Simone Atzeni is giving an invited talk at Young Italian Quantum Information Science Conference (YIQIS) 2020 on Monday 28 September about ‘Structured glass for low power actuation of thermal phase shifters’.
Month: September 2020
Published paper in Optics Express on August 2020
In this work we demonstrate novel integrated-optics modulators and switches, realized in a glass substrate by femtosecond laser pulses. These devices are based on oscillating microcantilevers, machined by water-assisted laser ablation. Operation frequencies are in the range of tens of kilohertz, thus they markedly overcome the response-time limitation of other glass-based modulators, which rely on the thermo-optic effect.