Coupled cavity polaritons for switching and slow light applications

Abstract We derive the frequency response of a chain of weakly coupled cavities, loaded with three-level quantum systems; one transition of the quantum state is entangled with the cavity mode, and the other one is driven by an external field not related to any cavity mode. In a system composed of photonic crystals and quantum states, we can exploit two quantum optical effects: the first due to a totally destructive interference between an incoming field and the field radiated by a dipole in a cavity in Purcell regime, known as “dipole-induced reflectivity” (DIR) reminiscent of the “dipole-induced transparency” reported by Waks et al. [E. Waks, J. Vuckovic, Dipole induced transparency in Drop-Filter Cavity-Waveguide Systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 153601], and the “electromagnetic-induced transparency” (EIT) in a quantum state. We demonstrate that it is possible to design tunable flat response filters using external fields with different Rabi frequency values, and furnish the design guidelines for tunable delay lines with very large bandwidth.