TY - JOUR
T1 - Demonstration of quadrature-squeezed surface plasmons in a gold waveguide
AU - Huck, Alexander
AU - Smolka, Stephan
AU - Lodahl, Peter
AU - Sørensen, Anders S.
AU - Boltasseva, Alexandra
AU - Janousek, Jiri
AU - Andersen, Ulrik L.
PY - 2009/6/19
Y1 - 2009/6/19
N2 - We report on the efficient generation, propagation, and reemission of squeezed long-range surface-plasmon polaritons in a gold waveguide. Squeezed light is used to excite the nonclassical surface-plasmon polaritons, and the reemitted quantum state is fully characterized by complete quantum tomographic reconstruction of the density matrix. We find that the plasmon-assisted transmission of nonclassical light in metallic waveguides can be described by a beam splitter relation. This result is explained theoretically.
AB - We report on the efficient generation, propagation, and reemission of squeezed long-range surface-plasmon polaritons in a gold waveguide. Squeezed light is used to excite the nonclassical surface-plasmon polaritons, and the reemitted quantum state is fully characterized by complete quantum tomographic reconstruction of the density matrix. We find that the plasmon-assisted transmission of nonclassical light in metallic waveguides can be described by a beam splitter relation. This result is explained theoretically.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.246802
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.246802
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 102
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 24
M1 - 246802
ER -