Control of spontaneous emission dynamics in microcavities with chiral exceptional surfaces

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how chiral exceptional points in microring resonators can be used to control spontaneous emission, enabling enhancement or suppression of emission rates without requiring ultrahigh-Q resonators.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach using chiral exceptional points to manipulate emission dynamics, surpassing traditional limitations of resonator quality factors.

Findings

Purcell factor can be doubled compared to diabolic points.

Full-wave simulations confirm theoretical predictions.

Method enables improved single photon sources with current technology.

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.