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NATURE PHYSICS
卷 12, 期 11, 页码 1012-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3819
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- European Research Council [319286]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB925]
- US Department of Energy, Division of Materials Science [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- European Research Council (ERC) [319286] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Many applications in photonics require all-optical manipulation of plasma waves(1), which can concentrate electromagnetic energy on sub-wavelength length scales. This is difficult in metallic plasmas because of their small optical nonlinearities. Some layered superconductors support Josephson plasma waves(2,3), involving oscillatory tunnelling of the superfluid between capacitively coupled planes. Josephson plasma waves are also highly nonlinear(4), and exhibit striking phenomena such as cooperative emission of coherent terahertz radiation(5,6), superconductor-metal oscillations(7) and soliton formation(8). Here, we show that terahertz Josephson plasma waves can be parametrically amplified through the cubic tunnelling nonlinearity in a cuprate superconductor. Parametric amplification is sensitive to the relative phase between pump and seed waves, and may be optimized to achieve squeezing of the order-parameter phase fluctuations9 or terahertz single-photon devices.
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