OpticaPub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1364/optica.513551
Lars Pause, Lukas Sturm, Marcel Mittenbühler, Stephan Amann, Tilman Preuschoff, Dominik Schäffner, Malte Schlosser, and Gerhard Birkl
{"title":"Supercharged two-dimensional tweezer array with more than 1000 atomic qubits","authors":"Lars Pause, Lukas Sturm, Marcel Mittenbühler, Stephan Amann, Tilman Preuschoff, Dominik Schäffner, Malte Schlosser, and Gerhard Birkl","doi":"10.1364/optica.513551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.513551","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the realization of a large-scale quantum-processing architecture surpassing the tier of 1000 atomic qubits. By tiling multiple microlens-generated tweezer arrays, each operated by an independent laser source, we can eliminate laser-power limitations in the number of allocatable qubits. Already with two separate arrays, we implement combined 2D configurations of 3000 qubit sites with a mean number of 1167(46) single-atom quantum systems. The transfer of atoms between the two arrays is achieved with high efficiency. Thus, supercharging one array designated as the quantum processing unit with atoms from the secondary array significantly increases the number of qubits and the initial filling fraction. This drastically enlarges attainable qubit cluster sizes and success probabilities allowing us to demonstrate the defect-free assembly of clusters of up to 441 qubits with persistent stabilization at a near-unity filling fraction over tens of detection cycles. The presented method substantiates neutral atom quantum information science by facilitating configurable geometries of highly scalable quantum registers with immediate application in Rydberg-state-mediated quantum simulation, fault-tolerant universal quantum computation, quantum sensing, and quantum metrology.","PeriodicalId":19515,"journal":{"name":"Optica","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139710833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OpticaPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1364/optica.505478
P. S. Jørgensen, L. Besley, A. M. Slyamov, A. Diaz, M. Guizar-Sicairos, M. Odstrčil, M. Holler, C. Silvestre, B. Chang, C. Detlefs, and J. W. Andreasen
{"title":"Hard x-ray grazing-incidence ptychography: large field-of-view nanostructure imaging with ultra-high surface sensitivity","authors":"P. S. Jørgensen, L. Besley, A. M. Slyamov, A. Diaz, M. Guizar-Sicairos, M. Odstrčil, M. Holler, C. Silvestre, B. Chang, C. Detlefs, and J. W. Andreasen","doi":"10.1364/optica.505478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.505478","url":null,"abstract":"The morphology and distribution of nanoscale structures, such as catalytic active nanoparticles and quantum dots on surfaces, have a significant impact on their function. Thus, the capability of monitoring these properties during manufacturing and operation is crucial for the development of devices that rely on such materials. We demonstrate a technique that allows highly surface-sensitive imaging of nanostructures on planar surfaces over large areas. The capabilities of hard x-ray grazing-incidence ptychography combine aspects from imaging, reflectometry, and grazing-incidence small angle scattering in providing images that cover a large field of view along the beam direction while providing high surface sensitivity. For homogeneous samples, it yields a surface profile sensitivity better than 1 nm normal to the surface, with a poorer resolution in the sample surface plane, (i.e., along the beam and transverse to the beam). Like other surface scattering methods, this technique facilitates the characterization of nanostructures across statistically significant surface areas or volumes but with additional spatial information. In this work, we present a reconstructed test object spanning <span><span style=\"color: inherit;\"><span><span>4.5</span><span style=\"width: 0.167em; height: 0em;\"></span><span style=\"width: 0.167em; height: 0em;\"></span><span>m</span><span>m</span><span style=\"margin-left: 0.267em; margin-right: 0.267em;\">×</span><span>20</span><span style=\"width: 0.167em; height: 0em;\"></span><span style=\"width: 0.167em; height: 0em;\"></span><span><span>µ</span></span><span>m</span></span></span><script type=\"math/tex\">4.5,,rm mmtimes 20,, {unicode{x00B5}}rm m</script></span> with 20 nm high topology.","PeriodicalId":19515,"journal":{"name":"Optica","volume":"305 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139688474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OpticaPub Date : 2024-01-31DOI: 10.1364/optica.488271
Liang Zhang, Chaohan Cui, Pao-Kang Chen, and Linran Fan
