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Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (SB/STI)
LaboratoryRelated publications (1,000)
Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics
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 ...
EPFL2024A Cavity-Microscope for Quantum Simulations with Locally-Controllable All-to-All Interactions
This thesis presents the development, construction, and benchmark of an experimental platform that combines cold fermionic 6Li atoms with locally controllable light-matter interactions. To enable local control, a new device, the cavity-microscope, was crea ...
EPFL2024Electron-beam based nanoscale quantum controls
Advancing quantum technologies depends on the precise control of individual quantum systems, the so-called qubits, and the exploitation of their quantum properties. Nowadays, expanding the number of qubits to be entangled is at the core of the developments ...
EPFL2024Investigation of room-temperature single-photon emitters in GaN-based materials and GaN/AlN quantum dots
Over the past decade, quantum photonics platforms aiming at harnessing the fundamental properties of single particles, such as quantum superposition and quantum entanglement, have flourished. In this context, single-photon emitters capable of operating at ...
EPFL2024Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing
Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li, Alisa Davydova, Junyin Zhang, Yang Chen, Xi Wang, Kai Huang
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 ...
2024Generation of entangled photon pairs from a silicon bichromatic photonic crystal cavity
Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi, Thanavorn Poempool
Integrated quantum photonics leverages the on-chip generation of nonclassical states of light to realize key functionalities of quantum devices. Typically, the generation of such nonclassical states relies on whispering gallery mode resonators, such as int ...
Melville2024Ultra-high quantum coherent and scalable superconducting circuit optomechanics, from topological lattices to quantum storage
Mechanical oscillators can exhibit modes with ultra-low energy dissipation and compact form factors due to the slow velocity of acoustic waves, and are already used in applications ranging from timing to wireless filters. Over the past decade, novel ways i ...
EPFL2024Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization
Photonics integrated circuits are a promising solution for the growing demands of data transmission and future system-on-chip technologies. Within this context, nonlinear optical interactions offer unique opportunities for all-optical processing, sampling, ...
EPFL2024Photoinduced Second-Order Nonlinearities in Centrosymmetric Media
The interaction of light and matter enables nonlinear frequency conversion and the creation of coherent currents. The optical control of electric currents is of fundamental relevance and prominent research focus in the last decades. These photocurrents ena ...
EPFL2024Room-temperature quantum optomechanics using an ultralow noise cavity
Tobias Kippenberg, Guanhao Huang, Alberto Beccari, Nils Johan Engelsen
At room temperature, mechanical motion driven by the quantum backaction of light has been observed only in pioneering experiments in which an optical restoring force controls the oscillator stiffness1,2. For solid-state mechanical resonators in which oscil ...
Berlin2024