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ArticleNanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)2024

High-fidelity and polarization-insensitive universal photonic processors fabricated by femtosecond laser writing.

Ciro Pentangelo, Niki Di Giano, Simone Piacentini, Riccardo Arpe, Francesco Ceccarelli, Andrea Crespi, Roberto Osellame

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Article in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Ciro PentangeloDipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9000-6753
Niki Di GianoDipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0263-8115
Simone PiacentiniIstituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9271-2413
Riccardo ArpeDipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Francesco CeccarelliIstituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9574-2899
Andrea CrespiDipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5352-6581
Roberto OsellameIstituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4457-9902

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Abstract

Universal photonic processors (UPPs) are fully programmable photonic integrated circuits that are key components in quantum photonics. With this work, we present a novel platform for the realization of low-loss, low-power, and high-fidelity UPPs based on femtosecond laser writing (FLW) and compatible with a large wavelength spectrum. In fact, we demonstrate different UPPs, tailored for operation at 785 nm and 1550 nm, providing similar high-level performances. Moreover, we show that standard calibration techniques applied to FLW-UPPs result in Haar random polarization-insensitive photonic transformations implemented with average amplitude fidelity as high as 0.9979 at 785 nm (0.9970 at 1550 nm), with the possibility of increasing the fidelity over 0.9990 thanks to novel optimization algorithms. Besides being the first demonstrations of polarization-insensitive UPPs, these devices show the highest level of control and reconfigurability ever reported for a FLW circuit. These qualities will be greatly beneficial to applications in quantum information processing.

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femtosecond laser writingintegrated photonicsuniversal photonic processor

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PMCPMC11501604

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