{"title":"Integrated-waveguide-based acousto-optic modulation with complete optical conversion","authors":"Liang Zhang, Chaohan Cui, Pao-Kang Chen, and Linran Fan","doi":"10.1364/optica.488271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.488271","url":null,"abstract":"Acousto-optic modulation in piezoelectric materials offers the efficient method to bridge electrical and optical signals. It is widely used to control optical frequencies and intensities in modern optical systems including <span><span style=\"color: inherit;\"><span><span>Q</span></span></span><script type=\"math/tex\">Q</script></span>-switch lasers, ion traps, and optical tweezers. It is also critical for emerging applications such as quantum photonics and non-reciprocal optics. Acousto-optic devices have recently been demonstrated with promising performance on integrated platforms. However, the conversion efficiency of optical signals remains low in these integrated devices. This is attributed to the significant challenge in realizing large mode overlap, long interaction length, and high power robustness at the same time. Here, we develop acousto-optic devices with gallium nitride on a sapphire substrate. The unique capability to confine both optical and acoustic fields in sub-wavelength scales without suspended structures allows efficient acousto-optic interactions over long distances under high driving power. This leads to the complete optical conversion with integrated acousto-optic modulators. With the unidirectional phase matching, we also demonstrate the non-reciprocal propagation of optical fields with isolation ratios above 10 dB. This work provides a robust and efficient acousto-optic platform, opening new opportunities for optical signal processing, quantum transduction, and non-magnetic optical isolation.","PeriodicalId":19515,"journal":{"name":"Optica","volume":"290 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139655712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OpticaPub Date : 2024-01-30DOI: 10.1364/optica.510789
Eduardo B. Molinero, Anushree Datta, M. J. Calderón, E. Bascones, and Rui E. F. Silva
{"title":"High-harmonic generation with a twist: all-optical characterization of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene","authors":"Eduardo B. Molinero, Anushree Datta, M. J. Calderón, E. Bascones, and Rui E. F. Silva","doi":"10.1364/optica.510789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.510789","url":null,"abstract":"If we stack up two layers of graphene while changing their respective orientation by some twisting angle, we end up with a strikingly different system when compared to single-layer graphene. For a very specific value of this twist angle, known as <i>magic angle</i>, twisted bilayer graphene displays a unique phase diagram that cannot be found in other systems. Recently, high-harmonic generation spectroscopy has been successfully applied to elucidate the electronic properties of quantum materials. The purpose of the present work is to exploit the nonlinear optical response of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene to unveil its electronic properties. We show that the band structure of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is imprinted onto its high-harmonic spectrum. Specifically, we observe a drastic decrease of harmonic signal as we approach the magic angle. Our results show that high-harmonic generation can be used as a spectroscopy tool for measuring the twist angle and also the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene, paving the way for an all-optical characterization of moiré materials.","PeriodicalId":19515,"journal":{"name":"Optica","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139655710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OpticaPub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.1364/optica.506813
Xueji Wang, Ziyi Yang, Fanglin Bao, Tyler Sentz, and Zubin Jacob
{"title":"Spinning metasurface stack for spectro-polarimetric thermal imaging","authors":"Xueji Wang, Ziyi Yang, Fanglin Bao, Tyler Sentz, and Zubin Jacob","doi":"10.1364/optica.506813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.506813","url":null,"abstract":"Spectro-polarimetric imaging in the long-wave infrared (LWIR) region plays a crucial role in applications from night vision and machine perception to trace gas sensing and thermography. However, the current generation of spectro-polarimetric LWIR imagers suffers from limitations in size, spectral resolution, and field of view (FOV). While meta-optics-based strategies for spectro-polarimetric imaging have been explored in the visible spectrum, their potential for thermal imaging remains largely unexplored. In this work, we introduce an