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Philipp Hurdax

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Ion trap on borosilicate substrate with integrated femtosecond-laser-written waveguide

We present an ion-trap platform on borosilicate glass with an integrated femtosecond-laser-written waveguide for on-chip light delivery. The optical layer is physically separated from the electrode substrate and bonded atop the trap, remaining compatible with silicon-based integration. We engineer single-mode low-loss guidance at 729 nm with tunable mode-field diameter and achieve low-loss curved waveguides down to a radius of curvature of 6 mm. We also extend single-mode operation to a wavelength of 405 nm. The fabrication process is compatible with the industrial fabrication of a single-metal-layer surface-electrode trap, including active fiber alignment and bonding. We validate the platform in a cryogenic trapped-ion system with $^{40}$Ca$^+$, demonstrating trapping, shuttling the ion to a zone in front of the waveguide, and coherent operations driven by 729 nm light delivered through the integrated waveguide. We characterize the effect of the exposed dielectric on the ion and measure stray electric fields that show slow drift at a timescale of hours. The architecture is compatible with hybrid micro-optics (e.g. pick-and-place lenses) to realize single ion addressing and provides a robust, scalable route to integrated light delivery for trapped-ion devices.

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Femtosecond laser written waveguides in sapphire for visible light delivery

A promising solution for scalable integrated optics of trapped-ion quantum processors are curved waveguides guiding visible light within sapphire bulk material. To the best of our knowledge, no curved waveguides were investigated in sapphire so far, and no measurements of waveguides with visible light in undoped planar sapphire substrates were reported. Here, we demonstrate femtosecond laser writing of depressed cladding waveguides in sapphire. Laser parameters, such as pulse energy, pulse duration, and repetition rate, as well as waveguide geometry parameters, were optimized to guide 728 nm light. This resulted in single-mode waveguides with a propagation loss of 1.9(3) dB/cm. The investigation of curved waveguides showed a sharp increase in total loss for curvature radii below 15 mm. Our results demonstrate the potential of femtosecond laser writing as a powerful technique for creating integrated optical waveguides in the volume of sapphire substrates. Such waveguides could be a building block for integrated optics in trapped-ion quantum processors.

physics.optics