Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Luis Costa, Zhongwen Zhan, Alireza Marandi, , | Summary: Simultaneously sensing and resolving the position of measurands along an optical fiber enables numerous opportunities, especially for application in environments where massive sensor deployment is not feasible. Despite significant progress in techniques based on round-trip time-of-flight measurements, the […]

Kavli Affiliate: Kerry J. Vahala | First 5 Authors: Joel Guo, Charles A. McLemore, Chao Xiang, Dahyeon Lee, Lue Wu | Summary: Lasers with hertz-level linewidths on timescales up to seconds are critical for precision metrology, timekeeping, and manipulation of quantum systems. Such frequency stability typically relies on bulk-optic lasers and reference cavities, where increased […]

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Semih Taniker, Vincenzo Costanza, Paolo Celli, Chiara Daraio, | Summary: We propose the realization of capacitive temperature sensors based on the concept of displacement amplification. Our design features two high coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) metallic layers separated by a low-CTE dielectric layer; conductive and dielectric layers […]

Kavli Affiliate: Sunil Golwala | First 5 Authors: Peter S. Barry, Clarence. C. Chang, Sunil Golwala, Erik Shirokoff, | Summary: The kinetic inductance detector (KID) is a versatile and scalable detector technology with a wide range of applications. These superconducting detectors offer significant advantages: simple and robust fabrication, intrinsic multiplexing that will allow thousands of […]

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Luis Ledezma, Arkadev Roy, Luis Costa, Ryoto Sekine, Robert Gray | Summary: Widely-tunable coherent sources in nanophotonics are desirable for a multitude of applications ranging from communications to sensing. The mid-infrared spectral region (wavelengths beyond 2 $mu$m) is particularly important because of applications related to molecular spectroscopy. […]

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Luis Ledezma, Arkadev Roy, Luis Costa, Ryoto Sekine, Robert Gray | Summary: Widely-tunable coherent sources in nanophotonics are desirable for a multitude of applications ranging from communications to sensing. The mid-infrared spectral region (wavelengths beyond 2 $mu$m) is particularly important for applications relying on molecular spectroscopy. Among […]

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Luis Ledezma, Arkadev Roy, Luis Costa, Ryoto Sekine, Robert Gray | Summary: Widely-tunable coherent sources are desirable in nanophotonics for a multitude of applications ranging from communications to sensing. The mid-infrared spectral region (wavelengths beyond 2 $mu$m) is particularly important for applications relying on molecular spectroscopy. Among […]

Kavli Affiliate: Harry Atwater | First 5 Authors: Komron Shayegan, Bo Zhao, Yonghwi Kim, Shanhui Fan, Harry Atwater | Summary: Nonreciprocal elements are a vital building block of electrical and optical systems. In the infrared regime, there is a particular interest in structures that break reciprocity because their thermal absorptive (and emissive) properties should not […]

Kavli Affiliate: Harry Atwater | First 5 Authors: Komron Shayegan, Bo Zhao, Yonghwi Kim, Shanhui Fan, Harry Atwater | Summary: Nonreciprocal elements are a vital building block of electrical and optical systems. In the infrared regime, there is a particular interest in structures that break reciprocity because their thermal absorptive (and emissive) properties should not […]

Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib | First 5 Authors: Jeff Delaune, Jacob Izraelevitz, Samuel Sirlin, David Sternberg, Louis Giersch | Summary: Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery (MAHD) is a new Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) architecture to enable in situ mobility for Mars science at lower cost than previous missions. It uses a jetpack to slow down a […]