A Fabry-Perot interferometer with quantum mirrors: nonlinear light transport and rectification

TL;DR

This paper presents a theoretical study of a one-dimensional Fabry-Perot interferometer with nonlinear quantum mirrors, revealing its potential as a microscopic optical rectifier due to non-linear and non-reciprocal light transport effects.

Contribution

It introduces a novel theoretical model of a Fabry-Perot interferometer with quantum two-level system mirrors, demonstrating non-linear and non-reciprocal light transport phenomena.

Findings

Device can operate as a microscopic optical rectifier

Non-linear effects enable non-reciprocal light transport

Theoretical analysis captures effects not previously reported

Abstract

Optical transport represents a natural route towards fast communications, and it is currently used in large scale data transfer. The progressive miniaturization of devices for information processing calls for the microscopic tailoring of light transport and confinement at length scales appropriate for the upcoming technologies. With this goal in mind, we present a theoretical analysis of a one-dimensional Fabry-Perot interferometer built with two highly saturable nonlinear mirrors: a pair of two-level systems. Our approach captures non-linear and non-reciprocal effects of light transport that were not reported previously. Remarkably, we show that such an elementary device can operate as a microscopic integrated optical rectifier.