Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

On-chip electro-optic frequency shifters and beam splitters

Y Hu, M Yu, D Zhu, N Sinclair, A Shams-Ansari, L Shao… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Efficient frequency shifting and beam splitting are important for a wide range of applications,
including atomic physics,, microwave photonics,,–, optical communication, and photonic …

Squeezed light from a nanophotonic molecule

Y Zhang, M Menotti, K Tan, VD Vaidya… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Delicate engineering of integrated nonlinear structures is required for developing scalable
sources of non-classical light to be deployed in quantum information processing systems. In …

Controlled-phase gate using dynamically coupled cavities and optical nonlinearities

M Heuck, K Jacobs, DR Englund - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We show that relatively simple integrated photonic circuits have the potential to realize a
high fidelity deterministic controlled-phase gate between photonic qubits using bulk optical …

Observing non-Hermiticity induced chirality breaking in a synthetic Hall ladder

R Ye, Y He, G Li, L Wang, X Wu, X Qiao… - Light: Science & …, 2025 - nature.com
Non-Hermitian topological photonics plays a key role in bridging topological matter with gain
and loss engineering in optics. Here we report the experimental observation of the break of …

Photon-photon interactions in dynamically coupled cavities

M Heuck, K Jacobs, DR Englund - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We study theoretically the interaction between two photons in a nonlinear cavity. The
photons are absorbed into the cavity by an effective tuning of its input-output coupling via …

All-photonic artificial-neural-network processor via nonlinear optics

JR Basani, M Heuck, DR Englund, S Krastanov - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Optics and photonics have recently captured interest as a platform to accelerate linear matrix
processing, otherwise a bottleneck in traditional digital electronics. In this paper we propose …

Suppression of parasitic nonlinear processes in spontaneous four-wave mixing with linearly uncoupled resonators

FA Sabattoli, H El Dirani, L Youssef, F Garrisi… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We report on a signal-to-noise ratio characterizing the generation of identical photon pairs of
more than 4 orders of magnitude in a ring resonator system. Parasitic noise, associated with …

Controlled-phase gate by dynamic coupling of photons to a two-level emitter

S Krastanov, K Jacobs, G Gilbert, DR Englund… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
We propose an architecture for achieving high-fidelity deterministic quantum logic gates on
dual-rail encoded photonic qubits by letting photons interact with a two-level emitter (TLE) …

Large regenerative parametric amplification on chip at ultra-low pump powers

Y Zhao, JK Jang, X Ji, Y Okawachi, M Lipson, AL Gaeta - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Chip-based optical amplifiers can significantly expand the functionalities of photonic
devices. In particular, optical-parametric amplifiers (OPAs), with engineerable gain spectra …