Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of California

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchotron Desy

Mina Bionta

Karl Kimon Berggren

Phillip Donald Keathley

Marco Turchetti

Oguzhan Murat Onen

Brenden Butters

Yujia Yang

Franz X Kaertner

William Putnam

Felix Ritzkowsky

Dario Cattozzo Mor

Some aspects are directed to an all-on-chip, optoelectronic device for sampling arbitrary, low-energy, near-infrared waveforms under ambient conditions. This solid-state integrated detector uses optical-field-driven electron emission from resonant nanoantennas to achieve petahertz-level switching speeds by generating on-chip attosecond electron burst. Also disclosed is a cross-correlation technique based on perturbation of local electron field emission rates that allows for the full characterization of arbitrary electric fields down to 1 femtojoule, and/or on the order of 500 kV/m, using plasmonic nanoantennas.

Integrated optical field sampling platform

A device that is a combination of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector and a superconducting multi-level memory. These devices can be used to count a number of photons impinging on the device through single-photon to single-flux conversion. Electrical characterization of the device demonstrates single-flux quantum (SFQ) separated states. Optical measurements using attenuated laser pulses with different mean photon number, pulse energies and repetition rates are shown to differentiate single-photon detection from other possible phenomena, such as multiphoton detection and thermal activation. Array devices and methods are also discussed.

Single-photon single-flux coupled detectors

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Mina Bionta