Unconventional photon blockade

H Flayac, V Savona - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We review the unconventional photon blockade mechanism. This quantum effect remarkably
enables a strongly sub-Poissonian light statistics, even from a system characterized by a …

Spontaneous mirror-symmetry breaking in coupled photonic-crystal nanolasers

P Hamel, S Haddadi, F Raineri, P Monnier… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Multi-cavity photonic systems, also known as photonic molecules, exhibit multi-well
potentials that may prove useful for advanced quantum and nonlinear optics,,,. A key …

A photonic platform for donor spin qubits in silicon

KJ Morse, RJS Abraham, A DeAbreu, C Bowness… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Donor spins in silicon are highly competitive qubits for upcoming quantum technologies,
offering complementary metal-oxide semiconductor compatibility, coherence (T 2) times of …

Stimulated and spontaneous four-wave mixing in silicon-on-insulator coupled photonic wire nano-cavities

S Azzini, D Grassani, M Galli, D Gerace… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We report on four-wave mixing in coupled photonic crystal nano-cavities on a silicon-on-
insulator platform. Three photonic wire cavities are side-coupled to obtain three modes …

Dynamic acousto-optic control of a strongly coupled photonic molecule

S Kapfinger, T Reichert, S Lichtmannecker… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Strongly confined photonic modes can couple to quantum emitters and mechanical
excitations. To harness the full potential in quantum photonic circuits, interactions between …

An all-silicon single-photon source by unconventional photon blockade

H Flayac, D Gerace, V Savona - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The lack of suitable quantum emitters in silicon and silicon-based materials has prevented
the realization of room temperature, compact, stable and integrated sources of single …

Intercavity polariton slows down dynamics in strongly coupled cavities

YA García Jomaso, B Vargas, DL Domínguez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Band engineering stands as an efficient route to induce strongly correlated quantum many-
body phenomena. Besides inspiring analogies among diverse physical fields, tuning on …

Vibrational resonance amplification in a thermo-optic optomechanical nanocavity

G Madiot, S Barbay, R Braive - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Vibrational resonance is a generic phenomenon found in many different bistable systems
whereby a weak low-frequency signal is amplified by use of an additional nonresonant high …

Photonic molecules: tailoring the coupling strength and sign

S Haddadi, P Hamel, G Beaudoin, I Sagnes… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a large tuning of the coupling strength in Photonic Crystal molecules
without changing the inter-cavity distance. The key element for the design is the “photonic …

Waveguide-coupled photonic crystal cavity for quantum dot spin readout

RJ Coles, N Prtljaga, B Royall, IJ Luxmoore, AM Fox… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We present a waveguide-coupled photonic crystal H1 cavity structure in which the
orthogonal dipole modes couple to spatially separated photonic crystal waveguides …