4 papers
Cryogenic Graphene-Based Phase Modulators for Quantum Information Processing
Leonard Barboza Navarro, Maria Carolina Volpato, Alisson Ronieri Cadore +1
Electro-optic modulators are key components for photonic quantum computing, particularly in fully cryovenic integrated platforms where low loss and compactness are critical. We pre…
Estimating the electrical energy cost of performing arbitrary state preparation using qubits and qudits in integrated photonic circuits
Maria Carolina Volpato, Gabriel da Silva Sampaio, Pierre-Louis de Assis
As quantum photonic hardware scales toward computationally relevant sizes, energy consumption has emerged as a key constraint. Programmable photonic integrated circuits, composed o…
1T'-MoTe as an integrated saturable absorber for photonic machine learning
Maria Carolina Volpato, Henrique G. Rosa, Tom Reep +2
We investigate the saturable absorption behavior of a 1T'-MoTe monolayer integrated with a silicon nitride waveguide for applications in photonic neural networks. Using experim…
Broadband photonic structures to achieve high coupling efficiencies and Purcell factors with dark and interlayer excitons in 2D materials
Maria Carolina Volpato, Kalebe B. Estevam, Marcelo I. Davanco +1
Horizontal slot waveguides are planar photonic structures with a guided mode which is strongly polarized in the out-of-plane direction and tightly confined in a sub-wavelength regi…