Contact: Aristide Lemaître
C2N has a long experience in the growth of III-V semiconductor heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). This family of materials is highly versatile for shaping and manipulating waves of different nature such as photons, phonons, electrons, plasmons, polaritons (mixed light-matter particules). To that end, within the POEM platform, we grow active materials, quantum wells or quantum dots, embedded inside structures for wave confinement, like ridge waveguides, Bragg mirrors and microcavities. Various functionalities may be sought for, such as high quality factor cavities for quantum optics or opto-mechanics, or ultra-short periods superlattices for THz acoustics phonons.
We provide here a few examples of actual and past projects mostly developed in collaboration with other teams in France or worldwide. We enjoy very much collaborating on new projects. If interested just drop us an email! Among our successful collaborations we have a long collaboration with the GOSS group at C2N, for which we provide most of their epitaxial heterostructures.
Chiral emission induced by optical Zeeman effect in polariton micropillars, B. Real, N. Carlon Zambon, P. St-Jean, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, L. Le Gratiet, A. Harouri, S. Ravets, J. Bloch, and A. Amo, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 043161 (2021)
Anyonic Two-Photon Statistics with a Semiconductor Chip, S. Francesconi, S. Raymond, N. Fabre, A. Lemaître, M. I. Amanti, P. Milman, F. Baboux, and S. Ducci, ACS Photonics 8, 2764 (2021)
A multiphysics model for ultra-high frequency optomechanical resonators optically actuated and detected in the oscillating mode S. Sbarra, P. E. Allain, S. Suffit, A. Lemaître, and I. Favero, APL Photonics 6, 086111 (2021)
Flexible entanglement-distribution network with an AlGaAs chip for secure communications, F. Appas, F. Baboux, M. I. Amanti, A. Lemaître, F. Boitier, E. Diamanti & S. Ducci, npj Quantum Information, 7, 118 (2021)
Electro-Optomechanical Modulation Instability in a Semiconductor Resonator, P.-E. Allain, B. Guha, C. Baker, D. Parrain, A. Lemaître, G. Leo, and I. Favero, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 243901 (2021)
Bright Polarized Single-Photon Source Based on a Linear Dipole, S. E. Thomas, M. Billard, N. Coste, S. C. Wein, Priya, H. Ollivier, O. Krebs, L. Tazaïrt, A. Harouri, A. Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, C. Anton, L. Lanco, N. Somaschi, J. C. Loredo, and P. Senellart, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 233601 (2021)
Topological optical and phononic interface mode by simultaneous band inversion, O. Ortiz, P. Priya, A. Rodriguez, A. Lemaitre, M. Esmann, and N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, Optica 8, 598 (2021)
Measuring Topological Invariants in a Polaritonic Analog of Graphene, P. St-Jean, A. Dauphin, P. Massignan, B. Real, O. Jamadi, M. Milicevic, A. Lemaître, A. Harouri, L. Le Gratiet, I. Sagnes, S. Ravets, J. Bloch, and A. Amo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127403 (2021)
All-Optical Beam Steering Using the Polariton Lighthouse Effect, S. M. H. Luk, H. Vergnet, O. Lafont, P. Lewandowski, N. H. Kwong, E. Galopin, A. Lemaitre, P. Roussignol, J. Tignon, S. Schumacher, R. Binder, and E. Baudin, ACS Photonics 8, 449 (2021)
Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference with Imperfect Single Photon Sources, H. Ollivier, S. E. Thomas, S. C. Wein, I. Maillette de Buy Wenniger, N. Coste, J. C. Loredo, N. Somaschi, A. Harouri, A. Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, L. Lanco, C. Simon, C. Anton, O. Krebs, and P. Senellart, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063602 (2021)
Cavity optomechanics with a laser-engineered optical trap, P. Sesin, S. Anguiano, A. E. Bruchhausen, A. Lemaître, and A. Fainstein, Phys. Rev. B 103, L081301(2021)
Quantitative Assessment of Carrier Density by Cathodoluminescence. I. GaAs Thin Films and Modeling, H.-L. Chen, A. Scaccabarozzi, R. De Lépinau, F. Oehler, A. Lemaître, J.-C. Harmand, A. Cattoni, and S. Collin, Phys. Rev. Applied 15, 024006 (2021)
Fiber-based angular filtering for high-resolution Brillouin spectroscopy in the 20-300 GHz frequency range, A. Rodriguez, P. Priya, O. Ortiz, P. Senellart, C. Gomez-Carbonell, A. Lemaître, M. Esmann, and N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, Optics Express, 29, 2637 (2021)
Semi-Dirac Transport and Anisotropic Localization in Polariton Honeycomb Lattices, B. Real, O. Jamadi, M. Milićević, N. Pernet, P. St-Jean, T. Ozawa, G. Montambaux, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, L. Le Gratiet, A. Harouri, S. Ravets, J. Bloch, and A. Amo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 186601 (2020)
Spin–orbit torque switching of a ferromagnet with picosecond electrical pulses, K. Jhuria, J. Hohlfeld, A. Pattabi, E. Martin, A. Y. Arriola Córdova, X. Shi, R. Lo Conte, S. Petit-Watelot, J.-C. Rojas-Sanchez, G. Malinowski, S. Mangin, A. Lemaître, M. Hehn, J. Bokor, R. B. Wilson & J. Gorchon, Nature Electronics 3, 680 (2020)
Deterministic assembly of a charged-quantum-dot–micropillar cavity device, P. Hilaire, C. Millet, J. C. Loredo, C. Antón, A. Harouri, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, N. Somaschi, O. Krebs, P. Senellart, and L. Lanco, Phys. Rev. B 102, 195402
Force Sensing with an Optomechanical Self-Oscillator, B. Guha, P.-E. Allain, A. Lemaître, G. Leo, and I. Favero, Phys. Rev. Applied 14, 024079 (2020)
Direct observation of photonic Landau levels and helical edge states in strained honeycomb lattices, O. Jamadi, E. Rozas, G. Salerno, M. Milićević, T. Ozawa, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, L. Le Gratiet, A. Harouri, I. Carusotto, J. Bloch & A. Amo, Light: Science & Applications 9, 144 (2020)
Parametric instability in coupled nonlinear microcavities, N. Carlon Zambon, S. R. K. Rodriguez, A. Lemaître, A. Harouri, L. Le Gratiet, I. Sagnes, P. St-Jean, S. Ravets, A. Amo, and J. Bloch, Phys. Rev. A 102, 023526 (2020)
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