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The majority of microfabricated ion traps in use for quantum information processing are of the 2D 'surface-electrode' type or of the 3D 'wafer' type. Surface-electrode traps greatly simplify fabrication and hold the promise of allowing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 A. Quinn , M. Brown , T. J. Gardner , D. T. C. Allcock

Ion traps are used for a wide range of applications from metrology to quantum simulations and quantum information processing. Microfabricated chip-based 3D ion traps are scalable to store many ions for the realization of a large number of…

Artificial nanostructures with ultrafine and deep-subwavelength feature sizes have emerged as a paradigm-shifting platform to advanced light field management, becoming a key building block for high-performance integrated optoelectronics and…

We demonstrate the back-end integration of broadband, high-NA GaN micro-lenses by micro-assembly onto non-native semiconductor substrates. We developed a highly parallel micro-fabrication process flow to suspend micron scale plano-convex…

Consumer-level multi-material 3D printing with conductive thermoplastics enables fabrication of interactive elements for bespoke tangible devices. However, large feature sizes, high resistance materials, and limitations of printable control…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Oliver Child , Ollie Hanton , Jack Dawson , Steve Hodges , Mike Fraser

We present a photonic coupler that exhibits effectively wavelength-agnostic performance for ultra-broadband optical interfacing. By incorporating a dual-ellipsoidal geometry, the design facilitates quasi-free-space optical propagation. We…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Huiyu Huang , Zhitian Shi , Chunhui Yao , Richard Penty , Qixiang Cheng

Three-dimensional (3D) photonic integrated circuits (PIC) are emerging as an indispensable scheme for high density and multifunctional photonic systems. However, the wafer-scale scaling of PICs towards a 3D configuration is constrained by…

Inorganic scintillators are widely used for scientific, industrial and medical applications. The development of 3D printing with inorganic scintillators would allow fast creation of detector prototypes for registration of ionizing…

Precise control of particle positioning is desirable in many optical propulsion and sorting applications. Here, we develop an integrated platform for particle manipulation consisting of a combined optical nanofiber and optical tweezers…

Microelectronic integration is a key enabler for the ubiquitous deployment of devices in large volumes ranging from MEMS and imaging sensors to consumer electronics. Such integration has also been achieved in photonics, where compact…

Photonic integrated circuits that are manufactured with mature semiconductor technology hold great promise for realizing scalable quantum technology. Efficient interfaces between quantum emitters and nanophotonic devices are crucial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Jan Olthaus , Philip P. J. Schrinner , Doris E. Reiter , Carsten Schuck

Multicore optical fibers and ribbons based on fiber arrays allow for massively parallel transmission of signals via spatially separated channels, thereby offering attractive bandwidth scaling with linearly increasing technical effort.…

A structured optical fibre is drawn from a 3D-printed structured preform. Preforms containing a single ring of holes around the core are fabricated using filament made from a modified butadiene polymer. More broadly, 3D printers capable of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-08 Kevin Cook , John Canning , Sergio Leon-Saval , Zane Reid , Md Arafat Hossain , Jade-Edouard Comatti , Yanhua Luo , Gang-Ding Peng

Integrating nanophotonics and cold atoms has drawn increasing interest in recent years due to diverse applications in quantum information science and the exploration of quantum many-body physics. For example, dispersion-engineered photonic…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-04 X. Luan , J. -B. Béguin , A. P. Burgers , Z. Qin , S. -P. Yu , H. J. Kimble

Quantum information processing holds great promise for communicating and computing data efficiently. However, scaling current photonic implementation approaches to larger system size remains an outstanding challenge for realizing disruptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Carsten Schuck , Xiang Guo , Linran Fan , Xiao-Song Ma , Menno Poot , Hong X. Tang

Scaling-up optical quantum technologies requires to combine highly efficient multi-photon sources and integrated waveguide components. Here, we interface these scalable platforms: a quantum dot based multi-photon source and a reconfigurable…

User-friendly single-photon sources with high photon-extraction efficiency are crucial building blocks for photonic quantum applications. For many of these applications, such as long-distance quantum key distribution, the use of single-mode…

Photonic quantum gases explore the physics of open driven-dissipative quantum systems under ambient conditions and thus open access to thermodynamics and transport phenomena in quantum gases in the weakly interacting regime. Here we…

Measurements of microscale surface patterns are essential for process and quality control in industries across semiconductors, micro-machining, and biomedicines. However, the development of miniaturized and intelligent profiling systems…

We describe a macroscopic beam splitter for polar neutral molecules. A complex electrode structure is required for the beam splitter which would be very difficult to produce with traditional manufacturing methods. Instead, we make use of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Sean D. S. Gordon , Andreas Osterwalder