activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

quant-ph2026

Release-free phononic crystal with strong microwave coupling

Joey Frey, Paul Burger, Trond Hjerpekjøn Haug +2

Phonons hold promise for storing and transferring quantum information, including in mechanically-mediated quantum interconnects between superconducting qubits and light. Phononic c…

quant-ph2026

Release-free electro-optomechanical crystal modulator

Paul Burger, Joey Frey, Johan Kolvik +2

Electro-optic modulation is central to classical optical communications and emerging quantum technologies. High-confinement optomechanical crystal modulators enable microwave-optic…

physics.optics2026

Inverse-designed release-free optomechanical crystal with high photon-phonon coupling

David Hambraeus, Paul Burger, Johan Kolvik +2

Interactions between light and mechanics provide a powerful interface between optical and microwave-frequency signals, with applications spanning classical signal processing and qu…

quant-ph2025

Optomechanical crystal in light-resilient quantum ground state

Johan Kolvik, Paul Burger, David Hambraeus +4

Interaction between light and high-frequency sound is a key area in integrated photonics, quantum and nonlinear optics, and quantum science. However, typical suspended optomechanic…

quant-ph2024

Design of a release-free piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer

Paul Burger, Joey Frey, Johan Kolvik +2

Quantum transduction between microwave and optical photons could combine the long-range connectivity provided by optical photons with the deterministic quantum operations of superc…