High-Order Dispersion Solitons and Topological Photonics in Silicon
Hosted By: Nonlinear Optics Technical Group
01 July 2021 11:00 - 12:00
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC - 05:00)Join the OSA Nonlinear Optics Technical Group for this webinar featuring Andrea Blanco-Redondo, head of the silicon photonics department at Nokia Bell Labs, reviewing their work on nonlinear and topological photonics in silicon. In the first part of the webinar, Dr. Blanco-Redondo will unveil their latest results on the recently discovered pure-quartic solitons, including their demonstration of the first pure-quartic soliton laser and its new energy-width scaling law. Dr. Blanco-Redondo will also provide new insights on how to leverage high-order dispersion in nonlinear applications.
In the second part, the webinar will cover recent developments in topological quantum photonics with emphasis on our experimental demonstration of nonlinearly-generated and topologically protected photon pairs and path-entangled biphoton states in silicon waveguide arrays. Finally, Dr. Blanco-Redondo will detail their latest experiments unveiling entanglement between topologically distinct modes, highlighting topology as an entanglement degree of freedom.
Subject Matter Level: Intermediate - Assumes basic knowledge of the topic
What You Will Learn:
- What are pure-quartic solitons, how to generate them in integrated photonics and fiber platforms, and, more generally, how to leverage high-order dispersion in nonlinear applications such as ultrafast lasers or frequency combs
- How lattice topology can protect quantum states of light and contribute to generate more complex entangled states in the context of silicon photonics quantum platforms
Who Should Attend:
- Scientists interested in nonlinear and topological photonics
- Researchers working in integrated photonics and ultrafast fiber lasers
- Scientists with an interest on silicon photonics quantum experiments
About the Presenter: Andrea Blanco-Redondo, Nokia Bell Labs
Andrea is the Head of the Silicon Photonics department at Nokia Bell Labs in New Jersey, USA, where she develops new concepts and applications in nonlinear integrated optics and topological quantum photonics. From 2015 to 2019, she was the Professor Harry Messel Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the School of Physics of the University of Sydney, Australia. From 2007 to 2015 she was a photonics researcher and a project manager with the Aerospace and Telecom departments of Tecnalia, Spain. She got her PhD in photonics at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, in 2014 and her MSc in Electrical Engineering at the University of Valladolid, Spain in 2007. Andrea is OSA Director at Large, Member of the OSA Finance Council, and Associate Editor with OSA Continuum. She is the recipient of the 2016 Geoff Opat Award of the Australian Optical Society to the top Australian Early Career Researcher, and of one of the two 2014 Ada Byron Award to the top Women in Technology in Spain.