Light-superconducting interference devices

Recently, we have proposed the half-Josephson laser (HJL): a device that combines lasing with superconducting leads, providing a locking between the optical phase and the superconducting phase difference between the leads. In this work, we propose and investigate two setups derived from a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID),...

The Half-Josephson Laser: Essentials and Applications

In this dissertation, we study a novel class of laser devices, referred to as half-Josephson lasers (HJL). Here, lasing at half the Josephson frequency is induced by a parametric instability, resulting from an oscillating supercurrent flowing through a Josephson junction that contains quantum emitters. The device combines the electronic...

Lasing at half the Josephson frequency with exponentially long coherence times

We describe a superconducting device capable of producing laser light in the visible range at half the Josephson generation frequency, with the optical phase of the light locked to the superconducting phase difference. An earlier proposed device, the so-called “half-Josephson laser” [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 073901 (2011)], cannot provide long...

Proposal for an Optical Laser Producing Light at Half the Josephson Frequency

We describe a superconducting device capable of producing laser light in the visible range at half of the Josephson generation frequency with the optical phase of the light locked to the superconducting phase difference. It consists of two single-level quantum dots embedded in a p-n semiconducting heterostructure and surrounded by a cavity...

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