Programmable photonic circuits

W Bogaerts, D Pérez, J Capmany, DAB Miller, J Poon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The growing maturity of integrated photonic technology makes it possible to build
increasingly large and complex photonic circuits on the surface of a chip. Today, most of …

Ion-cut lithium niobate on insulator technology: Recent advances and perspectives

Y Jia, L Wang, F Chen - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3 or LN) is a well-known multifunctional crystal that has been widely
applied in various areas of photonics, electronics, and optoelectronics. In the past …

Hybrid integration methods for on-chip quantum photonics

JH Kim, S Aghaeimeibodi, J Carolan, D Englund… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The goal of integrated quantum photonics is to combine components for the generation,
manipulation, and detection of nonclassical light in a phase-stable and efficient platform …

Long low-loss-litium niobate on insulator waveguides with sub-nanometer surface roughness

R Wu, M Wang, J Xu, J Qi, W Chu, Z Fang, J Zhang… - Nanomaterials, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we develop a technique for realizing multi-centimeter-long lithium niobate on
insulator (LNOI) waveguides with a propagation loss as low as 0.027 dB/cm. Our technique …

Hybrid integration of solid-state quantum emitters on a silicon photonic chip

JH Kim, S Aghaeimeibodi, CJK Richardson… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Scalable quantum photonic systems require efficient single photon sources coupled to
integrated photonic devices. Solid-state quantum emitters can generate single photons with …

Photonic damascene process for low-loss, high-confinement silicon nitride waveguides

MHP Pfeiffer, C Herkommer, J Liu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on fabrication of high-confinement and low loss silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4)
waveguides using the photonic Damascene process. This process scheme represents a …

8× 8 reconfigurable quantum photonic processor based on silicon nitride waveguides

C Taballione, TAW Wolterink, J Lugani, A Eckstein… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The development of large-scale optical quantum information processing circuits ground on
the stability and reconfigurability enabled by integrated photonics. We demonstrate a …

[HTML][HTML] Demonstration of scalable microring weight bank control for large-scale photonic integrated circuits

C Huang, S Bilodeau, T Ferreira de Lima, AN Tait… - APL Photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Microring resonators (MRRs) are reconfigurable optical elements ubiquitous in photonic
integrated circuits. Owing to its high sensitivity, MRR control is very challenging, especially …

Principles, fundamentals, and applications of programmable integrated photonics

D Pérez, I Gasulla, PD Mahapatra… - Advances in Optics and …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Programmable integrated photonics is an emerging new paradigm that aims at designing
common integrated optical hardware resource configurations, capable of implementing an …

Epitaxial quantum dots: a semiconductor launchpad for photonic quantum technologies

X Zhou, L Zhai, J Liu - Photonics Insights, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Epitaxial quantum dots formed by III–V compound semiconductors are excellent sources of
non-classical photons, creating single photons and entangled multi-photon states on …