Micro-scale Fabry–Perot interferometer with high spectral resolution and tunable transmission frequency via chiral waveguide-emitter coupling

Abstract A micro-scale Fabry–Perot interferometer with high spectral resolution and tunable transmission frequency is proposed. In this scheme, two partially reflecting mirrors with a separation of several wavelengths is fabricated in a waveguide, and a two-level emitter is located between the mirrors and coupled to the waveguide with chiral interaction. We analytically show that the single emitter plays the role of a strongly dispersive medium and the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the transmission fringes around the resonance frequency of the emitter can be narrowed by 5 orders of magnitude. The proposed micro-scale interferometer can have the same spectral resolution as meter-scale traditional interferometers. We also show that the central frequency of the narrowed transmission fringe can be tuned by adjusting the asymmetry of the emitter-waveguide coupling. Our scheme has potential applications in the fields of integrated optical circuit and quantum information processing.