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ArticleNature communications2025

On-chip, inverse-designed active wavelength division multiplexer at THz frequencies.

Valerio Digiorgio, Urban Senica, Paolo Micheletti, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist, Giacomo Scalari

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Valerio DigiorgioInstitute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. vdigiorgio@phys.ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-8358-3595
Urban SenicaInstitute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3025-5042
Paolo MichelettiInstitute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Mattias BeckInstitute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0260-5797
Jérôme FaistInstitute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4429-7988
Giacomo ScalariInstitute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. gscalari@ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-803X

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Abstract

The development of photonic integrated components for the terahertz region has become an active and growing research field. Despite the numerous applications in this spectral range, hardware design still faces several challenges. We demonstrate an on-chip, active wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) operating at THz frequencies (> 1 THz). The WDM architecture is based on an inverse design topology optimization applied to an active quantum cascade heterostructure embedded in a double metal cavity and planarized with a polymer. Such an approach enables the fabrication of a strongly subwavelength device, with a normalized volume of V/λ

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