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Strong interactions between integrated microresonators and alkali atomic vapors: towards single-atom, single-photon operation

September 24, 2024
Author(s)
Roy Zekzer, Xiyuan Lu, Khoi Hoang, Rahul Shrestha, Sharoon Austin, Feng Zhou, Ashish Chanana, Glenn Holland, Daron Westly, Paul Lett, Alexey Gorshkov, Kartik Srinivasan
Cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED), the interaction of a two-level system with a high quality factor (Q) cavity, is a foundational building block in different architectures for quantum computation, communication, and metrology. The strong interaction

Traceable localization enables accurate integration of quantum emitters and photonic structures with high yield

March 18, 2024
Author(s)
Craig R. Copeland, Adam L. Pintar, Ronald G. Dixson, Ashish Chanana, Kartik Srinivasan, Daron Westly, Robert Ilic, Marcelo Davanco, Samuel M. Stavis
In a popular integration process for quantum information technologies, localization microscopy of quantum emitters guides lithographic placement of photonic structures. However, a complex coupling of microscopy and lithography errors degrades registration

Scalable and robust beam shaping using apodized fish-bone grating couplers

November 20, 2023
Author(s)
Chad Ropp, Dhriti Maurya, Alexander Yulaev, Daron Westly, Gregory Simelgor, Vladimir Aksyuk
Efficient power coupling between guided and free-space optical modes requires precision spatial mode matching with apodized Bragg gratings. Yet, grating apodizations are often limited by the minimum feature size realizable by the fabrication approach

Integrating planar photonics for multi-beam generation and atomic clock packaging on chip

April 3, 2023
Author(s)
Chad Ropp, Wenqi Zhu, Alexander Yulaev, Daron Westly, Gregory Simelgor, Akash Rakholia, William Lunden, Dan Sheredy, Martin Boyd, Scott Papp, Amit Agrawal, Vladimir Aksyuk
The commercialization of atomic technologies requires replacing laboratory-scale laser setups with compact and manufacturable optical platforms. Complex arrangements of free-space beams can be generated on chip through a combination of integrated photonics

Exceptional points in lossy media lead to deep polynomial wave penetration with spatially uniform power loss

April 21, 2022
Author(s)
Alexander Yulaev, Sangsik Kim, Qing Li, Daron Westly, Brian Roxworthy, Kartik Srinivasan, Vladimir Aksyuk
Waves entering a spatially uniform lossy medium typically undergo exponential decay, arising from either the energy loss of the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer transmission law or the evanescent penetration during reflection. Recently, exceptional point singularities

Interfacing Photonics to Free-Space via Large-area Inverse-designed Diffraction Elements and Metasurfaces

June 6, 2021
Author(s)
Alexander Yulaev, Wenqi Zhu, Chad Ropp, Daron Westly, Gregory Simelgor, Cheng Zhang, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Vladimir Aksyuk
Large-area inverse-designed photonic gratings and optical metasurfaces directly couple waveguides to wide free-space modes with custom wavefronts and polarizations in the visible and near-infrared. Design, modeling methods and experimental results are

Towards integrated photonic interposers for processing octave-spanning microresonator frequency combs

May 26, 2021
Author(s)
Ashutosh Rao, Gregory Moille, Xiyuan Lu, Daron Westly, Davide Sacchetto, Michael Geiselmann, Michael Zervas, Scott Papp, John E. Bowers, Kartik Srinivasan
Microcombs - optical frequency combs generated in microresonators - have advanced tremendously in the last decade, and are advantageous for applications in frequency metrology, navigation, spectroscopy, telecommunications, and microwave photonics

Meta-grating outcouplers for optimized beam shaping in the visible

May 10, 2021
Author(s)
Chad Ropp, Alexander Yulaev, Daron Westly, Gregory Simelgor, Vladimir Aksyuk
Accurate coupling between optical modes at the interface between photonic chips and free space is required for the development of many on-chip devices. This control is critical in quantum technologies where large-diameter beams with designed mode profiles

Magneto-optical trapping using planar optics

January 29, 2021
Author(s)
William McGehee, Wenqi Zhu, Daniel Barker, Daron Westly, Alexander Yulaev, Nikolai Klimov, Amit Agrawal, Stephen Eckel, Vladimir Aksyuk, Jabez J. McClelland
Laser-cooled atoms are a key component of many calibration-free measurement platforms— including clocks, gyroscopes, and gravimeters—and are a promising technology for quantum networking and quantum computing. The optics and vacuum hardware required to

Automated on-axis direct laser writing of coupling elements for photonic chips

December 21, 2020
Author(s)
Edgar Perez, Gregory Moille, Xiyuan Lu, Daron Westly, Kartik Srinivasan
Direct laser writing (DLW) has recently been used to create versatile micro-optic structures that facilitate photonic-chip coupling, like free-form lenses, free-form mirrors, and photonic wirebonds. However, at the edges of photonic chips, the top-down/off

Efficient photoinduced second-harmonic generation in silicon nitride photonics

November 2, 2020
Author(s)
Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Ashutosh Rao, Daron Westly, Kartik Srinivasan
Silicon photonics lacks a second-order nonlinear optical (chi(2)) response in general because the typical constituent materials are centro-symmetric and lack inversion symmetry, which prohibits chi(2) nonlinear processes such as second harmonic generation

Milliwatt-threshold visible-telecom optical parametric oscillation using silicon nanophotonics

December 20, 2019
Author(s)
Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Anshuman Singh, Qing Li, Daron Westly, Ashutosh Rao, Su P. Yu, Travis Briles, Scott Papp, Kartik Srinivasan
The on-chip creation of coherent light at visible wavelengths is of interest to many applications in spectroscopy, sensing, and metrology. Towards that goal, here we propose and demonstrate the first on-chip visible-telecom optical parameteric oscillator

Broadband Resonator-Waveguide Coupling for Efficient Extraction of Octave Spanning Microcombs

October 1, 2019
Author(s)
Gregory Moille, Qing Li, Travis Briles, Su P. Yu, Tara E. Drake, Xiyuan Lu, Ashutosh Rao, Daron Westly, Scott Papp, Kartik Srinivasan
Frequency combs spanning over an octave have been successfully demonstrated on-chip in Kerr nonlinear microresonators, thanks to their large effective nonlinearity and ability to support a suitable dispersion profile. Efficient extraction of intracavity

Kerr Microresonator Soliton Frequency Combs at Cryogenic Temperatures

September 27, 2019
Author(s)
Gregory Moille, Xiyuan Lu, Ashutosh Rao, Qing Li, Daron Westly, Leonardo Ranzani, Scott Papp, Mohammad Soltani, Kartik Srinivasan
We present measurements of silicon nitride nonlinear microresonators and frequency comb generation at cryogenic temperatures as low as 7 K. A resulting two orders of magnitude reduction in the thermo-refractive coefficient relative to room-temperature

Terahertz-Rate Kerr-Microresonator Optical Clockwork

August 12, 2019
Author(s)
Tara E. Drake, Travis Briles, Daryl T. Spencer II, Jordan R. Stone, David R. Carlson, Daniel D. Hickstein, Qing Li, Daron A. Westly, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp
Kerr microresonators generate interesting and useful fundamental states of electromagnetic radiation through nonlinear interactions of continuous-wave (CW) laser light. When implemented with photonic-integration techniques, functional devices with low