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most citedOptical pump-rejection filter based on silicon sub-wavelength engineered photonic structures

52 citations · 157 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

physics.optics2026

Fully passive monolithic silicon quantum photonic circuit for entangled photon-pair generation

David E. Medina, Paul J. Robin, Romain Dalidet +8

Integrated quantum photonic circuits are a key enabling technology for the scalability of quantum information systems. Among the available platforms, silicon photonics offers an un…

physics.optics2026

Topological photonic cavities based on dissimilar Bragg gratings

Alejandro Sánchez-Sánchez, José Manuel Luque-González, Gauthier Krizman +12

Topological photonic cavities offer a powerful route to robust optical confinement and enhanced light-matter interactions. Interface states that emerge at the boundary between one-…

physics.optics2026

Boundary-dominated optomechanics in silicon metamaterial membranes

David González-Andrade, Paula Nuño Ruano, Jianhao Zhang +10

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in integrated photonic waveguides enables coherent coupling between optical photons and gigahertz acoustic phonons, providing a powerful mechanism f…

physics.optics2025

High-resolution broadband characterization of resonance dispersion in an optical microresonator

Romain Dalidet, Adrien Bensemhoun, Gregory Sauder +12

Accurate knowledge of the uneven free spectral range of an optical microresonator, which provides direct insight into group velocity dispersion, is essential for understanding and…

physics.optics2025

Dispersion engineered AlGaAs-on-insulator nanophotonics by distributed feedback

Francesco Rinaldo Talenti, Luca Lovisolo, Zijun Xiao +9

Technological advances in the fabrication of nanophotonic circuits have driven the scientific community to increasingly focus on the precise tailoring of their key optical properti…

quant-ph2025

Multi-dimensional frequency-bin entanglement-based quantum key distribution network

George Claudiu Crisan, Antoine Henry, Dario Alessandro Fioretto +7

Quantum networks enhance quantum communication schemes and link multiple users over large areas. Harnessing high dimensional quantum states - i.e. qu-d-its - allows for a denser tr…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

On-chip pulse generation at 8 μm wavelength

Annabelle Bricout, Mathieu Bertrand, Philipp Täschler +15

The mid-infrared spectral region holds growing importance for applications such as gas sensing and spectroscopy. Although compact ultrashort pulse laser sources are essential to en…

physics.optics2025

Germanium-Based Mid-Infrared Photonics

Delphine Marris-Morini, Goran Z. Mashanovich, Milos Nedeljkovic +4

The mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral range is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum in which most of the molecules have vibrational and rotational resonances. Ge-based photonic inte…

physics.optics2024★ 10 cited

Broadband mode exchanger based on subwavelength Y-junctions

Raquel Fernández de Cabo, Alejandro Sánchez-Sánchez, Yijun Yang +4

Multimode silicon photonics, leveraging mode-division multiplexing technologies, offers significant potential to increase capacity of large-scale multiprocessing systems for on-chi…

physics.optics2024

Tunable on-chip electro-optic frequency-comb generation at 8 μm wavelength

Victor Turpaud, Thi-Hao-Nhi Nguyen, Natnicha Koompai +9

Dual-comb spectroscopy is a powerful technique to measure optical spectra in a wide spectral range with high-frequency resolution. The development of compact systems operating in t…

physics.optics2024

Stimulated Forward Brillouin Scattering in Subwavelength Silicon Membranes

Paula Nuño Ruano, Jianhao Zhang, David González-Andrade +6

Brillouin scattering enables efficient and coherent conversion between optical photons and gigahertz-frequency phonons. Integrated circuits that harness this nonlinear interaction…

physics.optics2023★ 10 cited

Genetic optimization of Brillouin scattering gain in subwavelength-structured silicon membrane waveguides

