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Nanotechnology

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Ultra-compact visible light depolarizer based on dielectric metasurface

February 4, 2020
Author(s)
Yilin Wang, Wenqi Zhu, Cheng Zhang, Qingbin Fan, Lu Chen, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Ting Xu
With rapid development towards shrinking the size of traditional photonic systems such as cameras, spectrometers, displays and illumination systems, there is an urgent need for high performance and ultra-compact functional optical elements. The large

Valley Phenomena in the Candidate Phase Change Material WSe2(1-x)Te2x

January 15, 2020
Author(s)
Sean M. Oliver, Joshua Young, Sergiy Krylyuk, Thomas L. Reinecke, Albert Davydov, Patrick M. Vora
Alloyed transition metals dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide the unique opportunity for coupling band engineering and valleytronic phenomena in an atomically-thin platform. However, valley properties remain largely unexplored in TMD alloys. Here, we

Milliwatt-threshold visible-telecom optical parametric oscillation using silicon nanophotonics

December 20, 2019
Author(s)
Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Anshuman Singh, Qing Li, Daron Westly, Ashutosh Rao, Su P. Yu, Travis Briles, Scott Papp, Kartik Srinivasan
The on-chip creation of coherent light at visible wavelengths is of interest to many applications in spectroscopy, sensing, and metrology. Towards that goal, here we propose and demonstrate the first on-chip visible-telecom optical parameteric oscillator

Tunable quantum beat of single photons enabled by nonlinear nanophotonics

November 22, 2019
Author(s)
Qing Li, Anshuman Singh, Xiyuan Lu, John Lawall, Varun Verma, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Kartik Srinivasan
Integrated photonics is a promising approach for scalable implementation of diverse quantum resources at the chip-scale. Here, we demonstrate the integration of two essential building blocks for quantum information science - quantum sources and frequency

Separation of Specific Single Enantiomer Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in the Large Diameter Regime

November 19, 2019
Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Fagan, Ming Zheng, Sofie Cambre, Wim Wenseleers, Benjamin Flavel, Han Li, Stephanie Reich, Georgy Gordeev, Oisin Garrity, Naga Peyyety, Ralph Krupke, Pranauv Selvasundaram
Enantiomer level isolation of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in high concentration and purity for nanotubes greater than 1.1 nm in diameter is demonstrated for the first time using a twostage aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) technique. In total 5

A kilopixel array of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

November 18, 2019
Author(s)
Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Sae Woo Nam, R P. Mirin, Emma Wollman, William Farr, Matthew Shaw
We present a 1024-element imaging array of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) using a 32x32 row-column multiplexing architecture. Large arrays are desirable for applications such as imaging, spectroscopy, or particle detection.

Advanced technologies for quantum photonic devices based on epitaxial quantum dots

October 11, 2019
Author(s)
Tian M. Zhao, Yan Chen, Yu Ying, Li Qing, Marcelo I. Davanco, Jin Liu
Photonic quantum technology is creating breakthroughs in both fundamental quantum science and applications such as quantum communication, computation and sensing. Regarded as artificial atoms due to the discrete energy levels they support, semiconductor

Microscopic origin of the chiroptical response of optical media

October 11, 2019
Author(s)
Matthew S. Davis, Wenqi Zhu, Jay K. Lee, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal
The potential for enhancing the optical activity of natural chiral media using engineered nanophotonic components has been central in the quest towards developing next-generation circular-dichroism spectroscopic techniques. Through confinement and

Ultrathin Wetting Layer-Free Plasmonic Gold Films

October 3, 2019
Author(s)
Robert Lemasters, Cheng Zhang, Manoj Manjare, Wenqi Zhu, Junyeob Song, Sergei Urazhdin, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Hayk Harutyunyan
Ultrathin gold films are attractive for plasmonic and metamaterial devices, thanks to their useful optical and optoelectronic properties. However, deposition of ultrathin continuous Au films of few nanometer thickness is challenging and generally requires

Broadband Resonator-Waveguide Coupling for Efficient Extraction of Octave Spanning Microcombs

October 1, 2019
Author(s)
Gregory Moille, Qing Li, Travis Briles, Su P. Yu, Tara E. Drake, Xiyuan Lu, Ashutosh Rao, Daron Westly, Scott Papp, Kartik Srinivasan
Frequency combs spanning over an octave have been successfully demonstrated on-chip in Kerr nonlinear microresonators, thanks to their large effective nonlinearity and ability to support a suitable dispersion profile. Efficient extraction of intracavity

Kerr Microresonator Soliton Frequency Combs at Cryogenic Temperatures

September 27, 2019
Author(s)
Gregory Moille, Xiyuan Lu, Ashutosh Rao, Qing Li, Daron Westly, Leonardo Ranzani, Scott Papp, Mohammad Soltani, Kartik Srinivasan
We present measurements of silicon nitride nonlinear microresonators and frequency comb generation at cryogenic temperatures as low as 7 K. A resulting two orders of magnitude reduction in the thermo-refractive coefficient relative to room-temperature

Near-infrared photonic phase-change properties of transition metal ditellurides.

