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most citedA superconducting focal plane array for ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared astrophysics

130 citations · 517 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Simultaneous ponderomotive squeezing of light by two mechanical modes in an optomechanical system

Peyman Malekzadeh, Emil Zeuthen, Eric Langman +2

We experimentally demonstrate a source of squeezed light featuring simultaneous ponderomotive squeezing from two mechanical modes of an optomechanical system. We use ultra-coherent…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 16 cited

A soft-clamped topological waveguide for phonons

Xiang Xi, Ilia Chernobrovkin, Jan Košata +5

Topological insulators were originally discovered for electron waves in condensed matter systems. Recently this concept has been transferred to bosonic systems such as photons and…

physics.optics2024★ 9 cited

Enhancing Membrane-Based Scanning Force Microscopy Through an Optical Cavity

Thomas Gisler, David Hälg, Vincent Dumont +6

The new generation of strained silicon nitride resonators harbors great promise for scanning force microscopy, especially when combined with the extensive toolbox of cavity optomec…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Strong Thermomechanical Noise Squeezing Stabilized by Feedback

Aida Mashaal, Lucio Stefan, Andrea Ranfagni +5

Squeezing the quadrature noise of a harmonic oscillator used as a sensor can enhance its sensitivity in certain measurment schemes. The canonical approach, based on parametric modu…

quant-ph2023

A Long-lived and Efficient Optomechanical Memory for Light

Mads Bjerregaard Kristensen, Nenad Kralj, Eric Langman +1

We demonstrate a memory for light based on optomechanically induced transparency. We achieve a long storage time by leveraging the ultra-low dissipation of a soft-clamped mechanica…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Membrane-in-the-middle optomechanics with a soft-clamped membrane at milliKelvin temperatures

Eric Planz, Xiang Xi, Thibault Capelle +2

Soft-clamped silicon nitride membrane resonators reach coherence times tau in excess of 100 ms at milliKelvin bath temperatures. However, harnessing strong optomechanical coupling…

quant-ph2022★ 30 cited

Laser cooling a membrane-in-the-middle system close to the quantum ground state from room temperature

Sampo A. Saarinen, Nenad Kralj, Eric C. Langman +2

Many protocols in quantum science and technology require initializing a system in a pure quantum state. In the context of the motional state of massive resonators, this enables stu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 19 cited

Strong parametric coupling between two ultra-coherent membrane modes

David Hälg, Thomas Gisler, Eric C. Langman +5

We demonstrate parametric coupling between two modes of a silicon nitride membrane. We achieve the coupling by applying an oscillating voltage to a sharp metal tip that approaches…

quant-ph2021★ 73 cited

Ground State Cooling of an Ultracoherent Electromechanical System

Yannick Seis, Thibault Capelle, Eric Langman +3

Cavity electromechanics relies on parametric coupling between microwave and mechanical modes to manipulate the mechanical quantum state, and provide a coherent interface between di…

physics.app-ph2020★ 28 cited

Modelling and observation of nonlinear damping in dissipation-diluted nanomechanical resonators

Letizia Catalini, Massimiliano Rossi, Eric C. Langman +1

Dissipation dilution enables extremely low linear loss in stressed, high-aspect ratio nanomechanical resonators, such as strings or membranes. Here, we report on the observation an…

physics.app-ph2020★ 70 cited

Membrane-based scanning force microscopy

David Hälg, Thomas Gisler, Yeghishe Tsaturyan +11

We report the development of a scanning force microscope based on an ultra-sensitive silicon nitride membrane transducer. Our development is made possible by inverting the standard…

quant-ph2016★ 37 cited

Purification of a single photon nonlinearity

H. Snijders, J. A. Frey, J. Norman +6

We show that the lifetime-reduced fidelity of a semiconductor quantum dot-cavity single photon nonlinearity can be restored by polarization pre- and postselection. This is realized…

cond-mat.supr-con2012★ 91 cited

A titanium-nitride near-infrared kinetic inductance photon-counting detector and its anomalous electrodynamics

J. Gao, M. R. Visser, M. O. Sandberg +10

We demonstrate single-photon counting at 1550 nm with titanium-nitride (TiN) microwave kinetic inductance detectors. Energy resolution of 0.4 eV and arrival-time resolution of 1.2…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 130 cited

A superconducting focal plane array for ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared astrophysics

Benjamin A. Mazin, Bruce Bumble, Seth R. Meeker +3

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs, have proven to be a powerful cryogenic detector technology due to their sensitivity and the ease with which they can be multiplexe…