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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Triangular Silicon Carbide Nanophotonic Devices for Quantum Simulators

Sridhar Majety, Victoria A. Norman, Liang Li, Miranda Bell, Pranta Saha, Marina Radulaski

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We explore applications of silicon carbide photonics in quantum simulation. We design a low-loss triangular photonic crystal molecule with embedded color centers, and explore the formation of hybridized light-matter states in this system.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2021.jtu3a.135

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