Author Affiliations
1School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China2Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, TEDA Institute of Applied Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China3Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 0 30006, China4Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong 250358, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Generalized laws of reflection and refraction. (a) Schematic of generalized laws of reflection and refraction
[44-45]; (b) anomalous refraction of wave in the plasmonic metasurface
[46]; (c) anomalous refraction of wave in the all-dielectric metasurface
[47] Fig. 2. Wavefront control of plasmonic metasurfaces. (a)(b) Anomalous reflection realized by the MIM metasurface
[56]; (c)(d) vector vortex beam generated by the MIM metasurface
[58]; (e)(f) simultaneous generation of anomalous refraction and reflection of the few-layer metasurface
[59] Fig. 3. Wavefront control at all-dielectric metasurfaces. (a) Electric and magnetic dipole responses in dielectric nanoparticles
[62]; (b) schematic of the unidirectional scattering
[63]; (c)(d) metalens
[67-68]; (e)(f) hologram
[64,69]; (g) wide-angle Fourier lens
[73]; (h) optical wavelength multiplexing with spin selective arbitrary energy distribution
[74]; (i) focusing beyond the diffraction limit
[75]; (j) nonlinear wavefront control
[77] Fig. 4. Quantum emitters integrated with metasurfaces. (a) Schematic of metasurface-enhanced single-photon emission in hBN flake
[36]; (b) photoluminescence (PL) spectra before and after the coupling between quantum emitter and supersurface; (c) second-order autocorrelation functions measured from the pristine and coupled systems; (d)(e) schematic of spinning single photons generated by a hybrid system of metasurface and NV center in diamond
[37]; (f)(g) far-field intensity and polarization distributions of right-hand and left-hand circularly polarized photons; (h)(i) measured far-field emission intensity distributions before and after the metasurface fabrication; (j)(k) second-order autocorrelation functions measured before and after the metasurface fabrication
Fig. 5. Quantum emitters integrated with SSBM
[38]. (a) Schematic of metasurface-enabled on-demand spin-state control of single-photon emission; (b)(c) simulated results of far-field scattering patterns of device 1 and device 2
Fig. 6. Quantum interference among the decay channels in a quantum emitter
[89]. (a)(b) Principle of metasurface-enabled remote anisotropic quantum vacuum; (c) simulated field intensity distribution of a dipole source; (d)(e) simulated reflection field intensity distribution of the
x dipole and
y dipole respectively; (f) anisotropic decay rate of a two-level atom; (g) excited state populations of a three-level atom
Fig. 7. Metalens-array-based high-dimensional and multiphoton quantum source
[39]. (a) Schematic of the quantum source; (b)image of SPDC photon-pair array recorded by EMCCD; (c)(d) four-photon and six-photon coincidence dependence to pump power; (e)(f) schematic and the measured result of the four-photon HOM interference
Fig. 8. Spontaneous photon-pair generation from a dielectric nanoantenna
[40]. (a) Schematic of photon-pair generation from AlGaAs nanoantenna through the SPDC process; (b) SFG process of polarization correlations in the nanoantenna; (c) measured coincidences counts of photon-pair
Fig. 9. Polarization entanglement manipulation and measurement of metasurfaces. (a)(b) Entanglement of the spin and orbital angular momentum of photons using all-dielectric metasurface
[41]; (c)-(e) reconstruction of multiphoton quantum states using all-dielectric metasurface
[42] Fig. 10. Path entanglement manipulation and measurement of metasurfaces
[43]. (a) Schematic of entanglement and disentanglement achieved by metasurface; (b) experiment setup for the generation and measurement of path-entangled two-photon NOON state; (c) normalized coincidence counts between detector D
1 and detector D
2+D
3; (d) schematic of quantum measurements on a metasurface-based interferometer; (e) experimental results of two-photon state with different time delays
Source type | Temperature /K | Wavelength range | Output spatial mode | g2(0) |
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Single molecule | 300 | 500-750 nm | Multi | 0.09 | Color center (NV) | 300 | 640-800 nm | Multi | 0.07 | QD (CdSe/ZnS) | 200 | 500-900 nm | Multi | 0.003 | QD (InAs) in cavity | 5 | 920-950 nm | Single | 0.02 | Single ion in cavity | ≈0 | Atomic line | Single | 0.015 | Single atom in cavity | ≈0 | Atomic line | Single | 0.06 |
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Table 1. Comparison of single-photon sources based on isolated quantum systems
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