7 research outputs found
Controlling all Degrees of Freedom of the Optical Coupling in Hybrid Quantum Photonics
Nanophotonic quantum devices can significantly boost light-matter interaction
which is important for applications such as quantum networks. Reaching a high
interaction strength between an optical transition of a spin system and a
single mode of light is an essential step which demands precise control over
all degrees of freedom of the optical coupling. While current devices have
reached a high accuracy of emitter positioning, the placement process remains
overall statistically, reducing the device fabrication yield. Furthermore, not
all degrees of freedom of the optical coupling can be controlled limiting the
device performance. Here, we develop a hybrid approach based on
negatively-charged silicon-vacancy center in nanodiamonds coupled to a mode of
a SiN-photonic crystal cavity, where all terms of the coupling strength
can be controlled individually. We use the frequency of coherent
Rabi-oscillations and line-broadening as a measure of the device performance.
This allows for iterative optimization of the position and the rotation of the
dipole with respect to individual, preselected modes of light. Therefore, our
work marks an important step for optimization of hybrid quantum photonics and
enables to align device simulations with real device performance.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
An electroluminescent and tunable cavity-enhanced carbon-nanotube-emitter in the telecom band
Emerging photonic information processing systems require chip-level integration of controllable nanoscale light sources at telecommunication wavelengths. Currently, substantial challenges remain in the dynamic control of the sources, the low-loss integration into a photonic environment, and in the site-selective placement at desired positions on a chip. Here, we overcome these challenges using heterogeneous integration of electroluminescent (EL), semiconducting carbon nanotubes (sCNTs) into hybrid two dimensional â three dimensional (2D-3D) photonic circuits. We demonstrate enhanced spectral line shaping of the EL sCNT emission. By back-gating the sCNT-nanoemitter we achieve full electrical dynamic control of the EL sCNT emission with high on-off ratio and strong enhancement in the telecommunication band. Using nanographene as a low-loss material to electrically contact sCNT emitters directly within a photonic crystal cavity enables highly efficient EL coupling without compromising the optical quality of the cavity. Our versatile approach paves the way for controllable integrated photonic circuits
Interlaboratory study on Sb2S3 interplay between structure, dielectric function, and morphous-to-crystalline phase change for photonics
Antimony sulfide, Sb2S3, is interesting as the phase-change material for applications requiring high transmission from the visible to telecom wavelengths, with its band gap tunable from 2.2 to 1.6 eV, depending on the amorphous and crystalline phase. Here we present results from an interlaboratory study on the interplay between the structural change and resulting optical contrast during the amorphous-to-crystalline transformation triggered both thermally and optically. By statistical analysis of Raman and ellipsometric spectroscopic data, we have identified two regimes of crystallization, namely 250_C % T < 300_C, resulting in Type-I spherulitic crystallization yielding an optical contrast Dn _ 0.4, and 300 % T < 350 _ C, yielding Type-II crystallization bended spherulitic structure with different dielectric function and optical contrast Dn _ 0.2 below 1.5 eV. Based on our findings, applications of on-chip reconfigurable nanophotonic phase modulators and of a reconfigurable high-refractive-index core/phase-change shell nanoantenna are designed and proposed.The authors acknowledge the support from the European Unionâs Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (No 899598 - PHEMTRONICS)
Purcell-enhanced emission from individual SiVâ center in nanodiamonds coupled to a Si3N4-based, photonic crystal cavity
Hybrid quantum photonics combines classical photonics with quantum emitters in a postprocessing step. It facilitates to link ideal quantum light sources to optimized photonic platforms. Optical cavities enable to harness the Purcell-effect boosting the device efficiency. Here, we postprocess a free-standing, crossed-waveguide photonic crystal cavity based on Si3N4 with SiVâ center in nanodiamonds. We develop a routine that optimizes the overlap with the cavity electric field utilizing atomic force microscope (AFM) nanomanipulation to attain control of spatial and dipole alignment. Temperature tuning further gives access to the spectral emitter-cavity overlap. After a few optimization cycles, we resolve the fine-structure of individual SiVâ centers and achieve a Purcell enhancement of more than 4 on individual optical transitions, meaning that four out of five spontaneously emitted photons are channeled into the photonic device. Our work opens up new avenues to construct efficient quantum photonic devices
Controlling All Degrees of Freedom of the Optical Coupling in Hybrid Quantum Photonics
Nanophotonic quantum
devices can significantly boost
lightâmatter
interaction, which is important for applications such as quantum networks.
Reaching a high interaction strength between an optical transition
of a spin system and a single mode of light is an essential step that
demands precise control over all degrees of freedom of the optical
coupling. While current devices have reached a high accuracy of emitter
positioning, the placement process remains overall statistically,
reducing the device fabrication yield. Furthermore, not all degrees
of freedom of the optical coupling can be controlled, limiting the
device performance. Here, we develop a hybrid approach based on negatively
charged silicon vacancy center in nanodiamonds coupled to a mode of
a Si3N4-photonic crystal cavity, where all terms
of the coupling strength can be controlled individually. We used the
frequency of coherent Rabi oscillations and line-broadening as a measure
of the device performance. This allows for iterative optimization
of the position and rotation of the dipole with respect to individual
preselected modes of light. Therefore, our work marks an important
step for optimization of hybrid quantum photonics and enables us to
align device simulations with real device performance
Narrow Line Width Quantum Emitters in an Electron-Beam-Shaped Polymer
Solid-state single photon sources (SPSs) with narrow line width play an important role in many leading quantum technologies. Within the wide range of SPSs studied to date, single fluorescent molecules hosted in organic crystals stand out as bright, photostable SPSs with a lifetime-limited optical resonance at cryogenic temperatures. Furthermore, recent results have demonstrated that photostability and narrow line widths are still observed from single molecules hosted in a nanocrystalline environment, which paves the way for their integration with photonic circuitry. Polymers offer a compatible matrix for embedding nanocrystals and provide a versatile yet low-cost approach for making nanophotonic structures on chip that guide light and enhance coupling to nanoscale emitters. Here, we present a deterministic nanostructuring technique based on electron-beam lithography for shaping polymers with embedded single molecules. Our approach provides a direct means of structuring the nanoscale environment of narrow line width emitters while preserving their emission properties.We would like to thank Josep Canet Ferrer and Vittoria
Finazzi. This project has received funding from the EraNET
Cofund Initiatives QuantERA under the European Unionâs
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant
agreement No. 731473 (Project acronyme: ORQUID). C.C.
acknowledges financial support by the ICFOstepstone - PhD
Programme for Early-Stage Researchers in Photonics, funded
by the Marie SkĆodowska-Curie Co-funding of regional,
national, and international programmes (GA665884) of the
European Commission. C.D. acknowledges financial support
by the European Unionâs Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme (ERC Grant No. StG637116). A.L.
and E.B. acknowledge âEnte cassa di risparmio di Firenzeâ for
financial support given for the acquisition of the TESCAN
GAIA3 electron microscope , and Regione Toscana for the
project FELIX (POR FESR 2014-2020, grant number no.
6455). We also acknowledge financial support from the
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), through the âSevero Ochoaâ Programme for Centres of
Excellence in R&D (SEV-2015-0522 and SEV-2015-0496),
support by FundacioÌ Cellex Barcelona, Generalitat de
Catalunya through the CERCA program. This work received
funding from the European Unionâs Horizon 2020 research
and innovation program Quantum Flagship (Grant No.
820378). Funded by the Agency for Management of University
and Research Grants (AGAUR) 2017 SGR 1656.Peer reviewe