Publications (55)
Ultra-low loss piezo-optomechanical low-confinement silicon nitride platform for visible wavelength quantum photonic circuits
Mayank Mishra, Gwangho Choi, Wenhua He +7
The stringent demands of photonic quantum computing protocols motivate photonic integrated circuit (PIC) platforms with passive optical properties such as extremely low losses and…
Towards a monolithic platform for coupling superconducting circuits to low-loss microwave phonons in AlScN on 4H-SiC
Yuanchen Deng, William W. Roberts, Sueli Skinner-Ramos +12
The paper presents a monolithic platform that integrates aluminum superconducting microwave resonators on silicon carbide with piezoelectric AlScN layers to enable low‑loss microwa…
Modulation of Brillouin optomechanical interactions via acoustoelectric phonon-electron coupling
Nils T. Otterstrom, Matthew J. Storey, Ryan O. Behunin +3
Optomechanical Brillouin nonlinearities -- arising from the coupling between traveling photons and phonons -- have become the basis for a range of powerful optical signal processin…
Optimal Quantum Transfer from Input Flying Qubit to Lossy Quantum Memory
Eric Chatterjee, Daniel Soh, Matt Eichenfield
In a quantum network, a key challenge is to minimize the direct reflection of flying qubits as they couple to stationary, resonator-based memory qubits, as the reflected amplitude…
Scalable construction of hybrid quantum photonic cavities
Andrew S. Greenspon, Mark Dong, Ian Christen +3
Nanophotonic resonators are central to numerous applications, from efficient spin-photon interfaces to laser oscillators and precision sensing. A leading approach consists of photo…
CMOS-fabricated ultraviolet light modulators using low-loss alumina piezo-optomechanical photonic circuits
Zachary A. Castillo, Roman Shugayev, Daniel Dominguez +6
Ultra-violet (UV) and near-UV wavelengths are necessary for many important optical transitions for quantum technologies and various sensing mechanisms for biological and chemical d…
Ab-Initio Calculations of Nonlinear Susceptibility and Multi-Phonon Mixing Processes in a 2DEG-Piezoelectric Heterostructure
Eric Chatterjee, Alexander Wendt, Daniel Soh +1
Solid-state elastic-wave phonons are a promising platform for a wide range of quantum information applications. An outstanding challenge and enabling capability in harnessing phono…
Electrically interfaced Brillouin-active waveguide for multi-domain transduction
Yishu Zhou, Freek Ruesink, Margaret Pavlovich +14
New strategies to convert signals between optical and microwave domains could play a pivotal role in advancing both classical and quantum technologies. Through recent studies, elec…
Optical and mechanical design of a "zipper" photonic crystal optomechanical cavity
Jasper Chan, Matt Eichenfield, Ryan Camacho +1
Design of a doubly-clamped beam structure capable of localizing mechanical and optical energy at the nanoscale is presented. The optical design is based upon photonic crystal conce…
Quantum-Limited Acoustoelectric Amplification in a Piezoelectric-2DEG Heterostructure
Eric Chatterjee, Daniel Soh, Matt Eichenfield
We provide a quantum mechanical description of phonon amplification in a heterostructure consisting of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) stacked on top of a piezoelectric mater…
Gigahertz-Frequency, Acousto-Optic Phase Modulation of Visible Light in a CMOS-Fabricated Photonic Circuit
Jacob M. Freedman, Matthew J. Storey, Daniel Dominguez +4
Here we present an efficient, visible-light, gigahertz-frequency acousto-optic modulator fabricated on a 200 mm wafer in a volume CMOS foundry. Our device combines a piezoelectric…
Nanoelectromechanical control of spin-photon interfaces in a hybrid quantum system on chip
Genevieve Clark, Hamza Raniwala, Matthew Koppa +11
Atom-like defects or color centers (CC's) in nanostructured diamond are a leading platform for optically linked quantum technologies, with recent advances including memory-enhanced…
An Electrically Injected and Solid State Surface Acoustic Wave Phonon Laser
Alexander Wendt, Matthew J. Storey, Michael Miller +6
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) enable a wide array of technologies including RF filters, chemical and biological sensors, acousto-optic devices, acoustic control of microfluidic flo…
A spin-optomechanical quantum interface enabled by an ultrasmall mechanical and optical mode volume cavity
