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Silicon-germanium photo-receiver for mainstream telecom-waveband networks on a chip
Researchers at C2N, in co-operation with CEA LETI and STMicroelectronics, have demonstrated a power-efficient and high-speed silicon-germanium avalanche photo-receiver. The device is fully compatible with accessible semiconductor technology and fiber-optic links operated at telecom waveband standard. Owing to …
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Mesoscopic limit cycles in coupled nanolasers under strong fluctuations
Using two coupled nanolasers, researchers have demonstrated the existence of limit cycles with only a thousand photons in the cavities, in spite of the strong spontaneous emission quantum noise influencing the system dynamics. Any freely decaying dissipative dynamical …
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The cascade to criticality
Researchers at C2N (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay), PhLAM laboratory (CNRS/Univ. de Lille) and ETH Zurich have unveiled a novel mechanism describing how criticality - a phase in which waves are neither extended nor localized but in a so-called “critical state” - …
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Amplifying a weak signal by manipulating the nonlinear resonance in a nano-electromechanical resonator
A team of researchers at C2N has experimentally demonstrated an enhancement by more than an order of magnitude of a weak electrical signal thanks to nano-electromechanical resonator. Their results, supported by theory, illustrate a general mechanism which potentially applies …
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Molecular ‘fingerprinting’ technology that fits on a fingertip
Article published on the European Commission website CORDIS, about the ERC Starting Grant project « Chip-scale INtegrated Photonics for the mid-Infra REd » (INsPIRE), led by Delphine Marris-Morini, Professor at Université Paris-Saclay and researcher at C2N, that ended …
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