Paula Nuño Ruano, Jianhao Zhang, Xavier Le Roux +6

On-chip Brillouin optomechanics has great potential for applications in communications, sensing, and quantum technologies. Tight confinement of near-infrared photons and gigahertz…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Spatial and polarization division multiplexing harnessing on-chip optical beam forming

David González-Andrade, Xavier Le Roux, Guy Aubin +10

On-chip spatial and polarization multiplexing have emerged as a powerful strategy to boost the bandwidth of integrated optical transceivers. State-of-the-art multiplexers require a…

physics.optics2022★ 20 cited

Broadband behavior of quadratic metalenses with a wide field of view

Yang Liu, Jianhao Zhang, Xavier Le Roux +5

Metalenses are attracting a large interest for the implementation of complex optical functionalities in planar and compact devices. However, chromatic and off-axis aberrations rema…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Surface acoustic wave lasing in a silicon optomechanical cavity

J. Zhang, P. Nuño-Ruano, X. Le Roux +6

Integrated optomechanical cavities stand as a promising means to interface mechanical motion and guided optical modes. State-of-the-art demonstrations rely on optical and mechanica…

physics.optics2022★ 3 cited

Dispersive wave control enabled by silicon metamaterial waveguides

T. T. D. Dinh, X. Le Roux, M. Montesinos-Ballester +11

The ability to exploit the on-chip nonlinear generation of new frequencies has opened the door to a plethora of applications in fundamental and applied physics. Excitation of dispe…

physics.optics2021

Mid-infrared Fourier-transform spectrometer based on metamaterial lateral cladding suspended silicon waveguides

Thi Thuy Duong Dinh, Xavier Le Roux, Natnicha Koompai +9

Integrated mid-infrared micro-spectrometers have a great potential for applications in environmental monitoring and space exploration. Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) is a promising pla…

physics.optics2021

Universal coupler for bulk whispering gallery mode resonators based on silicon subwavelength grating waveguides

D. Farnesi, S. Pelli, S. Soria +6

Optical microresonators are of paramount importance in photonic circuits requiring fine spectral filtering or resonant light recirculation. Key performance metrics improve with inc…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

Boosting the SiN nonlinear photonic platform with transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

Vincent Pelgrin, Yuchen Wang, Jonathan Peltier +4

In the past few years, we have witnessed an increased interest in the use of 2D materials for the realization of hybrid photonic nonlinear waveguides. Although graphene has attract…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Generating 10-GHz phonons in nanostructured silicon membrane optomechanical cavity

Jianhao Zhang, Xavier Le Roux, Miguel Montesinos-Ballester +6

Flexible control of photons and phonons in silicon nanophotonic waveguides is a key feature for emerging applications in communications, sensing and quantum technologies. Strong ph…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

Silicon-on-insulator optomechanical microresonator with tight photon and phonon confinement

Jianhao Zhang, Xavier Le Roux, Miguel Montesinos-Ballester +5

The implementation of optomechanical devices in silicon-on-insulator (SOI), the canonical silicon photonics technology is seriously hampered by the strong phonon leakage into the s…

physics.app-ph2020

Stress measurements in silicon photonics by integrated Raman spectroscopy

Guillaume Marcaud, Mathias Berciano, Christian Lafforgue +11

Complex 3D integration of photonic and electronic integrated circuits is of particular interest to carry the photonics roadmap and to address challenges but involves mechanical str…

quant-ph2020★ 52 cited

High-quality photonic entanglement based on a silicon chip

Dorian Oser, Sébastien Tanzilli, Florent Mazeas +8

The fruitful association of quantum and integrated photonics holds the promise to produce, manipulate, and detect quantum states of light using compact and scalable systems. Integr…

physics.optics2019

Optical modulation in Ge-rich SiGe waveguides in the mid-IR wavelength range up to 11 um

Miguel Montesinos-Ballester, Vladyslav Vakarin, Joan Manel Ramirez +11

Waveguide integrated optical modulators in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength range are of significant interest for molecular spectroscopy in one hand, as on-chip synchronous det…