Photon antibunching in the optical near field

Renaud Marty (1) , Arnaud Arbouet (1) , Vincent Paillard (1) , Christian Girard (1) , Gérard Colas Des Francs (2)

1 CEMES - Centre d'élaboration de matériaux et d'études structurales
2 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

We show that a combination of the field-susceptibility technique with the optical Bloch equations gives access to the temporal evolution of the populations and coherences of any quantum system placed in the optical near field of a nanostructure. In particular, we show that the near-field evanescent states, confined around dielectric or plasmonic particles, can be used to modify and control the photon statistics of the quantum system. This theoretical scheme leads to second-order autocorrelation functions in good agreement with recent experimental measurements performed with nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond nanocrystals placed in interaction with gold nanoparticles.

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Renaud Marty, Arnaud Arbouet, Vincent Paillard, Christian Girard, Gérard Colas Des Francs. Photon antibunching in the optical near field. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2010, 82 (8), pp.081403(R). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.82.081403⟩. ⟨hal-00512232⟩