Thermo-optically induced transparency on a photonic chip

Marco Clementi; Simone Iadanza; Sebastian A. Schulz; Giulia Urbinati; Dario Gerace; Liam O'Faloain; Matteo Galli

doi:10.1038/s41377-021-00678-4

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Thermo-optically induced transparency on a photonic chip

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- Thermo-optically induced transparency on a photonic chip
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 10, Issue 12, Pages: 2482-2491(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Via A. Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy
  2.Centre for Advanced Photonics and Process Analysis, Munster Technological University, Rossa Ave Bishopstown, Cork, T12 P928, Ireland
  3.Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings Complex Dyke Parade, Cork, T12 R5CP, Ireland
  4.SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK
  5.Present address: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Photonic Systems Laboratory (PHOSL), STI-IEL, Station 11, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
- Author bio：
  
  Marco Clementi (marco.clementi01@universitadipavia.it)
  Matteo Galli (matteo.galli@unipv.it)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-021-00678-4
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- Published：31 December 2021，
  
  Published Online：03 December 2021，
  
  Received：02 April 2021，
  
  Revised：11 October 2021，
  
  Accepted：09 November 2021
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Clementi, M. et al. Thermo-optically induced transparency on a photonic chip. Light: Science & Applications, 10, 2482-2491 (2021).
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Clementi, M. et al. Thermo-optically induced transparency on a photonic chip. Light: Science & Applications, 10, 2482-2491 (2021). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-021-00678-4.

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Abstract

Controlling the optical response of a medium through suitably tuned coherent electromagnetic fields is highly relevant in a number of potential applications

from all-optical modulators to optical storage devices. In particular

electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is an established phenomenon in which destructive quantum interference creates a transparency window over a narrow spectral range around an absorption line

which

in turn

allows to slow and ultimately stop light due to the anomalous refractive index dispersion. Here we report on the observation of a new form of both induced transparency and amplification of a weak probe beam in a strongly driven silicon photonic crystal resonator at room temperature. The effect is based on the oscillating temperature field induced in a nonlinear optical cavity

and it reproduces many of the key features of EIT while being independent of either atomic or mechanical resonances. Such thermo-optically induced transparency will allow a versatile implementation of EIT-analogs in an integrated photonic platform

at almost arbitrary wavelength of interest

room temperature and in a practical

low cost

and scalable system.

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