Sae Woo Nam

Publications

Ultra-sensitive mid-infrared emission spectrometer using a WSi superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

June 11, 2018

Author(s):

Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Li Chen, Dirk Schwarzer, Jascha A. Lau

We evaluate the performance of a mid-infrared emission spectrometer operating at wavelengths between 2 and 7 υm based on an amorphous tungsten silicide (a...

Heterogeneous integration for on-chip quantum photonic circuits with single quantum dot devices

October 12, 2017

Author(s):

Marcelo I. Davanco, Liu Jin, Luca Sapienza, Chen-Zhao Zhang, Jose Vinicius De Miranda Cardoso, Varun B. Verma, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Liu Liu, Kartik A. Srinivasan

Photonic integration is establishing itself as an enabling technology for photonic quantum science, offering considerably greater scalability, stability, and...

Multi-planar amorphous silicon photonics with compact interplanar couplers, cross talk mitigation, and low crossing loss

October 11, 2017

Author(s):

Jeffrey T. Chiles, Sonia M. Buckley, Nima Nader, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin, Jeffrey M. Shainline

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a photonic routing architecture that can efficiently utilize the space of multi-plane (3D) photonic integration. A...

All-silicon light-emitting diodes waveguide-integrated with superconducting single-photon detectors

October 02, 2017

Author(s):

Sonia M. Buckley, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Adam N. McCaughan, Galan A. Moody, Kevin L. Silverman, Martin J. Stevens, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

An on-chip, silicon-compatible light source has long been pursued for telecommunications, with limited success. However, for integrated systems utilizing...

Verification of Calibration Methods for Determining Photon-Counting Detection Efficiency using Superconducting Nano-Wire Single Photon Detectors

September 04, 2017

Author(s):

Igor Vayshenker, Robert D. Horansky, John H. Lehman, Malcolm G. White, Sae Woo Nam, Ingmar Mueller, Lutz Werner, G. Wuebbeler

In the recent years several ways to radiometrically calibrate optical fiber-coupled detectors have been developed. However, fiber-coupled calibration methods...