Ultra-fast femtosecond (fs) lasers provide a unique technological opportunity to precisely
and efficiently micromachine materials with minimal thermal damage owing to the reduced …

With the invention of chirped pulse amplification for lasers in the mid-1980s, high power
ultrafast lasers entered into the world as a disruptive tool, with potential impact on a broad …

Integrated photonics is a powerful platform that can improve the performance and stability of
optical systems while providing low-cost, small-footprint, and scalable alternatives to …

The ability to process optical signals without passing into the electrical domain has always
attracted the attention of the research community. Processing photons by photons unfolds …

Color centers, optically active defects within solids, are vital for leading quantum information
technologies such as quantum computing and quantum sensing. An essential prerequisite …

The realization of scalable systems for quantum information processing and networking is of
utmost importance to the quantum information community. However, building such systems …

Diamond has attracted great interest in the quantum optics community thanks to its nitrogen
vacancy (NV) center, a naturally occurring impurity that is responsible for the pink coloration …

Color centers in silicon carbide are relevant for applications in quantum technologies as
they can produce single photon sources or can be used as spin qubits and in quantum …

Lithium niobate is considered as the “silicon of photonics” because of its many excellent
optical properties as well as a wide transparency window covering the visible to mid …

Diamond's nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is an optically active defect with long spin
coherence times, showing great potential for both efficient nanoscale magnetometry and …