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20132024
most citedA 1D Optomechanical crystal with a complete phononic band gap

182 citations · 691 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Nonvolatile reconfigurable polarization rotator at datacom wavelengths based on a Sb2Se3/Si waveguide

Jorge Parra, Miroslavna Kovylina, Amadeu Griol +1

Silicon photonics has become a key platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) due to its high refractive index and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor…

physics.optics2024★ 5 cited

Cascaded injection locking of optomechanical crystal oscillators

David Alonso-Tomás, Guillermo Arregui, Laura Mercadé +4

Optomechanical oscillators stand out as high-performance and versatile candidates for serving as reference clocks in sequential photonic integrated circuits. Indeed, they have the…

physics.optics2024

Optomechanical cavities based on epitaxial GaP on nominally (001)-oriented Si

Paula Mouriño, Laura Mercadé, Miguel Sinusía Lozano +8

Gallium phosphide (GaP) has recently received considerable attention as a suitable material for building photonic integrated circuits due to its remarkable optical and piezoelectri…

physics.optics2023★ 3 cited

Master-Slave synchronization of silicon optomechanical nanobeam oscillators by external feedback

David Alonso-Tomás, Nestor E. Capuj, Laura Mercadé +3

The remote synchronization of oscillators is essential for improving the performance, efficiency, and reliability of various systems and technologies, ranging from everyday telecom…

physics.optics2022

Accurate Transfer of Individual Nanoparticles onto Single Photonic Nanostructures

J. Redolat, M. Camarena-Pérez, A. Griol +5

Controlled integration of metallic nanoparticles (NPs) onto photonic nanostructures enables realization of complex devices for extreme light confinement and enhanced light-matter i…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Engineering multiple GHz mechanical modes in optomechanical crystal cavities

Laura Mercadé, Raúl Ortiz, Alberto Grau +3

Optomechanical crystal cavities (OMCCs) are fundamental nanostructures for a wide range of phenomena and applications. Usually, optomechanical interaction in such OMCCs is limited…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Experimental observation of higher-order anapoles in individual silicon disks under in-plane illumination

Evelyn Diaz-Escobar, Angela I. Barreda, Amadeu Griol +1

Anapole states - characterized by a strong suppression of far-field scattering - naturally arise in high-index nanoparticles as a result of the interference between certain multipo…

physics.app-ph2022

Testing optomechanical microwave oscillators for SATCOM application

Laura Mercadé, Eloy Rico, Jesús Ruiz Garnica +5

The realization of photonic microwave oscillators using optomechanical cavities has recently become a reality. By pumping the cavity with a blue-detuned laser, the so-called phonon…

physics.optics2022★ 12 cited

Optomechanical Modulation Spectroscopy of Bound-States-In-The-Continuum in a dielectric metasurface

S. Zanotto, G. Conte, L. C. Bellieres +5

Elusive features in photonic and electronic devices can be detected by means of advanced, time-domain spectroscopic techniques. In this letter we introduce a novel kind of modulati…

physics.optics2021★ 15 cited

Photonic Frequency Conversion of OFDM Microwave Signals in a Wavelength-Scale Optomechanical Cavity

Laura Mercadé, Maria Morant, Amadeu Griol +2

Optomechanical (OM) cavities enable coupling of near-infrared light and GHz-frequency acoustic waves in wavelength-scale volumes. When driven in the phonon lasing regime, an OM cav…

physics.optics2021

Room-temperature silicon platform for GHz-frequency nano-electro-opto-mechanical systems

