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20022023
most citedMicrowave-induced thermal escape in Josephson junctions

55 citations · 651 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Design and simulation of a transmon qubit chip for Axion detection

Roberto Moretti, Hervè Atsè Corti, Danilo Labranca +54

Quantum Sensing is a rapidly expanding research field that finds one of its applications in Fundamental Physics, as the search for Dark Matter. Devices based on superconducting qub…

physics.optics2023★ 18 cited

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…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

Stepping closer to pulsed single microwave photon detectors for axions search

A. D'Elia, A. Rettaroli, S. Tocci +23

Axions detection requires the ultimate sensitivity down to the single photon limit. In the microwave region this corresponds to energies in the yJ range. This extreme sensitivity h…

physics.optics2022★ 12 cited

THz optical beat-note detection with a fast Hot Electron Bolometer operating up to 31 GHz

G. Torrioli, A. Forrer, M. Beck +10

We study the performance of an hot-electron bolometer (HEB) operating at THz frequencies based on superconducting niobium nitride films. We report on the voltage response of the de…

physics.optics2022

THz optical solitons from dispersion-compensated antenna-coupled planarized ring quantum cascade lasers

Paolo Micheletti, Urban Senica, Andres Forrer +6

Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) constitute an intriguing opportunity for the production of on-chip optical Dissipative Kerr Solitons (DKS): self-organized optical waves which can trav…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

Didier Barret, Vincent Albouys, Jan-Willem den Herder +296

The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer, studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory, a versatile ob…