All-optical control of weak-light transport and Fano-like resonance using control-probe technique in a quantum-dot-pillar microcavity system

Control of light by light is a current research topic and is important for a variety of fundamental studies and practical applications. Here, we put forward a chip-scale scheme for all-optical control of small-signal photon transport and Fano-like lineshape in a coupled quantum-dot-pillar microcavity system based on a control-probe technique. Specifically, a bichromatic input light field, which consists of a weak probe field and a tunable control field, is applied to simultaneously drive the pillar cavity mode (called the control-probe technique) and both its reflectivity from and transmittivity through the pillar cavity constitute two output channels (i.e., a reflectivity signal channel and a transmittivity signal channel). We derive full analytical expressions for the reflectivity and transmittivity coefficients via a perturbation method. Using experimentally realistic parameters, theoretical analysis shows that the output probe light of the reflectivity and transmittivity channels can be switched on or...