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Nanotechnology

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On-chip multi-timescale spatiotemporal optical synchronization

September 12, 2025
Author(s)
Lida Xu, Mahmoud Mehrabad, Christopher Flower, Gregory Moille, Alessandro Restelli, Daniel Suarez-Forero, Yanne Chembo, Sunil Mittal, Kartik Srinivasan, Mohammad Hafezi
Mode locking is foundational to nonlinear optics, enabling advances in metrology, spectroscopy, and communications. However, it remains unexplored in nonharmonic, multi-timescale regimes. Here, we realize on-chip multi-timescale synchronization using

GRANAD - Simulating GRAphene nanoflakes with ADatoms

August 26, 2025
Author(s)
David Dams, Miriam Kosik, Marvin Muller, Abhishek Ghosh, Antton Babaze, Julia Szczuczko, Garnett Bryant, Andres Ayuela, Carsten Rockstuhl, Marta Pelc, Karolina Slowik
GRANAD is a new program based on the tight-binding approximation to simulate optoelectronic properties of graphene nanoflakes and Su–Schrieffer–Heeger (SSH) chains with possible adatom defects under electromagnetic illumination. Its core feature is the

All-Optical Quenching of Integrated Frequency Comb Noise

July 9, 2025
Author(s)
Gregory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Jordan Stone, Curtis Menyuk, Kartik Srinivasan
Integrated frequency combs promise transformation of lab-based metrology into disruptive real-world applications, particularly with octave-spanning microcombs enabling self-referenced optical synthesis and clock implementations. However, the integrated

Multi-color solitons and frequency combs in microresonators

May 15, 2025
Author(s)
Curtis Menyuk, Pradyoth Shandilya, Logan Courtright, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan
Multi-color solitons that are parametrically created in dual-pumped microresonators generate interleaved frequency combs that be used to obtain combs at new frequencies and when synchronized can be used for low-noise microwave generation and potentially as

On-Chip Parametric Synchronization of a Cavity Soliton Microcomb

May 13, 2025
Author(s)
Gregory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Miro Erkintalo, Curtis Menyuk, Kartik Srinivasan
Synchronization of oscillators is ubiquitous in nature. Often, the synchronized oscillators couple directly, yet in some cases synchronization can arise from their parametric interactions. Here, we theoretically predict and experimentally demonstrate the

Magneto-optics of a charge-tunable quantum dot: Observation of a negative diamagnetic shift

March 17, 2025
Author(s)
Giora Peniakov, A Beck, Eilon Poem, Zu-En Su, Boaz Taitler, Sven Hofling, Garnett Bryant, David Gershoni
We present magneto-optical studies of a self-assembled semiconductor quantum dot in neutral and positively charged states. The diamagnetic shifts and Zeeman splitting of many well identified optical transitions are precisely measured. Remarkably, a

Nanophotonic oscillators for laser conversion beyond an octave

February 11, 2025
Author(s)
Grant Brodnik, Haixin Liu, David Carlson, Jennifer Black, Scott Papp
Many uses of lasers place the highest importance on access to specific wavelength bands. For example, mobilizing optical-atomic clocks for a leap in sensing requires compact lasers at frequencies spread across the visible and near infrared. Integrated

Enhanced zero-phonon line emission from an ensemble of W centers in circular and bowtie Bragg grating cavities

November 19, 2024
Author(s)
Vijin Kizhake Veetil, Junyeob Song, Pradeep Namboodiri, Nikki Ebadollahi, Ashish Chanana, Aaron Katzenmeyer, Christian Pederson, Joshua Pomeroy, Jeff Chiles, Jeff Shainline, Kartik Srinivasan, Marcelo Davanco, Matthew Pelton
Color centers in silicon have recently gained considerable attention as a single-photon source [1,2] and as a spin qubit-photon interface [3] for quantum information applications. However, one of the major bottlenecks is their low overall brightness due to

Emerging integrated laser technologies in the visible and short near-infrared

October 18, 2024
Author(s)
Xiyuan Lu, Lin Chang, Minh Tran, Tin Komljenovic, John Bowers, Kartik Srinivasan
Applications in timekeeping, quantum sensing and quantum computing have sparked growing demand for high-performance photonic integrated circuit (PIC) lasers at visible and short near-infrared wavelengths between 400 nm and 1,000 nm. This Review summarizes

