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Electro-optic modulators are fundamental components in atomic physics experiments, including trapped-ion systems used in precision metrology and quantum computing. To enable scalable photonic integration, we design and analyze an integrated…

Quantum technologies, such as quantum communication, sensing and imaging, need a platform which is flexible, miniaturizable and works at room temperature. Integrated photonics is a promising and fast-developing platform. This requires to…

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Manipulation of qudits in optical tables is a difficult and nonscalable task. The use of integrated optical circuits opens new possibilities for the generation, manipulation, and characterization of high dimensional states besides the ease…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 W. R. Cardoso , D. F. Barros , M. R. Barros , S. Pádua

High-speed signal processing is essential for maximizing data throughput in emerging communication applications, like multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and radio-frequency (RF) interference cancellation. However, as these…

Electro-optic modulation, the imprinting of a radio-frequency (RF) waveform on an optical carrier, is one of the most important photonics functions, being crucial for high-bandwidth signal generation, optical switching, waveform shaping,…

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are crucial for advancing optical communications, promising substantial gains in data transmission speed, bandwidth, and energy efficiency compared to conventional electronics. Telecom-wavelength…

Solutions for scalable, high-performance optical control are important for the development of scaled atom-based quantum technologies. Modulation of many individual optical beams is central to the application of arbitrary gate and control…

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Growing application space in optical communications, computing, and sensing continues to drive the need for high-performance integrated photonic components. Designing these on-chip systems with complex and application-specific functionality…

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This paper reports on the design, fabrication, and demonstration of a silicon photonics based heterodyne interferometric imaging system. The photonic integrated circuit (PIC) can perform one-dimensional spectroscopy for unique input…

High bandwidth, low voltage electro-optic modulators with high optical power handling capability are important for improving the performance of analog optical communications and RF photonic links. Here we designed and fabricated a thin-film…

Photon counting measurements are analyzed for obtaining a classical phase parameter in linear Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI), by the use of phase estimation theories. The detailed analysis is made for four cases: a) Coherent states…

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We challenge the current thinking and approach to the design of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for applications in communications, quantum information and sensing. The standard PICs are based on directional couplers, that provide a…

Microwave photonics uses light to carry and process microwave signals over a photonic link. However, light can instead be used as a stimulus to microwave devices that directly control microwave signals. Such optically controlled amplitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-15 Cheng-Yi Fang , Hung-Hsi Lin , Mehdi Alouini , Yeshaiahu Fainman , Abdelkrim El Amili

Light inherently consists of multiple dimensions beyond intensity, including spectrum, polarization, etc. The coupling among these high-dimensional optical features provides a compressive characterization of intrinsic material properties.…

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The integration of second-order optical nonlinearities into scalable photonic platforms remains a key challenge due to their large sensitivity to fabrication variations. Here, we present a scalable quadratic nonlinear platform that…

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