Characteristics of Coherent Photon Transport in Semiconductor Waveguide Cavity System.

We have studied the characteristic feature of coherent photon transport in a semiconductor waveguide. We have presented a semiconductor master equation formalism that accurately simulated coherent input or output coupling of semiconductor cavity quantum electrodynamics systems such as planar photonic crystals and micropillar cavities. The role of quantized multiphoton effects pointed out the possible failure of weak excitation approximation, which was found to fail even for low input powers and small mean cavity photon numbers. For increasing field strengths, possible failure of the semiclassical approach was taken into account. In the weak coupling regime, higher order quantum correlation effects, were shown to be significant. We have introduced the general theoretical technique to simulate coherent photon transport outside both the weak excitation approximation and the semi classical approximation. Electron-phonon interactions at a microscopic level were derived using polaron transformation. We have demonstrated that substantial deviations from the weak excitation approximation resulted for very small mean photon numbers. We have modified the master equation approach to include the mechanism of electron-acoustic scattering and studied the impact of electron-phonon interaction on incoherent scattering and coherent renormalization of the exciton cavity coupling rate, qualitative differences from simple Lorentzian decay model containing quantum dot were found. We have also studied the transmission of light in the strong coupling regime and simulated a phase gate. We have found that coupling to an acoustic phonon bath caused considerable qualitative changes in light propagation characteristics modeled by a simple pure dephasing process. We have used the model to simulate a conditional phasegate. The obtained results were found in good agreement with previously obtained results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]