Hamza Raniwala, Pratyush Anand, Stefan Krastanov +3
We propose a coherent mechanical interface between defect centers in diamond and telecom optical modes. Combining recent developments in spin-mechanical devices and optomechanical…
Synchronous micromechanically resonant programmable photonic circuits
Mark Dong, Julia M. Boyle, Kevin J. Palm +7
Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are emerging as powerful tools for the precise manipulation of light, with applications in quantum information processing, optical…
S-band acoustoelectric amplifier utilizing an ultra-high thermal conductivity heterostructure for low self-heating
Lisa Hackett, Xingyu Du, Michael Miller +9
Here we report on an acoustoelectric slab waveguide heterostructure for phonon amplification using a thin AlScN film grown directly on a 4H-SiC substrate with an…
Nonreciprocal low-noise acoustoelectric microwave amplifiers with net gain in continuous operation
Lisa Hackett, Michael Miller, Scott Weatherred +7
Over sixty years ago, it was hypothesized that specially designed acoustic systems that leveraged the acoustoelectric effect between phonons and charge carriers could revolutionize…
Reconfigurable quantum phononic circuits via piezo-acoustomechanical interactions
Jeffrey C. Taylor, Eric Chatterjee, William F. Kindel +2
We show that piezoelectric strain actuation of acoustomechanical interactions can produce large phase velocity changes in an existing quantum phononic platform: aluminum nitride on…
Micro-electromechanical photonic integrated memristors
Matthew Zimmermann, Julia M. Boyle, Hardit Singh +7
Programmable optical memristors embedded in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are emerging as an important technology for high-speed optical storage and in-memory optical computi…
Noise factor of Brillouin amplifiers
John H. Dallyn, Nils T. Otterstrom, Matt Eichenfield +2
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), an optical nonlinearity arising from photon-phonon interactions, has formed the basis for a large class of optical signal processing devices,…
Modular chip-integrated photonic control of artificial atoms in diamond nanostructures
Kevin J. Palm, Mark Dong, D. Andrew Golter +10
A central goal in creating long-distance quantum networks and distributed quantum computing is the development of interconnected and individually controlled qubit nodes. Atom-like…
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of the acoustoelectric quantum vacuum
Ryan O. Behunin, Andrew Shepherd, Francesco Intravaia +1
The paper investigates how a constant drift of charge carriers faster than the speed of sound in acoustoelectric systems gives the quantum vacuum a thermal character, with an effec…
Nanophotonic waveguide chip-to-free-space beam scanning at 68 Million Spots/(smm)
Matt Saha, Y. Henry Wen, Andrew S. Greenspon +11
A seamless chip-to-world photonic interface enables wide-ranging advancements in optical ranging, display, communication, computation, imaging, and light-matter interaction. An opt…
Characterization of radiation pressure and thermal effects in a nanoscale optomechanical cavity
Ryan M. Camacho, Jasper Chan, Matt Eichenfield +1
Optical forces in guided-wave nanostructures have recently been proposed as an effective means of mechanically actuating and tuning optical components. In this work, we study the p…
Titania-doped tantala/silica coatings for gravitational-wave detection
Gregory M. Harry, Matthew R. Abernathy, Andres E. Becerra-Toledo +23
Reducing thermal noise from optical coatings is crucial to reaching the required sensitivity in next generation interferometric gravitational-waves detectors. Here we show that add…
Scalable photonic integrated circuits for programmable control of atomic systems
Adrian J Menssen, Artur Hermans, Ian Christen +10
Advances in laser technology have driven discoveries in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics and emerging applications, from quantum computers with cold atoms or ions, to q…
Coherent mixing of mechanical excitations in nano-optomechanical structures
Qiang Lin, Jessie Rosenberg, Darrick Chang +4
The combination of large per-photon optical force and small motional mass attainable in nanocavity optomechanical systems results in strong dynamical back-action between mechanical…
