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Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are photon-counting detectors with great potential to improve the sensitivity of optical receivers. Recent studies of SiPMs in communication focus on the speed rather than the power consumption of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Yangchun Li , Danial Chitnis

Si-based photodetectors satisfy the criteria of low-cost and environmental-friendly, and can enable the development of on-chip complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible photonic systems. However, extending their…

This paper introduces a thermal infrared detector utilizing a nano-optomechanical silicon nitride (SiN) resonator, equipped with a free-space impedance-matched (FSIM) absorber composed of a platinum (Pt) thin film, offering a broadband…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-12 Paolo Martini , Stefan Emminger , Kostas Kanellopulos , Niklas Luhmann , Markus Piller , Robert Greyson West , Silvan Schmid

Graphene integrated photonics provides several advantages over conventional Si photonics. Single layer graphene (SLG) enables fast, broadband, and energy-efficient electro-optic modulators, optical switches and photodetectors (GPDs), and is…

The application of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) technology for weak-light detection at a single photon level has expanded thanks to its better photon detection efficiency in comparison to a conventional photomultiplier tube (PMT). SiPMs…

The study proposes an ultra-thin back side illuminated (BSI) and top-illuminated, Ge on Si photodetector (PD), for 1 to 1.4 microns wavelength range. The Ge thickness of 350 nm allows us to achieve high-speed performance at >60 GHz, while…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Ekaterina Ponizovskaya Devine , Toshishige Yamada , Shih-Yuan Wang , M Saif Islam

Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM) have been replacing traditional photomultiplier tubes in most light sensing applications. However, when large detection surface coverage is needed, photomultipliers (PMTs) are still the preferred choice. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-13 Luca Giangrande , Matthieu Heller , Yannick Favre , Teresa Montaruli

Silicon nitride (SiN) is emerging as a competitive platform for CMOS-compatible integrated photonics. However, active devices such as modulators are scarce and still lack in performance. Ideally, such a modulator should have a high…

A study of 3D pixel sensors of cell size 50 {\mu}m x 50 {\mu}m fabricated at IMB-CNM using double-sided n-on-p 3D technology is presented. Sensors were bump-bonded to the ROC4SENS readout chip. For the first time in such a small-pitch…

We demonstrate photonic devices based on standard 3C SiC epitaxially grown on silicon. We achieve high optical confinement by taking advantage of the high stiffness of SiC and undercutting the underlying silicon substrate. We demonstrate a…

A critical challenge for the integration of the optoelectronics is that photodetectors have relatively poor sensitivities at the nanometer scale. It is generally believed that a large electrodes spacing in photodetectors is required to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Yufei Cao , Kaiming Cai , Pingan Hu , Lixia Zhao , Tengfei Yan , Xinhui Zhang , Xiaoguang Wu , Kaiyou Wang , Houzhi Zheng

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising platform for scalable quantum technologies owing to its well-established, wafer-scale industrial processing. SiC also hosts a variety of optically active color centres including the nitrogen vacancy…

High quality integrated diamond photonic devices have previously been demonstrated in applications from non-linear photonics to on-chip quantum optics. However, the small sample sizes of single crystal material available, and the difficulty…

The photon trapping nano-structures help to enhance quantum efficiency and reduce reflection for MSM photodetector that allows fast Si photodetectors at wavelength 800-950nm. The nanostructure consist of micro holes reduces reflection and…

We describe the design and fabrication of a scalable atom-light photonic interface based on a silicon nitride microring resonator on a transparent silicon dioxide-nitride multi-layer membrane. This new photonic platform is fully compatible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Tzu-Han Chang , Brian Fields , May E. Kim , Chen-Lung Hung

In this work, we demonstrate an integrated platform comprising a refractive index (RI) sensor based on Photonic Molecule (PM) that effectively mitigates the influence of environmental perturbations using a differential measurement scheme…

This article presents the development of a cost-effective and efficient electronic module for silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). The electronic module combines essential functionalities, such as a high voltage power supply, a preamplifier,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-07 A. Sadigov , S. Nuruyev , R. Akbarov , D. B. Berikov , A. Madadzada , A. Mammadli

An integrated photonic platform is proposed for strong interactions between atomic beams and annealing-free high-quality-factor (Q) microresonators. We fabricated a thin-film, air-clad SiN microresonator with a loaded Q of $1.55\times10^6$…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-05 Ali Eshaghian Dorche , Bochao Wei , Chandra Raman , Ali Adibi

Fast measurements of quantum devices is important in areas such as quantum sensing, quantum computing and nanodevice quality analysis. Here, we develop a superconductor-semiconductor multi-module microwave assembly to demonstrate charge…

The development of versatile and novel material platforms for integrated photonics is of prime importance in the perspective of future applications of photonic integrated circuits for quantum information and sensing. Here we present a…