Reconfigurable photonics with on-chip single-photon detectors

Samuel Gyger; Julien Zichi; Lucas Schweickert; Ali W. Elshaari; Stephan Steinhauer; Saimon F. Covre da Silva; Armando Rastelli; Val Zwiller; Klaus D. Jöns; Carlos Errando-Herranz

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21624-3

Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Reconfigurable photonics with on-chip single-photon detectors

Samuel Gyger,
Julien Zichi,
Lucas Schweickert,
Ali W. Elshaari,
Stephan Steinhauer,
Saimon F. Covre da Silva,
Armando Rastelli,
Val Zwiller,
Klaus D. Jöns,
Carlos Errando-Herranz

Affiliations

Samuel Gyger: Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Julien Zichi: Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Lucas Schweickert: Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Ali W. Elshaari: Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stephan Steinhauer: Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Saimon F. Covre da Silva: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Armando Rastelli: Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Val Zwiller: Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Klaus D. Jöns: Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Carlos Errando-Herranz: Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21624-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Integrated photonics are promising to scale up quantum optics. Here the authors combine low-power microelectromechanical control and superconducting single-photon detectors on the same chip and demonstrate routing, high-dynamic-range detection, and power stabilization.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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