Project description
A single material for both photon source and transmission medium
Integrated quantum photonics is pivotal for advancing quantum technologies from the laboratory to real-world applications. Photonic circuits rely on components such as single-photon emitters, waveguides and beam splitters to process quantum signals. To minimise circuit size and energy consumption, photonic circuits should integrate a large number of components on a single chip. However, finding a single material that can be used as a single-photon emitter and a medium for photon transmission is challenging. The EIC-funded VALERIA project aims to use nanostructured van der Waals crystals to create a single-material platform for realising on-chip photonic quantum devices. The ultimate goal is to fabricate a device from a single crystal that integrates single-photon emitters with photonic components, enabling compact and efficient quantum photonic devices.
Objective
Integrated quantum photonics is pivotal for the implementation of quantum technologies and their transition from a laboratory to a real-life context. The building blocks of a photonic circuit may comprise one or more single photon emitters (SPEs) and diverse components, such as waveguides, beam splitters, interferometers etc. required for steering and processing the quantum signals produced by the sources. In order to minimise the circuit size and energy consumption, photonic circuits should integrate as many components as possible on a same chip. Currently, it is extremely challenging finding a single material that can be used both as SPE and medium in which the single photons are transmitted. The long-term vision of VALERIA is the achievement of a single-material platform for the realisation of on-chip photonic quantum devices exploiting the nanostructurisation of van der Waals crystals. Our final goal will be the fabrication of a device made of a single non-centrosymmetric transition metal dichalcogenide bulk crystal embedding site-controlled SPEs deterministically integrated with photonic crystal cavities and coupled to electric-field configurable waveguides/beamsplitters.
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01
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00185 Roma
Italy
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