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ERC Consolidator Grants 2022 : Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Laureate for the SPRING project
Carlos Alonso Ramos, CNRS researcher at C2N, has been granted an ERC Consolidator Fellowship for the project SPRING - Silicon opto-electro-mechanics for bridging the gap between photonics and microwaves. Coherent conversion between microwave and optical photons is a …
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Quasi-deterministic nanowire growth
The vapor-solid-liquid growth of a semiconductor nanowire proceeds via the sequential nucleation and extension of biatomic monolayers (MLs) at the interface between the nanowire stem and an apical liquid catalyst nanodroplet. Controlling the length of a nanowire section to …
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Genetic optimization of Brillouin scattering gain in subwavelength-structured silicon membrane waveguides
On-chip Brillouin optomechanics has great potential for applications in communications, sensing, and quantum technologies. Tight confinement of near-infrared photons and gigahertz phonons in integrated waveguides remains a key challenge to achieving strong on-chip Brillouin gain. Here, we propose a …
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Subwavelength Control of Photons and Phonons in Release-Free Silicon Optomechanical Resonators
Integrated optomechanics finds increasingly broadening applications, requiring tight confinement of photons and phonons within nanometric-scale photonic circuits. However, most existing integrated optomechanical devices use unconventional materials or suspended structures that hinder co-integration with scalable photonic technologies. Here, we show …
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Integrated optoelectronics devices operating in the long wave infra red wavelength
Optical spectroscopy in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) range is an unambiguous way to detect environmental and toxic analytes. Therefore, mid-IR photonics has a great importance for many applications in sensing, imaging or even telecommunication. A challenging task is to make …
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