Lithium aluminosilicate glass-ceramics for low-temperature anodic sealing of MEMS sensors

The results of a study of the anodic bonding parameters of transparent glass-ceramics based on lithium aluminosilicates which are promising as structural materials of MEMS and MOEMS sensors are presented. A comparison of the optical transmittance of these materials and classical for MEMS industry glasses has been carried out. The glass-ceramics electrical conductivity in a wide temperature range has been measured. The procedure of hermetic sealing of glass-ceramics by the anodic bonding at temperatures of 150 – 250 °C has been worked out. A prototype of glass-ceramic atomic cell has been fabricated.

Nonlinear Spectral Properties of Elastic Waves Propagating Along a Pantographic Metamaterial With Local Inertia Amplifiers

Pantographic mechanisms can be introduced in the cellular periodic microstructure of architected metamaterials to achieve functional effects of local inertia amplification. The paper presents a one-dimensional pantographic metamaterial, characterized by an inertially amplified tetra-atomic cell. An internally constrained two-degrees-of-freedom model is formulated to describe the undamped free propagation of harmonic waves in the weakly nonlinear regime. A general asymptotic approach is employed to analytically determine the linear and nonlinear dispersion properties. Analytical, although asymptotically approximate, functions are obtained for the nonlinear wavefrequencies and waveforms, which show significant nonlinear effects including softening/hardening bending of the backbone curves and synclastic/anticlastic curvatures of the invariant manifolds.

High-performance cavity-enhanced quantum memory with warm atomic cell

High-performance quantum memory for quantized states of light is a prerequisite building block of quantum information technology. Despite great progresses of optical quantum memories based on interactions of light and atoms, physical features of these memories still can not satisfy the requirement for applications in practical quantum information systems, since all of them suffer from trade off between memory efficiency and excess noise. Here, we report a high-performance cavity-enhanced electromagnetically-induced-transparency memory with warm atomic cell in which a scheme of optimizing the spatial and temporal modes based on the time-reversal approach is applied. A quantum memory with the efficiency up to 78 + 1% and the noise level close to quantum noise limit has been experimentally achieved. The realized quantum memory platform has been capable of preserving quantized optical states, and thus is ready to be applied in quantum information systems, such as distributed quantum logic gates and quantum-enhanced atomic magnetometry.