Enabling light coupling between nanowires and low refractive index contrast optical waveguides towards scalable quantum circuitsShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVIII, SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng , 2024, article id 1288913Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
A primary constraint in the major photonic integration platform of Silica-on-Silicon, especially when combined with fabrication approaches like Direct Laser Writing is the optical waveguides' low refractive index contrast, leading thus to limitations for efficient coupling with currently available state-of-the-art single photon emitters such as semiconductor nanowires with quantum dots (NWQD). We propose and demonstrate a novel approach to drastically enhance the light coupling between silica based Laser-written channel waveguides and NWQDs, by incorporating an optical microsphere in their intermediate space. It is demonstrated that the induced photonic nanojet action of a suitably designed microsphere illuminated by the NWQD, excites efficiently the channel waveguide's modes and can enable light coupling to a degree even above 50%. The proposed method is reasonably robust to imperfections and misalignments and could be implemented by current state-of-the-art micro/nano patterning techniques. It is anticipated that the practical implementation of the method will allow the integration of multiple quantum emitters in silica based hybrid integrated circuits thus enabling their scalability towards for quantum computing and sensing applications.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng , 2024. article id 1288913
Keywords [en]
Microspheres, Nanowires, Photonic Nanojet, Quantum Circuits, Quantum Computing, Quantum Dots, Silica, Waveguides
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-346410DOI: 10.1117/12.3003074Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85191515752OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-346410DiVA, id: diva2:1857604
Conference
Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVIII 2024, San Francisco, United States of America, Jan 29 2024 - Feb 1 2024
Note
QC 20240530
2024-05-142024-05-142024-05-30Bibliographically approved