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We demonstrate the implementation of a fiber-integrated spectrograph utilizing chromatic group velocity dispersion (GVD) in a single mode fiber. By means of GVD we stretch an ultrafast pulse in time in order to spectrally resolve single…
Bright single photon emission from single quantum dots in suspended circular Bragg grating microcavities is demonstrated. This geometry has been designed to achieve efficient (> 50 %) single photon extraction into a near-Gaussian shaped…
A scalable source of single photons is a key constituent of an efficient quantum photonic architecture. To realize this, it is beneficial to have an ensemble of quantum emitters that can be collectively excited with high efficiency.…
Precise on-chip dispersion control is essential for advanced integrated photonic technologies, enabling applications ranging from high-speed communications and sensing to signal processing and biomedical imaging. However, existing on-chip…
Semiconductor quantum dots embedded in hybrid circular Bragg gratings are a promising platform for the efficient generation of nonclassical light. The scalable fabrication of multiple devices with similar performance is highly desirable for…
We have developed an integrated dual-band photonic filter (PF) utilizing equivalent chirped four-phase-shifted sidewall-sampled Bragg gratings (4PS-SBG) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. Using the reconstruction equivalent-chirp…
In this letter we present a new technique for pulse shaping. The desired pulse is shaped by two apodized chirped fiber Bragg gratings which dispersions are adjusted to be cancelled. This technique exploits the well-known property of…
A blazed chirped Bragg grating in a planar silica waveguide device was used to create an integrated diffractive element for a spectrometer. The grating diffracts light from a waveguide and creates a wavelength dependent focus in a manner…
In this work we report a novel technique for simultaneous high-speed and high-resolution interrogation of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. The method uses the wavelength-to-time mapping effect in a chromatic dispersive medium and a couple…
Single-photon sources are a fundamental resource in quantum optics. The indistinguishability and purity of photons emitted from different sources are crucial (necessary, essential) properties for many quantum applications to ensure…
We have developed a photonic filter featuring dual independently tunable passbands. Employing the reconstruction equivalent-chirp technique, we designed linearly chirped sampled Bragg gratings with two equivalent phase shifts positioned at…
We present a novel coding-based technique for remote monitoring of passive optical networks which exploits the wavelength-to-time mapping effect of broadband short pulses in a highly dispersive medium. In this scheme, each encoder consists…
We present a fiber-based source of narrowband heralded single photons in the telecoms C-band. Photon pairs were generated by spontaneous four-wave mixing in photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a germanium-doped region incorporated into its…
This article describes a simplified reconstruction algorithm for frequency resolved optical gating (FROG) measurements of highly (monotonically) chirped pulses. The FROG traces are calculated using the stationary phase approximation,…
Multimode fibers are widely explored for optical communication, imaging and sensing applications. The interference of fiber guided modes generates a speckle pattern, which has been used for high-precision spectroscopy, temperature, and…
We present a single-photon-sensitive spectrometer, based on a linear array of 512 single-photon avalanche diode detectors, with 0.04 nm spectral and 40 ps temporal resolutions. We employ a fast data-driven operation that allows direct…
Single-photon counters are single-pixel binary devices that click upon the absorption of a photon but obscure its spectral information, whereas resolving the colour of detected photons has been in critical demand for frontier astronomical…
Accurate measurement of the pulse duration of ultrashort, ultra-intense laser pulses at focus is essential for strong-field science. Most existing diagnostics, however, cannot allow direct in situ measurement in the focal region because of…
We present a simple and direct method for measuring laser chirp rate, i.e., group delay dispersion (GDD) of ultrashort laser pulses at power levels compatible with single-quantum-emitter excitation. Traditional pulse characterization…
Single-shot ultrafast spectroscopy based on the frequency encoding of transient absorbance kinetics (FDSS) is demonstrated. These kinetics are sampled spectrally using linearly chirped pulses derived from a Ti:sapphire laser. A variable…