September 23, 2019
Author(s)
Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Yifei Li, Akshay Singh, Rafael Jaramillo
We use the (Mo,W)Te2 system to explore the potential of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as phasechange materials for integrated photonics. We measure the complex optical constant of MoTe2 in both the 2H and 1T’ phases by spectroscopic ellipsometry

Multi-functional integrated photonics in the mid-infrared with suspended AlGaAs on silicon

September 18, 2019
Author(s)
Jeff Chiles, Nima Nader, Eric Stanton, Daniel Herman, Galan Moody, Biswarup Guha, Kartik Srinivasan, Scott Diddams, Ian Coddington, Nathan Newbury, Jeff Shainline, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin, Jiangang Zhu, Juliet Gopinath, Connor Fredrick
The microscale integration of mid- and longwave-infrared photonics could enable the development of fieldable and reliable chemical sensors. The choice of material platform immediately determines the strength and types of optical nonlinearities available

Experimental Variation of Magnification Calibration for Localization Microscopy

September 15, 2019
Author(s)
Craig R. Copeland, Bojan R. Ilic, Samuel M. Stavis
We study the experimental variation of a localization microscope due to temporal and thermal factors, enabling elucidation of the discrepancy between transillumination brightfield and epi-illumination fluorescence of an aperture array for magnification

Indistinguishable photons from deterministically integrated single quantum dots in heterogeneous GaAs/Si3N4 quantum photonic circuits

September 15, 2019
Author(s)
Peter Schnauber, Anshuman Singh, Johannes Schall, Suk I. Park, Jin Dong Song, Sven Rodt, Kartik Srinivasan, Stephan Reitzenstein, Marcelo I. Davanco
With in-situ electron beam lithography we deterministically integrate single InAs quantum dots into heterogeneous GaAs/Si3N4 waveguide circuits. Through microphotoluminescence spectroscopy, we show on-chip quantum dot emission of single, postselected

A photonic pH sensor based on photothermal spectroscopy

September 12, 2019
Author(s)
Zeeshan Ahmed, Nathan J. Castro, Matthew R. Hartings
Although the determination of pH is a standard laboratory measurement, new techniques capable of measuring pH are being developed to facilitate modern technological advances. Bio-industrial processing, tissue engineering, and intracellular environments

Global alignment of solution-based single-wall carbon nanotube films via machine-vision controlled filtration

September 11, 2019
Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Fagan, Angela R. Hight Walker, Adam J. Biacchi, Joshua S. Walker, William D. Rice, Thomas Searles, Valerie A. Kuehl
Over the past decade, substantial progress has been made in the chemical processing (chiral enrichment, length sorting, handedness selectivity, and filling substance) of single- wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Recently, it was shown that large

Indistinguishable photons from deterministically integrated single quantum dots in heterogeneous GaAs/Si3N4 quantum photonic circuits

August 30, 2019
Author(s)
Peter Schnauber, Anshuman Singh, Johannes Schall, Suk I. Park, Jin Dong Song, Sven Rodt, Kartik Srinivasan, Stephan Reitzenstein, Marcelo I. Davanco
Silicon photonics enables the integration of multi-functional quantum networks on a chip. Inclusion of quantum emitters acting as on-demand single-photon source or photon non-linearity is highly desirable to boost scalability and functionality. Towards

PHOTONIC THERMOMETRY: UPENDING 100 YEAR-OLD PARADIGM IN TEMPERATURE METROLOGY

August 1, 2019
Author(s)
Zeeshan Ahmed, Nikolai N. Klimov, Thomas P. Purdy, Tobias K. Herman, Kevin O. Douglass, Ryan P. Fitzgerald
For the past century, industrial temperature measurements have relied on resistance measurement of a thin metal wire or thin metal film whose resistance varies with temperature. Today’s resistance thermometers can routinely measure temperatures with

Efficient telecom-to-visible spectral translation through ultra-low power nonlinear nanophotonics

June 24, 2019
Author(s)
Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Qing Li, Daron Westly, Anshuman Singh, Ashutosh Rao, Su P. Yu, Travis Briles, Scott Papp, Kartik Srinivasan
The ability to spectrally translate lightwave signals in a compact, low-power platform is at the heart of the promise of nonlinear nanophotonic technologies. For example, a device to connect the telecommunications band with visible and short near-infrared
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