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physics.optics2026

Coupling nitrogen vacancy centers in silicon carbide to nanophotonic resonators

Ivan Zhigulin, Konosuke Shimazaki, Samuel M. Stephens +5

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising platform for scalable quantum technologies owing to its well-established, wafer-scale industrial processing. SiC also hosts a variety of optica…

physics.optics2026

Engineering and Tuning of high quality hexagonal boron nitride nanophotonic resonators

Otto Cranwell Schaeper, Angus Gale, Nathan Coste +4

Van der Waals materials are offering intriguing opportunities as building blocks for advanced quantum information technologies and integrated quantum photonic systems. Critical to…

physics.optics2025

Visible Integrated Photonics with Tantalum Pentoxide

Sergei Nedić, Angus Gale, Hugo Quard +3

Developing chip-scale photonic platforms for the visible spectrum is essential for translating next-generation optical technologies. Here, we demonstrate that tantalum pentoxide Ta…

physics.optics2025

Quantum Emitters in Rhombohedral Boron Nitride

Angus Gale, Mehran Kianinia, Jake Horder +8

Rhombohedral boron nitride (rBN) is an emerging wide-bandgap van der Waals (vdW) material that combines strong second-order nonlinear optical properties with the structural flexibi…

physics.optics2023

On-Demand Quantum Light Sources for Underwater Communications

Dominic Scognamiglio, Angus Gale, Ali Al-Juboori +2

Quantum communication has been at the forefront of modern research for decades, however it is severely hampered in underwater applications, where the properties of water absorb nea…

physics.optics2023★ 36 cited

Optically addressable spin defects coupled to bound states in the continuum metasurfaces

Luca Sortino, Angus Gale, Lucca Kühner +9

Van der Waals (vdW) materials, including hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), are layered crystalline solids with appealing properties for investigating light-matter interactions at the…

physics.optics2023★ 13 cited

Manipulating the Charge State of Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Angus Gale, Dominic Scognamiglio, Ivan Zhigulin +4

Negatively charged boron vacancies () in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently gained interest as spin defects for quantum information processing and quantum s…

physics.optics2023

Photophysics of blue quantum emitters in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Ivan Zhigulin, Karin Yamamura, Viktor Ivády +6

Colour centres in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as intriguing contenders for integrated quantum photonics. In this work, we present detailed photophysical analysis of…

physics.optics2021

Deterministic fabrication of blue quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride

Angus Gale, Chi Li, Yongliang Chen +4

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is gaining considerable attention as a solid-state host of quantum emitters from the ultraviolet to the near infrared spectral ranges. However, atomic…