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Broadband generation of perfect Poincare beams via dielectric spin-multiplexed metasurface

April 13, 2021
Author(s)
Mingze Liu, Pengcheng Huo, Wenqi Zhu, Cheng Zhang, Si Zhang, Maowen Song, Song Zhang, Qianwei Zhou, Lu Chen, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Yanqing Lu, Ting Xu
Poincaré beam, which describes the space-variant polarization of a light beam carrying spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM), plays an important role in various optical applications. Since the radius of a Poincaré beam depends on

Inverse-designed multi-dimensional silicon photonic transmitters

March 25, 2021
Author(s)
Travis Briles, Jordan Stone, Scott Papp
Modern microelectronic processors have migrated towards parallel computing architectures with many-core processors. However, such expansion comes with diminishing returns exacted by the high cost of data movement between individual processors. The use of

Fully phase-stabilized 1 GHz turnkey frequency comb at 1.5 mm

March 15, 2021
Author(s)
Daniel Lesko, Alexander Lind, Nazanin Hoghooghi, Abijith S. Kowligy, Henry R. Timmers, Pooja Sekhar, Benjamin Rudin, Florian Emaury, Gregory B. Rieker, Scott Diddams
Low noise and high repetition rate optical frequency combs have been desirable for many applications from timekeeping to precision spectroscopy. With higher power per comb mode, gigahertz repetition rates enable rapid spectroscopic sensing in a dual-comb

Optimizing optical precision of an image using curved focal plane technology

March 14, 2021
Author(s)
Sujay Swain, Sudhish Swain, Dianne L. Poster, Michael T. Postek
The quality of an image captured by the human eye is typically better than that obtained relative to artificial images created by cameras or telescopes. This is because humans have curved retinas. In contrast, conventional imaging cameras have at sensors

Broadband thermomechanically limited sensing with an optomechanical accelerometer

March 9, 2021
Author(s)
Feng Zhou, Yiliang Bao, Ramgopal Madugani, David Long, Jason J. Gorman, Thomas W. LeBrun
Cavity optomechanics has enabled precision measurements with unprecedented levels of sensitivity, including the detection of attonewton forces, nanoparticles, magnetic fields, and gravitational waves. In most cases, detection is performed in a narrow

Comparative study of multiwall carbon nanotube nanocomposites by Raman, SEM, and XPS measurement techniques

March 3, 2021
Author(s)
Yanmei Piao, Vipin Tondare, Chelsea S. Davis, Justin Gorham, Elijah Petersen, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Keana Scott, Andras Vladar, Angela R. Hight Walker
Substantial ongoing research efforts are investigating the production of novel composite material enhanced by the incorporation of nanomaterial fillers such as multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). While the addition of MWCNTs have been shown to improve the

Characterization of waveguide-integrated single-photon detectors using integratedphotonic structures

February 18, 2021
Author(s)
Sonia M. Buckley, Alexander N. Tait, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Adam N. McCaughan, Saeed Khan, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Jeffrey M. Shainline
We show several techniques for using integrated-photonic waveguide structures to simultaneously characterize multiple waveguide-integrated superconducting-nanowire detectors with a single fiber input. We demonstrate structures for direct comparison of

Spectropolarimetry of primitive phototrophs as global surface biosignatures

February 4, 2021
Author(s)
William Sparks, M. N. Parenteau, Robert E. Blankenship, Thomas Germer, C.H. L. Patty, Kimberly M. Bott, Charles M. Telesco, Victoria S. Meadows
Photosynthesis is an ancient metabolic process that began on the early Earth, offering plentiful energy to organisms that utilize it, to the extent that they can achieve global significance. The potential exists for similar processes to operate on

Electro-optic frequency combs for rapid interrogation in cavity optomechanics

January 29, 2021
Author(s)
David Long, Benjamin J. Reschovsky, Feng Zhou, Yiliang Bao, Thomas W. LeBrun, Jason Gorman
Electro-optic frequency combs were employed to rapidly interrogate an optomechanical sensor, demonstrating spectral resolution substantially exceeding that possible with a mode-locked frequency comb. Frequency combs were generated using an integrated

Quantum dot lasers - history and future prospects

January 29, 2021
Author(s)
Richard Mirin, John E. Bowers, Justin Norman
We describe the initial efforts to use molecular beam epitaxy to grow InAs quantum dots on GaAs via the Stranski-Krastanow transition. We then discuss the initial efforts to use these quantum dots to demonstrate quantum dot lasers. We discuss the

Two-beam coupling by a hot electron nonlinearity

January 15, 2021
Author(s)
Jagannath Paul, Mario Miscuglio, Yaliang Gui, Volker Sorger, Jared Wahlstrand
Transparent conductive oxides such as indium tin oxide (ITO) have attracted much recent interest for their enhanced optical nonlinearity near the epsilon near zero wavelength. The nonlinearity of these materials is caused by laser heating of electrons

Coherent optical processes with an all-optical atomic simulator

January 4, 2021
Author(s)
Ivan Burenkov, Sergey Polyakov, Olga Tikhonova, Irina Novikova
We show how novel photonic devices such as broadband quantum memory and efficient quantum frequency transduction can be implemented using three-wave mixing processes in a 1D array of nonlinear waveguides evanescently coupled to nearest neighbors. We do

Independent Amplitude Control of Arbitrary Orthogonal States of Polarization via Dielectric Metasurfaces

December 23, 2020
Author(s)
Qingbin Fan, Mingze Liu, Cheng Zhang, Wenqi Zhu, Yilin Wang, Peicheng Lin, Feng Yan, Lu Chen, Henri Lezec, Yanqing Lu, Amit Agrawal, Ting Xu
Exquisite polarization control using optical metasurfaces has attracted considerable attention thanks to their ability to manipulate multichannel independent wavefronts with subwavelength resolution. Here we present a new class of metasurface polarization

Feedback Induced Magnetic Phases in Binary Bose-Einstein Condensates

December 7, 2020
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Shangjie Guo, Hilary M. Hurst
Weak measurement in tandem with real-time feedback control is a new route toward engineering novel non-equilibrium quantum matter. Here we develop a theoretical toolbox for quantum feedback control of multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) using

Improved coupled-mode theory for high-index-contrast photonic platforms

December 4, 2020
Author(s)
Qing Li, Gregory Moille, Hossein Taheri, Ali Adibi, Kartik Srinivasan
Coupled-mode theory has been widely used in optics and photonics design. Despite its popularity, several different formulations of coupled-mode theory exist in the literature and their applicable range is not entirely clear, in particular when it comes to

Experimental demonstration of the near-quantum optimal receiver

November 19, 2020
Author(s)
Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Ivan Burenkov, FNU Nur Fajar Rizqi Annafianto, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov
We implement the cyclic quantum receiver based on the theoretical proposal of Roy Bondurant and demonstrate experimentally below the shot-noise limit (SNL) discrimination of quadrature phase-shift keying signals (PSK). We also experimentally test the
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