Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 7, Issue 10, 886(2009)

Tunneling-induced \pi-phase shift with a single-photon signal field in asymmetric double quantum wells

Hongju Guo1,2, Lichun Wang1,2, Yueping Niu1, Shiqi Jin1, and Shangqing Gong1
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    A theoretical investigation is carried out into the cross phase modulation (XPM) in an asymmetric double AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wells structure with a common continuum. It is found that, combining resonant tunneling-induced transparency and constructive interference in the third-order Kerr effect, a giant XPM can be achieved with vanishing linear and nonlinear absorptions, accompanied by the velocities of the probe and signal fields being matched. Furthermore, this giant XPM could induce a \pi-phase shift at a single-photon level which is favorable for the applications in two-qubit quantum logic gates.

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    Hongju Guo, Lichun Wang, Yueping Niu, Shiqi Jin, Shangqing Gong. Tunneling-induced \pi-phase shift with a single-photon signal field in asymmetric double quantum wells[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2009, 7(10): 886

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    Received: Apr. 13, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 16, 2009

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20090710.0886

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