Strong Coupling and Coherent Phenomena in Semiconductor Metamaterials

• Author / Creator

  Shekhar, Prashant

• Metamaterials are nanoengineered materials with electromagnetic properties beyond those found in nature. Recently, interest has focused towards controlling light matter
  interaction using metamaterials for applications in nanoscale emitters from lasers to single photon sources. We propose an active metamaterial with embedded quantum wells that strongly interact with unique electromagnetic modes of the nanostructured medium. This strong interaction is characterized by the phenomenon of strong coupling wherein the modes of a metamaterial show energy splitting at the intersubband transition wavelength of the embedded quantum wells. Additionally, we show that semiconductor metamaterials can mediate superradiant behaviour between a pair of emitters across distances greater than their radiation wavelength. This work paves the way for realizing quantum strong coupling and coherent effects in semiconductor metamaterial structures.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Strong Coupling
  • Superradiance
  • Hyperbolic Metamaterial

• Graduation date

  Spring 2014

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Science

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3BC3T40M

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.