Modeling Dispersive Coupling and Losses of Localized Optical and Mechanical Modes in Optomechanical Crystals
Matt Eichenfield, Jasper Chan, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini +2
Periodically structured materials can sustain both optical and mechanical excitations which are tailored by the geometry. Here we analyze the properties of dispersively coupled pla…
Optomechanical Crystals
Matt Eichenfield, Jasper Chan, Ryan M. Camacho +2
Structured, periodic optical materials can be used to form photonic crystals capable of dispersing, routing, and trapping light. A similar phenomena in periodic elastic structures…
High-speed photonic crystal modulator with non-volatile memory via structurally-engineered strain concentration in a piezo-MEMS platform
Y. Henry Wen, David Heim, Matthew Zimmermann +7
Numerous applications in quantum and classical optics require scalable, high-speed modulators that cover visible-NIR wavelengths with low footprint, drive voltage (V) and power dis…
Strategic Plan for Neutral Atom Quantum Computation
Adrian J. Menssen, Tout Wang, Michael Gullans +54
We present a strategic plan for neutral atom quantum computation, bringing together hardware development and theory advancements to achieve the goal of practical quantum advantage.…
High-speed programmable photonic circuits in a cryogenically compatible, visible-NIR 200 mm CMOS architecture
Mark Dong, Genevieve Clark, Andrew J. Leenheer +7
Recent advances in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have enabled a new generation of "programmable many-mode interferometers" (PMMIs) realized by cascaded Mach Zehnder Interfero…
A Terahertz Bandwidth Nonmagnetic Isolator
Haotian Cheng, Yishu Zhou, Freek Ruesink +15
Integrated photonics could bring transformative breakthroughs in computing, networking, imaging, sensing, and quantum information processing, enabled by increasingly sophisticated…
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Slow Light with Optomechanics
Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, Jasper Chan +6
Controlling the interaction between localized optical and mechanical excitations has recently become possible following advances in micro- and nano-fabrication techniques. To date,…
Scalable low loss cryogenic packaging of quantum memories in CMOS-foundry processed photonic chips
Robert Bernson, Alex Witte, Genevieve Clark +10
Optically linked solid-state quantum memories such as color centers in diamond are a promising platform for distributed quantum information processing and networking. Photonic inte…
Spin-Phonon-Photon Strong Coupling in a Piezomechanical Nanocavity
Hamza Raniwala, Stefan Krastanov, Lisa Hackett +3
We introduce a hybrid tripartite quantum system for strong coupling between a semiconductor spin, a mechanical phonon, and a microwave photon. Consisting of a piezoelectric resonat…
Actuation of Micro-Optomechanical Systems Via Cavity-Enhanced Optical Dipole Forces
Matt Eichenfield, Christopher P. Michael, Raviv Perahia +1
We demonstrate a new type of optomechanical system employing a movable, micron-scale waveguide evanescently-coupled to a high-Q optical microresonator. Micron-scale displacements o…
Piezoelectrically actuated high-speed spatial light modulator for visible to near-infrared wavelengths
Tom Vanackere, Artur Hermans, Ian Christen +8
Advancements in light modulator technology have been driving discoveries and progress across various fields. The problem of large-scale coherent optical control of atomic quantum s…
Low-Dimensional Solid-State Single-Photon Emitters
Jinli Chen, Chaohan Cui, Ben Lawrie +5
Solid-state single-photon emitters (SPEs) are attracting significant attention as fundamental components in quantum computing, communication, and sensing. Low-dimensional materials…
Exact Solutions to Acoustoelectric Interactions in Arbitrary Geometries
William W. Roberts, Matt Eichenfield
Acoustoelectric interactions occur when free carriers in a semiconductor interact with the fields of an acoustic wave in a piezoelectric medium. These interactions can amplify acou…
Hybrid electrostatic-piezo MEMS photonic integrated modulators
Thuy-Linh Le, Hardit Singh, Julia M. Boyle +5
Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have recently emerged as an important technology for quantum information science and artificial neural networks. In particular, PIC…
