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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

Efficient photoinduced second-harmonic generation in silicon nitride photonics

November 2, 2020
Author(s)
Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Ashutosh Rao, Daron Westly, Kartik Srinivasan
Silicon photonics lacks a second-order nonlinear optical (chi(2)) response in general because the typical constituent materials are centro-symmetric and lack inversion symmetry, which prohibits chi(2) nonlinear processes such as second harmonic generation

Nonlinearity and ionization in Xe: Experiment-based calibration of a numerical model

October 12, 2020
Author(s)
Joseph Tolliver, Sina Zahedpour, Jared Wahlstrand, H M. Milchberg, Miroslav Kolesik
A model for the optical response of Xenon, including the nonlinear polarization and ionization rate, is calibrated with the help of space-and-time resolved measurements. Utilizing an idea of universal functional form for the response as a function of the

Time-Resolving Quantum Measurement Enables Energy-Efficient, Large-Alphabet Communication

September 21, 2020
Author(s)
Ivan Burenkov, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov
Information exchange requires a measurement of physical states. Because quantum measurements enable accuracy beyond the classical shot-noise limit, they are successfully used to develop measurement tools and applications. In particular, quantum-measurement

Calibration of free-space and fiber-coupled single-photon detectors

September 14, 2020
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Alan L. Migdall, Joshua C. Bienfang, John H. Lehman, Sae Woo Nam, Oliver T. Slattery, Jolene D. Splett, Igor Vayshenker, Chih-Ming Wang
We present our measurements of the detection efficiency of free-space and fiber-coupled single- photon detectors at wavelengths near 851 nm and 1533.6 nm. We investigate the spatial uniformity of one free-space-coupled silicon single-photon avalanche diode

Radiation Pressure Laser Power Meter for Industrial Laser Machining

September 10, 2020
Author(s)
Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Ivan Ryger, Natalia A. Azarova, Paul A. Williams, John Lehman
Demonstration and validation of a linear radiation pressure-based high-power laser power meter is presented. To date, this device is the most promising real-time, absolute power meter for laser material processing where power monitoring is crucial.
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