Tailoring Optical Nonlinearities via the Purcell Effect

Tailoring optical nonlinearities via the Purcell effect.

We predict that the effective nonlinear optical susceptibility can be tailored using the Purcell effect. While this is a general physical principle that applies to a wide variety of nonlinearities, we specifically investigate the Kerr nonlinearity. We show theoretically that using the Purcell effect for frequencies close to an atomic resonance can substantially influence the resultant Kerr nonl...

Nonlinearities of Optical Fibers

Third Order Optical Nonlinearities

V. OPTICAL KERR EFFECT ........................................................................................................................... 11 • BOUND ELECTRONIC OPTICAL KERR EFFECT IN SOLIDS.................................................................................... 11 • RE-ORIENTATIONAL KERR EFFECT IN LIQUIDS ........................................................................

Magnetic Purcell effect in nanophotonics

Denis G. Baranov, 2, ∗ Roman S. Savelev, Sergey V. Li, Alexander E. Krasnok, 4 and Andrea Alù Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy per., Dolgoprudny 141700, Russia ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,...

An antenna model for the Purcell effect

The Purcell effect is defined as a modification of the spontaneous emission rate of a quantum emitter at the presence of a resonant cavity. However, a change of the emission rate of an emitter caused by an environment has a classical counterpart. Any small antenna tuned to a resonance can be described as an oscillator with radiative losses, and the effect of the environment on its radiation can...