Abstract
We investigate spontaneous emission from a quantum emitter located within the mode volume of a microring resonator that features chiral exceptional points. We show that this configuration offers enough degrees of freedom to exhibit a full control to either enhance or suppress the emission process. Particularly, we demonstrate that the Purcell factor can be enhanced by a factor of two beyond its value in an identical microring operating at a diabolic point. Our conclusions, which are derived using a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian formalism, are confirmed by employing full-wave simulations of realistic photonic structures and materials. Our results offer a straightforward route to improve the performance of single photon sources using current photonics technology without the need for building optical resonators with ultrahigh quality factors or nanoscale volumes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 013220 |
Journal | Physical Review Research |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 8 2021 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy(all)