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A silicon light source at communication wavelength is the bottleneck for developing monolithically integrated silicon photonics. Doping silicon with erbium ions was believed to be one of the most promising approaches but suffers from the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Huimin Wen , Jiajing He , Jin Hong , Fangyu Yue , Yaping Dan

The implementation of quantum networks involving quantum memories and photonic channels without the need for cryogenics would be a major technological breakthrough. Nitrogen-vacancy centers have excellent spin properties even at room…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Roohollah Ghobadi , Stephen Wein , Hamidreza Kaviani , Paul Barclay , Christoph Simon

Modulation of the grain boundary properties in thermoelectric materials that have thermally activated electrical conductivity is crucial in order to achieve high performance at low temperatures. In this work, we show directly that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-01 Jianyun Cao , Dursun Ekren , Yudong Peng , Feridoon Azough , Ian A. Kinloch , Robert Freer

On-chip photodetectors are essential components in optical communications as they convert light into an electrical signal. Photobolometers are type of photodetector that functions through a resistance change caused by electronic temperature…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-27 Jacek Gosciniak

Quantum computers have great potential to solve problems which are intractable on classical computers. However, quantum processors have not yet reached the required scale to run applications which outperform traditional computers. Leading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 M. J. Weaver , G. Arnold , H. Weaver , S. Gröblacher , R. Stockill

Optical bound states in the continuum (BIC) allow to totally prevent a photonic mode from radiating into free space along a given spatial direction. Polariton excitations derived from the strong radiation-matter interaction of a BIC with an…

One of the technical barriers impeding the wide applications of integrated photonic circuits is the lack of ultracompact, high speed, broadband electro-optical (EO) modulators, which up-convert electronic signals into high bit-rate photonic…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-23 Kaifeng Shi , Zhaolin Lu

A new cryogenic packaging methodology that is widely applicable to packaging any integrated photonics circuit for operation at both room temperature and cryogenic temperature is reported. The method requires only equipment and techniques…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-05 Donald Witt , Lukas Chrostowski , Jeff Young

Silicon carbide is a wide-bandgap semiconductor with an emerging CMOS technology platform and it is widely deployed in high power and harsh environment electronics. This material is also attracting interest for quantum technologies through…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Megan Powell , Euan Parry , Conor McGeough , Alexander Zotov , Alessandro Rossi

In-memory computing (IMC) is an emerging non-von Neumann paradigm that leverages the intrinsic physics of memory devices to perform computations directly within the memory array. Among the various candidates, phase-change memory (PCM) has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Davide G. F. Lombardo , Siddharth Gautam , Alberto Ferraris , Manuel Le Gallo , Abu Sebastian , Ghazi Sarwat Syed

Active photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in the visible spectrum are essential for on-chip applications, requiring low-loss waveguides with broad transparency and efficient, low-power phase modulation. Here, we demonstrate a compact,…

In-vacuo cryogenic environments are ideal for applications requiring both low temperatures and extremely low particle densities. This enables reaching long storage and coherence times for example in ion traps, essential requirements for…

Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer a unique opportunity to create a flexible platform, akin to electronic field programmable gate array (FPGA). These photonic PGAs can implement versatile functionalities for applications…

The design of large-scale electronic circuits that are entirely spintronics-driven requires a current source that is highly spin-polarised at and beyond room temperature, cheap to build, efficient at the nanoscale and straightforward to…

Optical isolators are essential for laser protection and robust signal routing, but the incorporation of the necessary magneto-optic (MO) materials in foundries has remained a challenge. As an alternative, several integrated non-magnetic…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-10 Gwan In Kim , Violet Workman , Oğulcan E. Örsel , Jieun Yim , Gaurav Bahl

Managing insertion losses, polarizations and device footprint is crucial in developing large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs). This paper presents a solution to these critical challenges by designing a semiconductor optical…

We present a photonics integrated circuit on silicon substrate withreconfigurable nonreciprocal transmission that exhibits a large isolationratio and low insertion loss. It also offers ability for all-optical function-alities, like optical…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-01 Ang Li , Wim Bogaerts

Integrated photonics has profoundly impacted a wide range of technologies underpinning modern society. The ability to fabricate a complete optical system on a chip offers unrivalled scalability, weight, cost and power efficiency. Over the…

Large-scale generation of quantum entanglement between individually controllable qubits is at the core of quantum computing, communications, and sensing. Modular architectures of remotely-connected quantum technologies have been proposed…

The exploration of memristors' behavior at cryogenic temperatures has become crucial due to the growing interest in quantum computing and cryogenic electronics. In this context, our study focuses on the characterization at cryogenic…