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The Hanbury Brown–Twiss (HBT) effect holds a pivotal place in intensity interferometry and gave a seminal contribution to the development of quantum optics. To observe such an effect, both good spectral and timing resolutions are necessary. Most often, the ...

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A compact platform to integrate emitters in a cavity-like support is to embed quantum dots (QDs) in a photonic crystal (PhC) structure, making them promising candidates for integrated quantum photonic circuits. The emission properties of QDs can be modifie ...

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A dephasing sweet spot with enhanced dipolar coupling

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Two-level systems (TLSs) are the basic units of quantum computers but face a trade-off between operation speed and coherence due to shared coupling paths. Here, we investigate a TLS given by a singlet-triplet (ST+) transition. We identify a magnetic-field ...

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Universal Characterization of Quantum Many-Body States through Local Information

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We propose a universal framework for classifying quantum states based on their scale-resolved correlation structure. Using the recently introduced information lattice, which provides an operational definition of the total amount of correlations at each sca ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025

Non-linear enhancement of ultrafast X-ray diffraction through transient resonances

Christoph Bostedt

Diffraction-before-destruction imaging with ultrashort X-ray pulses can visualize non-equilibrium processes, such as chemical reactions, with sub-femtosecond precision in the native environment. Here, a nanospecimen diffracts a single X-ray flash before it ...

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Harnessing Photon Indistinguishability in Quantum Extreme Learning Machines

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This study investigates Quantum Extreme Learning Machines (QELMs), which enhance classical Extreme Learning Machines (ELMs) by incorporating quantum features. ...

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Guided Nonlinear Optics for Information Processing

Demetri Psaltis

This special issue explores the dynamic and rapidly evolving field of optical computing, with a focus on guided nonlinear optics for information processing. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in this area [1], fuelled by groundbreaking experim ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2025

Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li, Terence Albert Emile Blésin, Chengli Wang, Junyin Zhang, Xi Wang, Chen Yang, Wil Kao, Alisa Davydova

Electro-optical photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) have demonstrated the vast capabilities of materials with a high Pockels coefficient1,2. They enable linear and high-speed modulators operating at complementary metal–oxi ...

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Wandering principal optical axes in van der Waals triclinic materials

Arslan Mazitov

Nature is abundant in material platforms with anisotropic permittivities arising from symmetry reduction that feature a variety of extraordinary optical effects. Principal optical axes are essential characteristics for these effects that define light-matte ...

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MEMS-based Tunable Metasurface for Reflective Display Applications

Dorian Giraud Herle

In an era where portable electronic devices are indispensable for a wide range of activities, the need for displays that provide both long-lasting battery life and excellent visibility in different lighting conditions is increasingly important. Emissive di ...

EPFL2024

The time-domain Cartesian multipole expansion of electromagnetic fields

Emanuela Radici, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Nicolas Mora Parra, Elias Per Joachim Le Boudec

Time-domain solutions of Maxwell’s equations in homogeneous and isotropic media are paramount to studying transient or broadband phenomena. However, analytical solutions are generally unavailable for practical applications, while numerical solutions are co ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

III-N blue-emitting epi-structures with high densities of dislocations: Fundamental mechanisms for efficiency improvement and applications

Pierre Christophe Lottigier

Since the dawn of humanity, human beings seeked to light their surroundings for their well-being, security and development. The efficiency of ancient lighting devices, e.g. oil lamps or candles, was in the order of 0.03-0.04% and jumped to 0.4-0.6% with th ...

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Advanced Silicon and SWIR Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes: Design, Simulation, and Characterization

Ekin Kizilkan

Low-level light detection with high spatial and timing accuracy is a growing area of interest by virtue of applications such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), biomedical imaging, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and quantum applications. Single-phot ...

EPFL2024

Hydrogen-induced tunable remanent polarization in a perovskite nickelate

Michele Kotiuga

Materials with field-tunable polarization are of broad interest to condensed matter sciences and solid-state device technologies. Here, using hydrogen (H) donor doping, we modify the room temperature metallic phase of a perovskite nickelate NdNiO3 into an ...

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Spin-Reorientation-Driven Linear Magnetoelectric Effect in Topological Antiferromagnet Cu3TeO6

Helmuth Berger

The search for new materials for energy -efficient electronic devices has gained unprecedented importance. Among the various classes of magnetic materials driving this search are antiferromagnets, magnetoelectrics, and systems with topological spin excitat ...

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Direct observations of X-rays produced by upward positive lightning

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X-rays have been observed in natural downward cloud-to-ground lightning for over 20 years and in rocket-triggered lightning for slightly less. In both cases, this energetic radiation has been detected during the stepped and dart leader phases of downward n ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

Hybrid lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride platform for mid-IR supercontinuum generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev

Integrated optics has shown itself very convenient for exploiting nonlinear processes as it results in high confinement factor, freedom of dispersion engineering and compactness. However, the choice of materials is crucial for the development of nonlinear ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2023

A chip-scale second-harmonic source via self-injection-locked all-optical poling

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

Second-harmonic generation allows for coherently bridging distant regions of the optical spectrum, with applications ranging from laser technology to self-referencing of frequency combs. However, accessing the nonlinear response of a medium typically requi ...

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Silicon nitride electric-field poled microresonator modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich, Anton Stroganov, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

Stoichiometric silicon nitride is a highly regarded platform for its favorable attributes, such as low propagation loss and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, making it a prominent choice for various linear and nonlinear ...

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