Sub-wavelength photonics and Nano-Objects

SOUS-AXE "ACTIVE AND NONLINEAR PHOTONIC STRUCTURES"

Our activities constitute a quite unique combination of integrated quantum platforms, investigation of fundamental light-matter interaction at play, and frontend concepts for quantum devices and protocols.

Thématiques de recherche :

Dynamics in microlasers with integrated saturable absorber

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Single photon sources generating single photon wavepackets in a pure quantum state are key ingredient for optical quantum technologies for a wide range of applications ranging from quantum computing, quantum network and sensing

Exciton polaritons in arrays of microcavities

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A limitation of optical quantum technologies is the probabilistic operation of two quantum bit gates. To develop deterministic photon-photon gates, optical nonlinearities at the level of a single photon are needed.

Photonic crystal coupled nanolasers - bifurcations and photon statistics

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Single photon sources generating single photon wavepackets in a pure quantum state are key ingredient for optical quantum technologies for a wide range of applications ranging from quantum computing, quantum network and sensing.

Spin-based quantum memory

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The spin of a carrier trapped in a quantum dot can store quantum information over microseconds. By inserting such a spin in an optical cavity, we have built an efficient interface between this spin stationary qubit and a photon.