title: Fabry-Perot interferometer with quantum mirrors: nonlinear light transport and rectification.
abstract: Optical transport represents a natural route towards fast communications, and it is currently used in large scale data transfer. The progressive miniaturization of devices for information processing calls for the microscopic tailoring of light transport and confinement at length scales appropriate for upcoming technologies. With this goal in mind, we present a theoretical analysis of a one-dimensional Fabry-Perot interferometer built with two highly saturable nonlinear mirrors: a pair of two-level systems. Our approach captures nonlinear and nonreciprocal effects of light transport that were not reported previously. Remarkably, we show that such an elementary device can operate as a microscopic integrated optical rectifier.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CP 702, 30123-970 Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut NÉEL, F-38042 Grenoble, France and CNRS, Institut NÉEL, F-38042 Grenoble, France and Department of Physics, University of Oulu, Box 3000, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fratini
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CP 702, 30123-970 Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mascarenhas
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Oulu, Box 3000, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland and IST Austria, Am Campus 1, A-3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Safari
authors.affiliation: Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut NÉEL, F-38042 Grenoble, France and CNRS, Institut NÉEL, F-38042 Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: J-Ph
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Poizat
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 78060-900 Cuiabá MT, Brazil.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Valente
authors.affiliation: Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut NÉEL, F-38042 Grenoble, France and CNRS, Institut NÉEL, F-38042 Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Auffèves
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gerace
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CP 702, 30123-970 Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Santos