Publications associées à Framework of Free-Electron Quantum Optics Using Photonic Integrated Circuits

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Topological Effects in Wave Scattering and Metamaterials

Advanced wave engineering demands robust, efficient, and new-degree-of-freedom manipulations in wave intrinsic properties like amplitude, phase, polarization, and even spatial structure. To tackle this, this thesis advances photonic wave manipulation by sy ...

EPFL2025

On the influence of the buffer layer on the optical quality of AlN-on-sapphire epilayers for photonic integrated devices

Nicolas Grandjean, Camille Sophie Brès, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Samantha Sbarra, Samuele Brunetta

In the last decade, aluminum nitride (AlN) has proven to be an attractive material for both linear and nonlinear integrated photonics, due to its large transparency window, its low propagation losses and the presence of both second- and third-order nonline ...

SPIE2025

Lagnet: Better Electron Density Prediction for Lcao-based Data and Drug-like Substances

Egor Rumiantsev

The electron density is an important object in quantum chemistry that is crucial for many downstream tasks in drug design. Recent deep learning approaches predict the electron density around a molecule from atom types and atom positions. Most of these meth ...

BMC2025

Multi-octave bandwidth supercontinuum generation in crystalline Aluminum Nitride-on-sapphire waveguides

Nicolas Grandjean, Camille Sophie Brès, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Samantha Sbarra, Samuele Brunetta

Applications such as optical clocks, gas spectroscopy, and optical coherent tomography stand to benefit significantly from the integration of on-chip supercontinuum sources. Materials exhibiting both second- and third-order nonlinearities are particularly ...

International Society for Optical Engineering2025

Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics

Guanhao Huang

Quantum optics studies how photons interact with other forms of matter, the understanding of which was crucial for the development of quantum mechanics as a whole. Starting from the photoelectric effect, the quantum property of light has led to the develop ...

EPFL2024

An Integrated Gallium Phosphide Optical Parametric Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Alberto Nardi

Optical parametric amplification is a promising alternative to traditional erbium-doped amplifiers, offering unidirectional, low-noise, and broadband amplification. Here we present an integrated continuous-traveling-wave parametric amplifier that surpasses ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

The quantum perfect fluid in 2D

Riccardo Rattazzi

We consider the field theory that defines a perfect incompressible 2D fluid. One distinctive property of this system is that the quadratic action for fluctuations around the ground state features neither mass nor gradient term. Quantum mechanically this po ...

2024

Magnon interactions in a moderately correlated Mott insulator

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ellen Fogh, Noore Elahi Shaik

Quantum fluctuations in low-dimensional systems and near quantum phase transitions have significant influences on material properties. Yet, it is difficult to experimentally gauge the strength and importance of quantum fluctuations. Here we provide a reson ...

Nature Research2024

Dendrimer-Based Coatings on a Photonic Crystal Surface for Ultra-Sensitive Small Molecule Detection

Serguei Sekatski

We propose and demonstrate dendrimer-based coatings for a sensitive biochip surface that enhance the high-performance sorption of small molecules (i.e., biomolecules with low molecular weights) and the sensitivity of a label-free, real-time photonic crysta ...

MDPI2023

Universality of loop corrected soft theorems in 4d

Biswajit Sahoo

In [1], logarithmic correction to subleading soft photon and soft graviton theorems have been derived in four spacetime dimensions from the ratio of IR-finite S-matrices. This has been achieved after factoring out IR-divergent components from the tradition ...

Springer Nature2023

Sub-kHz-Linewidth External-Cavity Laser (ECL) With Si3N4 Resonator Used as a Tunable Pump for a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu

Combining optical gain in direct-bandgap III-V materials with tunable optical feedback offered by advanced photonic integrated circuits is key to chip-scale external-cavity lasers (ECL), offering wideband tunability along with low optical linewidths. Exter ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Cavity-mediated electron-photon pairs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

Quantum information, communication, and sensing rely on the generation and control of quantum correlations in complementary degrees of freedom. Free electrons coupled to photonics promise novel hybrid quantum technologies, although single-particle correlat ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Compact Integrated Silicon Photonic Mems Power Coupler For Programmable Photonics

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Programmable photonics promise a plethora of optical functions while at the same time reducing the time and costs of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) development. One primary bottleneck for development of these systems is the difficulty in increasing comp ...

IEEE2022

Engineering and characterizing nonclassical states of light in quantum optical networks

Kilian Robert Seibold

The exploration of open quantum many-body systems -systems of microscopic size exhibiting quantum coherence and interacting with their surrounding- has emerged as a key research area over the last years. The recent advances in controlling and preserving qu ...

EPFL2022

Wigner Formulation of Thermal Transport in Solids

Nicola Marzari, Michele Simoncelli

Two different heat-transport mechanisms are discussed in solids. In crystals, heat carriers propagate and scatter particlelike as described by Peierls's formulation of the Boltzmann transport equation for phonon wave packets. In glasses, instead, carriers ...

American Physical Society2022

Integration of MEMS in Silicon Photonics

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...

EPFL2021

Solving the 2D SUSY Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model with conformal truncation

Matthew Thomas Walters

We use Lightcone Conformal Truncation to analyze the RG flow of the two-dimensional supersymmetric Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory, i.e. the theory of a real scalar superfield with a DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL Z(2)-symmetric cubic superpotential, aka the 2d Wess-Zumi ...

Springer Nature2021

MEMS for Photonic Integrated Circuits

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

The field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is reviewed. This field leverages mechanics at the nanometer to micrometer scale to improve existing components and introduce novel functionalities in PICs. This rev ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Broadband quasi-phase-matching in dispersion-engineered all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich

Quasi-phase-matching (QPM) has become one of the most common approaches for increasing the efficiency of nonlinear three-wave mixing processes in integrated photonic circuits. Here, we provide a study of dispersion engineering of QPM second-harmonic (SH) g ...

2020

Polariton relaxation and polariton nonlinearities in nonresonantly cw-pumped III-nitride slab waveguides

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Gordon Jens Callsen, Joachim Armand Simonne Ciers

Polariton lasers are mostly based on planar cavities. Here we focus on an alternative configuration with slab waveguide modes strongly coupled to excitons confined in GaN/AlGaN quantum wells. We study experimentally and theoretically polariton relaxation a ...

2020