Spotlight on Optics

Highlighted Articles from Optica Publishing Group Journals

Panelist: Mosley

Spotlight Summary by Peter Mosley
- Hybrid waveguide scheme for silicon-based quantum photonic circuits with quantum light sources
- Generating single photons on-chip for integrated implementations of photonic quantum information processing remains challenging. Furthermore, photon-pair sources based on four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides have the...
- Photon. Res. 8(3) 235-245 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Spotlight Summary by Peter Mosley
- Generation of 300 nm bandwidth 0.5 mJ pulses near 1 μm in a single stage gas filled hollow core fiber
- High-power lasers have unlocked new regimes of strong-field physics and continue to push the boundaries of science and technology. Progress further into the petawatt range would benefit not only from more pulse energy...
- Opt. Express 25(18) 21171-21179 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Spotlight Summary by Ross Challinor and Peter Mosley
- Prospects for photon-pair generation using silicon microring resonators with two photon absorption and free carrier absorption
- Single photon sources are the subject of intense development efforts towards applications in photonic quantum technologies. One common method of heralding single photons with well-defined characteristics is through...
- OSA Continuum 3(5) 1138-1153 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF