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Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics

Quantum optics studies how photons interact with other forms of matter, the understanding of which was crucial for the development of quantum mechanics as a whole. Starting from the photoelectric effect, the quantum property of light has led to the develop ...

EPFL2024

Generation of entangled photon pairs from a silicon bichromatic photonic crystal cavity

Matteo Galli, Thanavorn Poempool, Marco Clementi

Integrated quantum photonics leverages the on-chip generation of nonclassical states of light to realize key functionalities of quantum devices. Typically, the generation of such nonclassical states relies on whispering gallery mode resonators, such as int ...

Aip Publishing2024

Down-conversion of a single photon as a probe of many-body localization

Cristiano Ciuti

Decay of a particle into more particles is a ubiquitous phenomenon to interacting quantum systems, taking place in colliders, nuclear reactors or solids. In a nonlinear medium, even a single photon would decay by down-converting (splitting) into lower-freq ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Majed Chergui

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense, coherent and tunable. They are enabling a broad range of nonlinear optical and s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Pixel super-resolution with spatially entangled photons

Edoardo Charbon, Jiuxuan Zhao

Pixelation is common in quantum imaging systems and limit the image spatial resolution. Here, the authors introduce a pixel super-resolution approach based on measuring the full spatially-resolved joint probability distribution of spatially-entangled photo ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Cavity-mediated electron-photon pairs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

Quantum information, communication, and sensing rely on the generation and control of quantum correlations in complementary degrees of freedom. Free electrons coupled to photonics promise novel hybrid quantum technologies, although single-particle correlat ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Non-classical photon-phonon correlations at room temperature

Santiago Tarrago Velez

With the development of quantum optics, photon correlations acquired a prominent role as a tool to test our understanding of physics, and played a key role in verifying the validity of quantum mechanics. The spatial and temporal correlations in a light fie ...

EPFL2021

n-photon blockade with an n-photon parametric drive

Fabrizio Minganti, Wei Qin

We propose a mechanism to engineer an n-photon blockade in a nonlinear cavity with an n-photon parametric drive lambda(adagger n + an). When an n-photon-excitation resonance condition is satisfied, the presence of n photons in the cavity suppress ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Quantum coherent microwave-optical transduction using high-overtone bulk acoustic resonances

Tobias Kippenberg

A device capable of converting single quanta of the microwave field to the optical domain is an outstanding endeavor in the context of quantum interconnects between distant superconducting qubits, but likewise can have applications in other fields, such as ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Full-field quantum imaging with a single-photon avalanche diode camera

Edoardo Charbon, Jiuxuan Zhao

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays are essential tools in biophotonics, optical ranging and sensing, and quantum optics. However, their small number of pixels, low quantum efficiency, and small fill factor have so far hindered their use for practi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

System, device and method for quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A system for photon correlation of an illuminated object and/or a light source, including a light source for illuminating the object or to correlate, an optical system having an object-facing side configured to face the object or the light source and a pro ...

2020

Molecular Platform for Frequency Upconversion at the Single-Photon Level

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Tobias Kippenberg, Philippe Andreas Rölli

Direct detection of single photons at wavelengths beyond 2 mu m under ambient conditions remains an outstanding technological challenge. One promising approach is frequency upconversion into the visible (VIS) or near-infrared (NIR) domain, where single-pho ...

American Physical Society2020

Room temperature single photon emission from planar GaN/AlN quantum dot samples grown by MBE

Nicolas Grandjean, Sebastian Pascal Tamariz Kaufmann, Gordon Jens Callsen

We present an overview on the growth and the optical properties of GaN quantum dots (QDs) embedded in planar AlN grown on the following three different types of substrates: single AlN crystal, AlN on sapphire, and AIN on Si(111). QD density control over th ...

IEEE2019

High-rate photon pairs and sequential Time-Bin entanglement with Si3N4 microring resonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov

Integrated photonics is increasing in importance for compact, robust, and scalable enabling quantum technologies. This is particularly interesting for developing quantum communication networks, where resources need to be deployed in the field. We exploit p ...

2019

Quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Temporal photon correlation measurement, instrumental to probing the quantum properties of light, typically requires multiple single photon detectors. Progress in single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array technology highlights their potential as high-perf ...

2019

Integrated Gallium Phosphide Photonics

Katharina Schmeing

The integration of new materials mediating light-matter interaction in nanoscale devices is a persistent goal in nanophotonics. One of these materials is Gallium phosphide, which offers an attractive combination of a high refractive index (n=3.05 at a wave ...

EPFL2019

Light Confinement and Nonlinear Light-Matter Interaction in Semiconductor Photonic Crystal Cavities

Mohamed Sabry Abdel-Aliem Mohamed

The ability to control and manipulate light is a fundamental aspect that is at the very core of the development of integrated photonic circuits. It is desirable to achieve such control down to a scale that is comparable to or smaller than the wavelength of ...

EPFL2018

Dynamic range extension for photon counting arrays

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Confocal microscopes use photomultiplier tubes and hybrid detectors due to their large dynamic range, which typically exceeds the one of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The latter, due to their photon counting operation, are usually limited to an o ...

2018

Optical second harmonic generation from nanostructured graphene: a full wave approach

Olivier Martin, Gabriel David Bernasconi, Raziman Thottungal Valapu, Jérémy Butet, Bruno Majérus

Optical second harmonic generation (SHG) from nanostructured graphene has been studied in the framework of classical electromagnetism using a surface integral equation method. Single disks and dimers are considered, demonstrating that the nonlinear convers ...

2017

Optospintronics in Graphene via Proximity Coupling

Andras Kis, Oriol López Sánchez, Dmitrii Unuchek, Ahmet Avsar

The observation of micrometer size spin relaxation makes graphene a promising material for applications in spintronics requiring long-distance spin communication. However, spin dependent scatterings at the contact/graphene interfaces affect the spin inject ...

American Chemical Society2017