Engineering chiral light matter interaction in photonic crystal waveguides with slow light
We design photonic crystal waveguides with efficient chiral light matter interfaces that can be integrated with solid state quantum emitters. By using glide plane symmetric waveguides, we show that chiral light matter interaction can exist even in the presence of slow light with slowdown factors of up to 100 and therefore the light matter interaction exhibits both strong Purcell enhancement and chirality. This allows for near unity directional b factors for a range of emitter positions and frequencies. Additionally, we design an efficient mode adapter to couple light from a standard nanobeam waveguide to the glide plane symmetric photonic crystal waveguide. Our work sets the stage for performing future experiments on a solid state platform. c (c) 2016 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (270.5580) Quantum electrodynamics; (350.4238) Nanophotonics and photonic crystals. References and links 1. J. T. 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