Generation of bonding and antibonding photonic modes in laser-induced photonic double quantum wells

Abstract

We study generation of photonic modes, including bonding and antibonding modes, in a laser-induced photonic double quantum well. Such a quantum well is formed via illumination of a special type of a photonic waveguide structure (photonic superstructure) with a laser field. Striking similarities between states of electrons in electronic double quantum wells and photonic modes in symmetric and asymmetric photonic double quantum wells are predicted. We show that in such photonic quantum wells one can use the laser field to control the degree of mixing of the bonding and antibonding photonic modes (subbands), forming pure to strongly mixed transmission states.