Few-photon all-optical phase rotation in a quantum-well micropillar cavity

Tintu Kuriakose; Paul M. Walker; Toby Dowling; Oleksandr Kyriienko; Ivan A. Shelykh; Phillipe St-Jean; Nicola Carlon Zambon; Aristide Lemaître; Isabelle Sagnes; Luc Legratiet; Abdelmounaim Harouri; Sylvain Ravets; Maurice S. Skolnick; Alberto Amo; Jacqueline Bloch; Dmitry N. Krizhanovskii

doi:10.1038/s41566-022-01019-6

Few-photon all-optical phase rotation in a quantum-well micropillar cavity

Tintu Kuriakose, Paul M. Walker^*, Toby Dowling, Oleksandr Kyriienko, Ivan A. Shelykh, Phillipe St-Jean, Nicola Carlon Zambon, Aristide Lemaître, Isabelle Sagnes, Luc Legratiet, Abdelmounaim Harouri, Sylvain Ravets, Maurice S. Skolnick, Alberto Amo, Jacqueline Bloch, Dmitry N. Krizhanovskii

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Photonic platforms are an excellent setting for quantum technologies as weak photon–environment coupling ensures long coherence times. The second key ingredient for quantum photonics is interactions between photons, which can be provided by optical nonlinearities in the form of cross-phase modulation. This approach underpins many proposed applications in quantum optics^1–7 and information processing⁸, but achieving its potential requires strong single-photon-level nonlinear phase shifts as well as scalable nonlinear elements. In this work we show that the required nonlinearity can be provided by exciton–polaritons in micropillars with embedded quantum wells. These combine the strong interactions of excitons^9,10 with the scalability of micrometre-sized emitters¹¹. We observe cross-phase modulation of up to 3 ± 1 mrad per polariton using laser beams attenuated to below the average intensity of a single photon. With our work serving as a stepping stone, we lay down a route for quantum information processing in polaritonic lattices.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	566-569
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Photonics
Volume	16
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01019-6
Publication status	Published - Aug 2022

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This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grants EP/N031776/1 and EP/V026496/1, the QUANTERA project Interpol (EP/R04385X/1 and ANR-QUAN-0003-05), the Paris Ile-de-France Région in the framework of DIM SIRTEQ, ERC StG ARQADIA (949730) and CoG EMERGENTOPO (865151), the Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship ToPol, the H2020-FETFLAG project PhoQus (820392) and the French RENATECH network. O.K. acknowledges the support from UK EPSRC New Investigator Award (EP/V00171X/1). A.A. acknowledges support from the Labex CEMPI (ANR-11-LABX-0007). I.A.S. acknowledges support from IRF (project ‘Hybrid polaritonics’) and Priority 2030 Federal Academic Leadership Program.

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Kuriakose, T., Walker, P. M., Dowling, T., Kyriienko, O., Shelykh, I. A., St-Jean, P., Zambon, N. C., Lemaître, A., Sagnes, I., Legratiet, L., Harouri, A., Ravets, S., Skolnick, M. S., Amo, A., Bloch, J., & Krizhanovskii, D. N. (2022). Few-photon all-optical phase rotation in a quantum-well micropillar cavity. Nature Photonics, 16(8), 566-569. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01019-6

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