Silicon photonics articles within Nature Physics

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  • News & Views |

    Light travels through disordered media on a random path that is hard to control. A comprehensive study has now shown that optical energy can be deposited at a desired depth in a disordered waveguide by injecting a light field with a particular shape.

    • Oluwafemi S. Ojambati

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    Defects in the crystal lattice of silicon carbide prove to be a useful room-temperature source of non-classical light.

    • Igor Aharonovich
    •  & Milos Toth

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    Defects in silicon carbide can produce continuous-wave microwaves at room temperature. Spectroscopic analysis indicates a photoinduced inversion of the population in the spin ground states, which makes the defects a potential route to stimulated amplification of microwave radiation.

    • H. Kraus
    • , V. A. Soltamov
    •  & G. V. Astakhov

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    In quantum control there is an inherent tension between high fidelity requirements and the need for speed to avoid decoherence. A direct comparison of quantum control protocols at these two extremes indicates where the sweet spot may lie.

    • Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

  • News & Views |

    Brillouin scattering of light is now shown to attenuate the Brownian motion of microscopic acoustic resonators. This electrostrictive phenomenon could be a useful complement to the ponderomotive and photothermal effects that can optically control optomechanical systems.

    • Ivan Favero

  • Letter |

    A novel mechanism for cooling tiny mechanical resonators is now demonstrated. Inelastic scattering of light from phonons in an electrostrictive material attenuates the Brownian motion of the mechanical mode.

    • Gaurav Bahl
    • , Matthew Tomes
    •  & Tal Carmon

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