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We introduce the prodiabatic elimination, a powerful approximation technique that systematically extends the adiabatic elimination of fast degrees of freedom in light-matter coupled systems. Through a controlled expansion of operators, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jan Neuser , Marcelo Janovitch , Matteo Brunelli , Patrick P. Potts

The growing complexity of integrated photonics necessitates compact, low-power devices that transcend traditional, material-centric design approaches. In this study, we harness non-Hermitian physics to uncover novel properties of coupled…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-30 P. Chang , S. Ramezanpour , A. Helmy

We delineate the four principal surface plasmon polariton coupling and interaction mechanisms in subwavelength gratings, and demonstrate their significant roles in shaping the optical response of plasmonic gratings. Within the framework of…

We theoretically investigate light propagation in two periodically modulated nonlinear waveguides with certain propagation constant detuning between two guides. By slowly varying the amplitude of modulation, we can steer the light to the…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-21 Baiyuan Yang , Xiaobing Luo , Xiaoguang Yu

The intriguing analogy between quantum physics and optics has inspired the design of unconventional integrated photonics devices. In this paper, we numerically demonstrate a broadband integrated polarization beam splitter (PBS) by…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-25 Guang Yang , Alexander V. Sergienko , Abdoulaye Ndao

High efficiency and a compact footprint are desired properties for electro-optic modulators. In this paper, we propose, theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate a recirculating phase modulator, which increases the modulation…

We investigate plasmonic modulators with a gain material to be implemented as ultra-compact and ultra-fast active nanodevices in photonic integrated circuits. We analyze metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) waveguides with InGaAsP-based active…

Wafer-level testing is an important step for process and quality control of electronic chips in integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing which occurs before packaging. The process of wafer probing in its conventional contacting schemes,…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-29 Maryam Sadat Amiri Naeini , Pierre Berini

Surface plasmon polaritons can substantially reduce the sizes of optical devices, since they can concentrate light to (sub)wavelength scales. However, (sub)wavelength-scale electro-optic plasmonic switches or modulators with high…

In this article we use the method of shortcuts to adiabaticity to design a photonic lattice (array of waveguides) which can drive the input light to a controlled location at the output. The output position in the array is determined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Dionisis Stefanatos

Plasmonic waveguides based on 2D materials, which enable the formations of guided modes confined around few-layered material, are promising plasmonic platforms for the miniaturization of photonic devices. Nonetheless, such waveguides…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-16 Po-Han Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

Electrooptic modulation performs the conversion between the electrical and optical domain with applications in data communication for optical interconnects, but also for novel optical compute algorithms such as providing nonlinearity at the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Volker J. Sorger , Rubab Amin , Jacob B. Khurgin , Zhizhen Ma , Hamed Dalir , Sikandar Khan

Optical modulators can be made nowadays with high modulation speed, broad bandwidth, while being compact, owing to the recent advance in material science and microfabrication technology. However, these optical modulators usually work for…

Electro-optic signal modulation provides a key functionality in modern technology and information networks. Photonic integration has enabled not only miniaturizing photonic components, but also provided performance improvements due to…

Adiabatic techniques are well known tools in multi-level electron systems to transfer population between different states with high fidelity. Recently it has been realised that these ideas can also be used in ultra-cold atom systems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. O'Sullivan , P. Morrissey , T. Morgan , Th. Busch

We present a new approach to long range coupling based on a combination of adiabatic passage and lateral leakage in thin shallow ridge waveguides on a silicon photonic platform. The approach enables transport of light between two isolated…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. P. Hope , T. G. Nguyen , A. D. Greentree , A. Mitchell

Spatial adiabatic passage represents a new way to design integrated photonic devices. In conventional adiabatic passage designs require smoothly varying waveguide separations. Here we show modelling of adiabatic passage devices where the…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 Jesse A. Vaitkus , M. J. Steel , Andrew D. Greentree

Adiabatic elimination is a perturbative model reduction technique based on timescale separation and often used to simplify the description of composite quantum systems. We here analyze a quantum experiment where the perturbative expansion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Alain Sarlette , Pierre Rouchon , Antoine Essig , Quentin Ficheux , Benjamin Huard

Waveguide-based interferometric circuits are widely employed in optical communications, sensing and computing applications. In particular, glass-based devices are appealing due to the transparency and bio-compatibility of this substrate, or…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-28 Roberto Memeo , Andrea Crespi , Roberto Osellame

This work aims to design a CMOS compatible, low-electrical power consumption modulator assisted by plasmons. For compactness and reduction of the electrical power consumption, electro-absorption based on the Franz-Keldysh effect in…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Nicolás Abadía