imaging with a coherent field being the imaging light, or indirectly and nonlocally in the way of two-photon coincidence measurement with a pair of entangled photons playing the role of imaging light. This work provides a practical prototype of electromagnetically induced transparency-based holographic solid-state devices for all-optical classical and quantum information processing. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America