approach for spectro-polarimetric decomposition by combining large-area stacked meta-optical devices with advanced computational imaging algorithms. The co-design of a stack of spinning dispersive metasurfaces along with compressive sensing and dictionary learning algorithms allows simultaneous spectral and polarimetric resolution without the need for bulky filter wheels or interferometers. Our spinning-metasurface-based spectro-polarimetric stack is compact (<span><span style=\"color: inherit;\"><span><span><span style=\"margin-left: 0.333em; margin-right: 0.333em;\"><</span></span><span style=\"width: 0.278em; height: 0em;\"></span><span><span>10</span></span><span style=\"margin-left: 0.267em; margin-right: 0.267em;\">×</span><span><span>10</span></span><span style=\"margin-left: 0.267em; margin-right: 0.267em;\">×</span><span><span>10</span></span><span style=\"width: 0.278em; height: 0em;\"></span><span><span>c</span><span>m</span></span></span></span><script type=\"math/tex\">{lt};{10} times {10} times {10};{rm cm}</script></span>) and robust, and it offers a wide field of view (20.5°). We show that the spectral resolving power of our system substantially enhances performance in machine learning tasks such as material classification, a challenge for conventional panchromatic thermal cameras. Our approach represents a significant advance in the field of thermal imaging for a wide range of applications including heat-assisted detection and ranging (HADAR).","PeriodicalId":19515,"journal":{"name":"Optica","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139468516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OpticaPub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1364/optica.510591
M. Hamrouni, M. Jankowski, Alexander Hwang, N. Jornod, J. Mishra, H. Stokowski, Timothy McKenna, Carsten Langrock, Thomas Südmeyer, Amir Safavi-Naeini, M. Fejer
{"title":"Efficient parametric downconversion by gain-trapped solitons","authors":"M. Hamrouni, M. Jankowski, Alexander Hwang, N. Jornod, J. Mishra, H. Stokowski, Timothy McKenna, Carsten Langrock, Thomas Südmeyer, Amir Safavi-Naeini, M. Fejer","doi":"10.1364/optica.510591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.510591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19515,"journal":{"name":"Optica","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139444941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OpticaPub Date : 2024-01-05DOI: 10.1364/optica.510202
Han Gao, Haifeng Hu, Qiwen Zhan
{"title":"Generation and Applications of Spectral-Spatially Correlated Principal Mode","authors":"Han Gao, Haifeng Hu, Qiwen Zhan","doi":"10.1364/optica.510202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.510202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19515,"journal":{"name":"Optica","volume":"29 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139381925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OpticaPub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1364/optica.504397
Matan Iluz, Kobi Cohen, Jacob Kheireddine, Yoav Hazan, Amir Rosenthal, Shai Tsesses, and Guy Bartal
{"title":"Unveiling the evolution of light within photonic integrated circuits","authors":"Matan Iluz, Kobi Cohen, Jacob Kheireddine, Yoav Hazan, Amir Rosenthal, Shai Tsesses, and Guy Bartal","doi":"10.1364/optica.504397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.504397","url":null,"abstract":"Silicon photonics leverages mature semiconductor technology to produce cost-effective and high-performance components for various applications in data centers, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. While the geometry of photonic integrated circuits can be characterized by existing means, their optimal and accurate performance requires detailed characterization of the light propagating within them. Here we demonstrate the first, to our knowledge, direct visualization of the light as it travels inside photonic integrated circuits. We employ the natural nonlinear optical properties of silicon to directly map the electric field of the waves guided inside the integrated circuits, characterizing waveguides and multimode splitters while extracting various parameters of the device—all in real-time and in a noninvasive manner. Our approach for visualizing light inside photonic circuits is the only solution directly providing such information without any overhead or penalty, potentially making it a crucial component for the characterization of photonic circuitry, toward their improved design, fabrication, and optimization.","PeriodicalId":19515,"journal":{"name":"Optica","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139101413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}