Single photon transport in two waveguides chirally coupled by a quantum emitter
Mu-Tian Cheng, Xiao-San Ma, Jiayan Zhang, Bing Wang · Optics Express · 2016
We investigate single photon transport in two waveguides coupled to a two-level quantum emitter (QE). With the deduced analytical scattering amplitudes, we show that under condition of the chiral coupling between the QE and the photon in the two waveguides, the QE can play the role of ideal quantum router to redirect a single photon incident from one waveguide into the other waveguide with a probability of 100% in the ideal condition. The influences of cross coupling between two waveguides and dissipations on the routing are also shown.