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Dynamically reconfigurable THz quantum walk comb laser through subharmonic excitation
Valerio Digiorgio, Robert Matthew Gray, Marco Raffa +5
On-chip frequency combs are increasingly relevant to both laser science and applications. Broad bandwidths and flat-top spectral envelopes are especially desirable for precision sp…
Amplitude- and frequency-modulated combs from an actively locked metasurface external-cavity laser
Marco Raffa, Jordane Bloomfield, Yu Wu +5
Optical frequency combs are key components of several photonics applications including spectroscopy, communications, and ultrafast photonics. A central challenge in frequency-comb…
Absence of a Superradiant Phase Transition in Dirac Landau Polaritons
Elsa Jöchl, Felix Helmrich, Frieder Lindel +6
One of the most striking predictions in cavity quantum electrodynamics is the condensation of photons into a macroscopically populated ground state, the so-called superradiant phas…
Ultrabroadband Gain-Switched and Superluminescent Terahertz Semiconductor Lasers
Urban Senica, Michael A. Schreiber, Mattias Beck +3
Terahertz quantum cascade lasers (THz QCLs) are chip-scale semiconductor lasers operating in the frequency range between 1-6 THz, useful as compact sources for spectroscopy, commun…
Quantum cascade laser roadmap
Carlo Silvestri, Aleksandar D. Rakić, Dragan Indjin +46
Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are unipolar semiconductor lasers first demonstrated in 1994. Since then, they have played a central role in advancing mid-infrared and terahertz phot…
Short period InGaAs/AlInAs THz quantum cascade laser in thin double metal cavities operating up to 188K
Sebastian Gloor, David Stark, Martin Frankié +4
We present a two-well terahertz (THz) quantum cascade laser designed for high temperature operation based on the InGaAs/AlInAs material system. The lighter effective mass and highe…
Short mode-locked pulses from planarized Y-coupled THz lasers
Urban Senica, Tabea Bühler, Sara Cibella +4
Short THz pulses are highly attractive both for fundamental research and practical applications in this underdeveloped region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Typically, THz pulses…
Profiling THz Beams With Off-Label Use of Infrared Microbolometric Cameras
Gabriel Nagamine, Carlo Vicario, Tariq Leinen +6
Visualizing the spatial profile of light beams is essential for evaluating irradiance, characterizing beam quality, and achieving precise alignment. In the optical spectral range,…
Gate-tunable single terahertz meta-atom ultrastrong light-matter coupling
Elsa Jöchl, Anna-Lydia Vieli, Lucy Hale +6
We study the electrical tunability of ultrastrong light-matter interactions between a single terahertz circuit-based complementary split ring resonator (cSRR) and a two-dimensional…
Cavity modification of magnetoplasmon mode through coupling with intersubband polaritons
Lucy L. Hale, Daniele De Bernardis, Stephan Lempereur +12
We investigate the coupling of a multi-mode metal-insulator-metal cavity to a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a quantum well in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The…
Multi-mode Deep Strong Coupling in a Multi Quantum Well Fabry-Perot Cavity
Lucy Hale, Johan Andberger, Ethan Koskas +4
We present multi-mode deep-strong coupling in a multi-quantum well (N=166) heterostructure. The heterostructure itself acts as a Fabry-Perot cavity, for which the even cavity modes…
Hybrid interfaces at the single quantum level in fluorescent molecules
Daniele De Bernardis, Hugo Levy-Falk, Elena Fanella +5
We theoretically investigate a single fluorescent molecule as a hybrid quantum optical device, in which multiple external laser sources exert control of the vibronic states. In the…
Spectral shaping of fast-gain frequency combs through phases in synthetic dimensions
Diego Piciocchi, Alexander Dikopoltsev, Ina Heckelmann +3
Optical frequency comb devices have unlocked new capabilities in telecommunications, sensing, and metrology. Yet, precise in situ control of the comb spectral envelope remains extr…
Cavity QED Control of Quantum Hall Stripes
Lorenzo Graziotto, Josefine Enkner, Sambuddha Chattopadhyay +7
Controlling quantum phases of materials with vacuum field fluctuations in engineered cavities is a novel route towards the optical control of emergent phenomena. We demonstrate, us…
On-chip, inverse-designed active wavelength division multiplexer at THz frequencies
Valerio Digiorgio, Urban Senica, Paolo Micheletti +3
The development of photonic integrated components for terahertz has become an active and growing research field. Despite its numerous applications, several challenges are still pre…
Continuously tunable coherent pulse generation in semiconductor lasers
Urban Senica, Michael A. Schreiber, Paolo Micheletti +4
In a laser, the control of its spectral emission depends on the physical dimensions of the optical resonator, limiting it to a set of discrete cavity modes at specific frequencies.…
A Quantum Walk Comb Source at Telecommunication Wavelengths
Bahareh Marzban, Lucius Miller, Alexander Dikopoltsev +3
We demonstrate a quantum walk comb in synthetic frequency space formed by externally modulating a semiconductor optical amplifier operating in the telecommunication wavelength rang…
Enhanced fractional quantum Hall gaps in a two-dimensional electron gas coupled to a hovering split-ring resonator
Josefine Enkner, Lorenzo Graziotto, Dalin Boriçi +7
The magnetotransport of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas coupled to a hovering split-ring resonator with controllable distance is studied in the quantum Hall regime. Th…
Quench dynamics of Wannier-Stark states in an active synthetic photonic lattice
Alexander Dikopoltsev, Ina Heckelmann, Mathieu Bertrand +4
Photonic emulators have facilitated the investigation of numerous solid-state phenomena and have contributed to the development of optical devices inspired by quantum mechanics. Al…
Quantum Walk Comb in a Fast Gain Laser
Ina Heckelmann, Mathieu Bertrand, Alexander Dikopoltsev +3
Synthetic lattices in photonics enable the exploration of light states in new dimensions, transcending phenomena common only to physical space. We propose and demonstrate a Quantum…
Terahertz chiral sub-wavelength cavities breaking time-reversal symmetry via ultra-strong light-matter interaction
Johan Andberger, Lorenzo Graziotto, Luca Sacchi +3
We demonstrate terahertz chiral sub-wavelength cavities that break time-reversal symmetry by coupling the degenerate linearly polarized modes of two orthogonal sets of nano-antenna…
Broadband surface-emitting THz laser frequency combs with inverse-designed integrated reflectors
Urban Senica, Sebastian Gloor, Paolo Micheletti +4
THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) based on double metal waveguides feature broadband and high-temperature devices for use in spectroscopy and sensing. However, their extreme field…
Frequency-modulated combs via on-chip field enhancement
Urban Senica, Alexander Dikopoltsev, Andres Forrer +5
Frequency-modulated (FM) combs feature flat intensity spectra with a linear frequency chirp, useful for metrology and sensing applications. Generating FM combs in semiconductor las…
An engineered planar plasmonic reflector for polaritonic mode confinement
Shima Rajabali, Josefine Enkner, Erika Cortese +4
It was recently demonstrated that, in deep subwavelength gap resonators coupled to two-dimensional electron gases, coupling to propagating plasmons can lead to energy leakage and p…