Quantum eye: Lattice plasmon effect on quantum fluctuations and photon detection

Journal Article · Sun Jul 15 04:00:00 EDT 2018 · Annals of Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AOP.2018.04.029· OSTI ID:22848354

Salmanogli, Ahmad; Geçim, H. Selcuk ^[1]

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1. Faculty of engineering, Electrical and Electronics engineering department, Çankaya University, Ankara (Turkey)

In this work, arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles coupled to a detector are designed and considered as a quantum eye. In the designed system, the plasmonic nanoparticles have a role like an ommatidium in the artificial compound eye; however, the quantum eye ommatidium acts with different functionality. To better understand this system, we analyze it with the full quantum theory, quantize lattice plasmon generated by the array of plasmonic nanoparticles, and finally derive bosonic operators using Heisenberg–Langevin equations. Moreover, we theoretically derive the radiative and non-radiative losses introduced by this system and examine lattice plasmon effect on spontaneous emission of the quantum dot (Purcell factor). The main goal of this article is to investigate the quantum eye’s quantum properties such as quantum fluctuations, which is modeled and analyzed by studying the second-order correlation function. This function exhibits a significant bunching as a function of lattice plasmon optical properties. We can easily manipulate and improve the lattice plasmon optical properties, which dramatically depend on the array geometry. Finally, we study the quantum eye photon detection by a quantum measuring approach and show that the lattice plasmon has a strong effect on quantum properties after the one-count process.

• OSTI ID: 22848354
• Journal Information: Annals of Physics, Journal Name: Annals of Physics Vol. 394; ISSN APNYA6; ISSN 0003-4916
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
CORRELATION FUNCTIONS
EMISSION
FLUCTUATIONS
HEISENBERG MODEL
LANGEVIN EQUATION
NANOPARTICLES
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PLASMONS
QUANTUM DOTS