Collective spontaneous emission and strong coupling in semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials

Author

Shekhar, Prashant ; Jacob, Zubin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

483

Lastpage

484

Abstract

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMM) have found applications in imaging, thermal emission control, subwavelength waveguiding and single photon emission. In this paper, it is shown that unique HMM modes, normally evanescent in conventional materials, can lead to novel collective emission and absorption effects. A semiconductor based hyperbolic metamaterial system is proposed, which shows strong coupling with intersubband transitions (ISBTs) of embedded quantum wells.The predicted effect can be verified by angle-resolved-mid-IR-spectroscopy and shows vacuum Rabi splitting energies approaching the ultra-strong coupling limit.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; infrared spectra; optical metamaterials; semiconductor quantum wells; spontaneous emission; HMM; ISBT; absorption effects; angle-resolved midIR-spectroscopy; collective spontaneous emission; embedded quantum wells; intersubband transitions; semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials; single photon emission; strong coupling; subwavelength waveguiding; thermal emission control; vacuum Rabi splitting energies; Couplings; Dielectrics; Hidden Markov models; High K dielectric materials; Metamaterials; Optical surface waves; Slabs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Bellevue, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1506-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656647

Filename

6656647