D. Navarro-Urrios, M. F. Colombano, G. Arregui +7

Nano-electro-opto-mechanical systems enable the synergistic coexistence of electrical, mechanical, and optical signals on a chip to realize new functions. Most of the technology pl…

physics.app-ph2021

Thermal properties of nanocrystalline silicon nanobeams

Jeremie Maire, Emigdio Chavez-Angel, Guillermo Arregui +7

Controlling thermal energy transfer at the nanoscale has become critically important in many applications and thermal properties since it often limits device performance. In this w…

physics.optics2020

Injection locking in an optomechanical coherent phonon source

Guillermo Arregui, Martin Facundo Colombano, Jérémie Maire +6

Spontaneous locking of the phase of a coherent phonon source to an external reference is demonstrated in an optomechanical oscillator based on a self-triggered free-carrier/tempera…

physics.app-ph2020★ 11 cited

High frequency mechanical excitation of a silicon nanostring with piezoelectric aluminum nitride layers

A. Pitanti, T. Makkonen, M. F. Colombano +8

A strong trend for quantum based technologies and applications follows the avenue of combining different platforms to exploit their complementary technological and functional advan…

physics.optics2019★ 57 cited

Microwave generation and frequency comb in a silicon optomechanical cavity with a full phononic bandgap

Laura Mercadé, Leopoldo L. Martín, Amadeu Griol +2

Cavity optomechanics has become a powerful tool to manipulate mechanical motion via optical fields. When driving an optomechanical cavity with blue-detuned laser the mechanical mot…

physics.app-ph2019

Properties of Nanocrystalline Silicon Probed by Optomechanics

Daniel Navarro-Urrios, Martin F. Colombano, Jeremie Maire +13

Nanocrystalline materials exhibit properties that can differ substantially from those of their single crystal counterparts. As such, they provide ways to enhance and optimise their…

physics.optics2018★ 83 cited

Synchronization of optomechanical cavities by mechanical interaction

M. F. Colombano, G. Arregui, N. E. Capuj +7

The synchronization of coupled oscillators is a phenomenon found throughout nature. Mechanical oscillators are paradigmatic among such systems, but realising them at the nanoscale…

physics.optics2018★ 11 cited

Optical modulation of coherent phonon emission in optomechanical cavities

J. Maire, N. E. Capuj, M. F. Colombano +4

Optomechanical structures are well suited to study photon-phonon interactions, and they also turn out to be potential building blocks for phononic circuits and quantum computing. I…

physics.optics2018★ 12 cited

Nanocrystalline silicon optomechanical cavities

D. Navarro-Urrios, N. E. Capuj, J. Maire +9

Silicon on insulator photonics has offered a versatile platform for the recent development of integrated optomechanical circuits. However, there are some constraints such as the hi…

physics.optics2016★ 128 cited

Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in an optomechanical beam

D. Navarro-Urrios, N. E. Capuj, M. F. Colombano +6

Optical non-linearities, such as thermo-optic effects and free-carrier-dispersion, are often considered as undesired effects in silicon-based resonators and, more specifically, opt…

physics.optics2016★ 38 cited

Experimental measurement of plasmonic nanostructures embedded in silicon waveguide gaps

Alba Espinosa-Soria, Amadeu Griol, Alejandro Martínez

In this work, we report numerical simulations and experiments of the optical response of a gold nanostrip embedded in a silicon strip waveguide gap at telecom wavelengths. We show…

physics.optics2015★ 43 cited

Universal method for the synthesis of arbitrary polarization states radiated by a nanoantenna

Francisco J. Rodriguez-Fortuno, Daniel Puerto, Amadeu Griol +3

Optical nanoantennas efficiently convert confined optical energy into free-space radiation. The polarization of the emitted radiation depends mainly on nanoantenna shape, so it bec…

physics.optics2014★ 54 cited

A self-stabilized coherent phonon source driven by optical forces

Daniel Navarro-Urrios, Nestor E. Capuj, Jordi Gomis-Bresco +5

Optical forces can set tiny objects into states of coherent mechanical oscillation, also known as mechanical or phonon lasing. We present a novel pumping mechanism in an opto-mecha…

physics.optics2014★ 182 cited

A 1D Optomechanical crystal with a complete phononic band gap

J. Gomis-Bresco, D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Oudich +9

Recent years have witnessed the boom of cavity optomechanics, which exploits the confinement and coupling of optical and mechanical waves at the nanoscale. Amongst their physical i…