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physics.optics2026

Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping

Chengyu Fang, Minjeong Kim, Mark Saffman +2

Trapped neutral atoms are one of the leading platforms for quantum information technologies, in particular for quantum computing, but scaling them to array sizes needed for utility…

physics.optics2026

Silicon-on-sapphire metasurfaces generate arrays of dark and bright traps for neutral atoms

Chengyu Fang, Minjeong Kim, Hongyan Mei +10

We demonstrated crystalline silicon-on-sapphire (c-SOS) metasurfaces that convert a Gaussian beam into arrays of complex optical traps, including arrays of optical bottle beams tha…

physics.optics2025

Efficient simulation framework for modeling collective emission in ensembles of inhomogeneous solid-state emitters

Qingyi Zhou, Wenxin Wu, Maryam Zahedian +2

An efficient simulation framework is proposed to model collective emission in disordered ensembles of quantum emitters. Using a cumulant expansion approach, the computational compl…

physics.optics2024

Broadband light extraction from near-surface NV centers using crystalline-silicon antennas

Minjeong Kim, Maryam Zahedian, Wenxin Wu +9

We use crystalline silicon (Si) antennas to efficiently extract broadband single-photon fluorescence from shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond into free space. Our desi…

physics.optics2024

Atomic magnetometry using a metasurface polarizing beamsplitter in silicon on sapphire

Xuting Yang, Pritha Mukherjee, Minjeong Kim +9

We demonstrate atomic magnetometry using a metasurface polarizing beamsplitter fabricated on a silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) platform. The metasurface splits a beam that is near-resona…