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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

On-chip integration of reconfigurable quantum photonics with superconducting photodetectors

Samuel Gyger, Julien Zichi, Lucas Schweickert, Ali W. Elshaari, Stephan Steinhauer, Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva, Armando Rastelli, Val Zwiller, Klaus D. Jöns, Carlos Errando-Herranz

Published Jan 1, 2021• 1 citation
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Abstract

Scaling up quantum optics experiments requires on-chip reconfigurable quantum photonics, but their integration with detectors is a challenge. We show microelectromechanical reconfiguration of photonic circuits with on-chip superconducting single–photon detectors and demonstrate key applications.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.fw2p.3

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