The technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which allows efficient and
selective population transfer between quantum states without suffering loss due to …

We review both theoretical and experimental advances in the recently emerged field of
modulated photonic lattices. These artificial periodic dielectric structures provide a powerful …

Engineered photonic waveguides have provided in the past decade an extremely rich
laboratory tool to visualize with optical waves the classic analogues of a wide variety of …

Waveguide lattices offer a compact and stable platform for a range of applications, including
quantum walks, condensed matter system simulation, and classical and quantum …

Efficient, broadband illumination and collection through a nanometre-sized hotspot carried
by a scanning probe will endow light–matter interaction research with nanoscale spatial …

We report on an experimental demonstration of light transfer in an engineered triple-well
optical waveguide structure which provides a classic analog of coherent tunneling by …

We derive STIRAP (stimulated Raman adiabatic passage) shortcuts to adiabaticity
maximizing population transfer in a three-level Λ quantum system, using spin-to-spring …

The procedure of stimulated-Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), one of many well-
established techniques for quantum-state manipulation, finds widespread application in …

We use optimal control theory to obtain shortcuts to adiabaticity which maximize population
transfer in a three-level stimulated Raman adiabatic passage system, for a given finite …

Adiabatic techniques are known to allow for engineering quantum states with high fidelity.
This requirement is currently of large interest, as applications in quantum information require …