Three-dimensional, multi-wavelength beam formation with integrated metasurface optics for Sr laser c

October 17, 2024
Author(s)
Sindhu Jammi, Andrew Ferdinand, Zheng Luo, Zachary Newman, Grisha Spektor, Junyeob Song, Okan Koksal, William Lunden, Daniel Sheredy, Parth Patel, Martin Boyd, Wenqi Zhu, Amit Agrawal, Travis Briles, Scott Papp
We demonstrate formation of a complex, multi-wavelength, three-dimensional laser beam configuration with integrated metasurface optics. Our experiments support development of a compact Sr optical-lattice clock, which leverages magnetooptical trapping on

Gated InAs quantum dots embedded in surface acoustic wave cavities for low-noise optomechanics

October 8, 2024
Author(s)
Zixuan Wang, Ryan DeCrescent, Poolad Imany, Joseph Bush, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman
Self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) are promising optomechanical elements due to their excellent photonic properties and sensitivity to local strain fields. Microwave-frequency modulation of photons scattered from these efficient quantum emitters has

Strong interactions between integrated microresonators and alkali atomic vapors: towards single-atom, single-photon operation

September 24, 2024
Author(s)
Roy Zekzer, Xiyuan Lu, Khoi Hoang, Rahul Shrestha, Sharoon Austin, Feng Zhou, Ashish Chanana, Glenn Holland, Daron Westly, Paul Lett, Alexey Gorshkov, Kartik Srinivasan
Cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED), the interaction of a two-level system with a high quality factor (Q) cavity, is a foundational building block in different architectures for quantum computation, communication, and metrology. The strong interaction

Observation of topological frequency combs

June 21, 2024
Author(s)
Christopher Flower, Mahmoud Mehrabad, Lida Xu, Gregory Moille, Daniel Suarez-Forero, Yanne Chembo, Sunil Mittal, Kartik Srinivasan, Mohammad Hafezi
On-chip generation of optical frequency combs using nonlinear ring resonators has enabled numerous applications of combs that were otherwise limited to mode-locked lasers. Nevertheless, on-chip frequency combs have relied predominantly on single-ring

Laser Offset Stabilization with Chip-Scale Atomic Diffractive Elements

June 7, 2024
Author(s)
Heleni Krelman, Ori Nefesh, Kfir Levi, Douglas Bopp, Songbai Kang, Liron Stern, John Kitching
Achieving precise and adjustable control over laser frequency is an essential requirement in numerous applications such as precision spectroscopy, quantum control, and sensing. In many of such applications it is desired to stabilize a laser with a variable

Parametrically driven pure-Kerr dissipative solitons in a chip-integrated microcavity

March 14, 2024
Author(s)
Gregory Moille, Miriam Leonhardt, David Paligora, Nicolas Englebert, Francois Leo, Julien Fatome, Kartik Srinivasan, Miro Erkintalo
The discovery that externally-driven nonlinear optical resonators can sustain ultrashort pulses cor- responding to coherent optical frequency combs has enabled landmark advances in applications from telecommunications to sensing. The research focus has

Isotopic effects on in-plane hyperbolic phonon polaritons in MoO3

March 4, 2024
Author(s)
Jeremy Schultz, Sergiy Krylyuk, Jeffrey Schwartz, Albert Davydov, Andrea Centrone
Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs), hybrids of light and lattice vibrations in polar dielectric crystals, empower nano-photonic applications by enabling the confinement and manipulation of light at the nanoscale. Molybdenum trioxide (α-MoO3) is a

Threshold and Laser Conversion in Nanostructured-Resonator Parametric Oscillators

January 10, 2024
Author(s)
Haixin Liu, Grant Brodnik, Jizhao Zang, David Carlson, Jennifer Black, Scott Papp
We explore optical parametric oscillation (OPO) in nanophotonic resonators, enabling arbitrary, nonlinear phase matching and nearly lossless control of energy conversion. Such pristine OPO laser converters are determined by nonlinear light-matter
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