Intermodal strong coupling and wideband, low-loss isolation in silicon
Yishu Zhou, Freek Ruesink, Shai Gertler +18
Strong coupling enables a diverse set of applications that include optical memories, non-magnetic isolators, photonic state manipulation, and signal processing. To date, strong cou…
Noise and dynamics in acoustoelectric waveguides
Ryan O. Behunin, Andrew Shepherd, Ruoyu Yuan +5
We present a quantum field theoretic formulation of acoustoelectric interactions in waveguide-like systems of arbitrary cross-section. Building on an open quantum systems approach,…
Multiplexed control of spin quantum memories in a photonic circuit
D. Andrew Golter, Genevieve Clark, Tareq El Dandachi +11
A central goal in many quantum information processing applications is a network of quantum memories that can be entangled with each other while being individually controlled and me…
Design of optomechanical transducers for sub-micron resolution ultrasound imaging
Lisa Hackett, Chang Ge, Alex Miera +2
Ultrasound is a noninvasive, real-time, and therefore widely used imaging modality; yet its application in cellular and sub-cellular biology is significantly limited by rapidly inc…
High-fidelity State Transfer Between Leaky Quantum Memories
Daniel Soh, Eric Chatterjee, Matt Eichenfield
We derive the optimal analytical quantum-state-transfer control solutions for two disparate quantum memory blocks. Employing the SLH formalism description of quantum network theory…
Monolithic Integration of Piezo-Optomechanical Photonics and CMOS Electronics
Matthew Zimmermann, Aileen Zhai, Andrew J. Leenheer +10
Next-generation photonic architectures for AI, sensing, and quantum computing require thousands to millions of reprogrammable photonic devices on a chip[1]. The monolithic integrat…
Programmable photonic integrated meshes for modular generation of optical entanglement links
Mark Dong, Matthew Zimmermann, David Heim +9
Large-scale generation of quantum entanglement between individually controllable qubits is at the core of quantum computing, communications, and sensing. Modular architectures of r…
High-fidelity trapped-ion qubit operations with scalable photonic modulators
Craig W. Hogle, Daniel Dominguez, Mark Dong +5
Experiments with trapped ions and neutral atoms typically employ optical modulators in order to control the phase, frequency, and amplitude of light directed to individual atoms. T…
High-Efficiency Three-Wave and Four-Wave Phonon Mixing Via Electron-Mediated Nonlinearity in Semiconductor-Piezoelectric Heterostructures
Lisa Hackett, Matthew Koppa, Brandon Smith +7
We show that phononic frequency conversion can be enhanced by orders of magnitude in piezoelectric systems by heterogeneous integration of high-mobility semiconductor films. A lith…
A Phononic Bus for Coherent Interfaces Between a Superconducting Quantum Processor, Spin Memory, and Photonic Quantum Networks
Tomas Neuman, Matt Eichenfield, Matthew Trusheim +3
We introduce a method for high-fidelity quantum state transduction between a superconducting microwave qubit and the ground state spin system of a solid-state artificial atom, medi…
Strongly Electromechanical Coupled Phononic Waveguides in Aluminum Scandium Nitride on Silicon Carbide
Yuanchen Deng, Dalton Anderson, Xingyu Du +6
Guided phonons have become an increasingly important platform for classical and quantum information processing. While conventional surface acoustic wave systems are typically only…
An integrated photonics platform for high-speed, ultrahigh-extinction, many-channel quantum control
Mengdi Zhao, Manuj Singh, Anshuman Singh +10
High-fidelity control of the thousands to millions of programmable qubits needed for utility-scale quantum computers presents a formidable challenge for control systems. In leading…
Towards Navigation-Grade and Deployable Optomechanical Accelerometry
Chang Ge, Daniel Dominguez, Allison Rubenok +2
We design and experimentally demonstrate an architecture for achieving navigation-grade, fiber-packaged optomechanical accelerometers that can operate with a large dynamic range, o…
Piezo-optomechanical cantilever modulators for VLSI visible photonics
Mark Dong, David Heim, Alex Witte +8
Visible-wavelength very large-scale integration (VLSI) photonic circuits have potential to play important roles in quantum information and sensing technologies. The realization of…