Dr Luca Sapienza

  • Affiliate (School of Engineering)

Biography

Dr Luca Sapienza is a Reader in Quantum Technologies at the James Watt School of Engineering and he is a member of the Centre for Quantum Technology of the University of Glasgow.

He is leading the Integrated Quantum Photonics research group whose activities focus on the fundamental understanding of quantum optics effects on a chip, the development of quantum and nano-photonic devices integrating single-photon emitters and the study of quantum effects in bio-molecules. 
Research activities span electromagnetic simulation, nanofabrication and optical characterisation, by means of time-resolved micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy, down to cryogenic temperatures.
Device technology is based on III-V, silicon, silicon nitride and hybrid material systems to realise photonic crystal and plasmonic waveguides, optical cavities and resonators.

Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, Luca was an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom) and he has held visiting positions at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) and at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris (France). 

Research interests

Luca is leading the Integrated Quantum Photonics research group whose activities focus on the fundamental understanding of quantum optics effects on a chip, the development of quantum and nano-photonic devices integrating single-photon emitters and the study of quantum effects in bio-molecules. 
Research activities span electromagnetic simulation, nanofabrication and optical characterisation, by means of time-resolved micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy, down to cryogenic temperatures.
Device technology is based on III-V, silicon, silicon nitride and hybrid material systems to realise photonic crystal and plasmonic waveguides, optical cavities and resonators.

Publications

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Number of items: 29.

2022

Haws, C. , Guha, B., Perez, E., Davanco, M., Song, J. D., Srinivasan, K. and Sapienza, L. (2022) Thermal release tape-assisted semiconductor membrane transfer process for hybrid photonic devices embedding quantum emitters. Materials for Quantum Technology, 2(2), 025003. (doi: 10.1088/2633-4356/ac603e)

Song, J., Melo, E. G., Guha, B., Haws, C. , Chanana, A., Sapienza, L., Alegre, T. P.M., Song, J.-D., Srinivasan, K. and Davanco, M. (2022) Nanobeam Photonic Crystal Cavities Engineered for Minimized Quantum Dot Spectral Broadening. In: CLEO: Science and Innovations 2022, San Jose, CA, United States, 15-20 May 2022, ISBN 9781957171050

Haws, C. , Perez, E., Davanco, M., Song, J. D., Srinivasan, K. and Sapienza, L. (2022) Broadband, efficient extraction of quantum light by a photonic device comprised of a metallic nano-ring and a gold back reflector. Applied Physics Letters, 120(8), 081103. (doi: 10.1063/5.0082347)

2021

Trojak, O. J., Gorsky, S., Murray, C., Sgrignuoli, F., Pinheiro, F. A., Dal Negro, L. and Sapienza, L. (2021) Cavity-enhanced light–matter interaction in Vogel-spiral devices as a platform for quantum photonics. Applied Physics Letters, 118(1), 011103. (doi: 10.1063/5.0034984)

2020

Trojak, O. J., Gorsky, S., Sgrignuoli, F., Pinheiro, F. A., Park, S.-I., Song, J. D., Dal Negro, L. and Sapienza, L. (2020) Cavity quantum electro-dynamics with solid-state emitters in aperiodic nano-photonic spiral devices. Applied Physics Letters, 117(12), 124006. (doi: 10.1063/5.0024719)

2018

Trojak, O. J., Woodhead, C., Park, S.-I., Song, J. D., Young, R. J. and Sapienza, L. (2018) Combined metallic nano-rings and solid-immersion lenses for bright emission from single InAs/GaAs quantum dots. Applied Physics Letters, 112(22), 221102. (doi: 10.1063/1.5023207)

Park, S. I., Trojak, O. J., Lee, E., Song, J. D., Kyhm, J., Han, I., Kim, J., Yi, G.-C. and Sapienza, L. (2018) GaAs droplet quantum dots with nanometer-thin capping layer for plasmonic applications. Nanotechnology, 29(20), 205602. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/aab2e1) (PMID:29488899)

2017

Davanco, M., Liu, J., Sapienza, L., Zhang, C.-Z., De Miranda Cardoso, J. V., Verma, V., Mirin, R., Nam, S. W., Liu, L. and Srinivasan, K. (2017) Heterogeneous integration for on-chip quantum photonic circuits with single quantum dot devices. Nature Communications, 8, 889. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00987-6) (PMID:29026109) (PMCID:PMC5715121)

Trojak, O. J., Crane, T. and Sapienza, L. (2017) Optical sensing with Anderson-localised light. Applied Physics Letters, 111(14), 141103. (doi: 10.1063/1.4999936)

Crane, T., Trojak, O. J., Vasco, J. P., Hughes, S. and Sapienza, L. (2017) Anderson localization of visible light on a nanophotonic chip. ACS Photonics, 4(9), pp. 2274-2280. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00517)

Sapienza, L., Liu, J., Song, J. D., Fält, S., Wegscheider, W., Badolato, A. and Srinivasan, K. (2017) Combined atomic force microscopy and photoluminescence imaging to select single InAs/GaAs quantum dots for quantum photonic devices. Scientific Reports, 7, 6205. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06566-5) (PMID:28740160) (PMCID:PMC5524751)

Trojak, O. J., Park, S. I., Song, J. D. and Sapienza, L. (2017) Metallic nanorings for broadband, enhanced extraction of light from solid-state emitters. Applied Physics Letters, 111(2), 021109. (doi: 10.1063/1.4993774)

Liu, J., Davanço, M. I., Sapienza, L., Konthasinghe, K., De Miranda Cardoso, J. V., Song, J. D., Badolato, A. and Srinivasan, K. (2017) Cryogenic photoluminescence imaging system for nanoscale positioning of single quantum emitters. Review of Scientific Instruments, 88(2), 023116. (doi: 10.1063/1.4976578)

2016

Sapienza, L., Al-Khuzheyri, R., Dada, A. , Griffiths, A., Clarke, E. and Gerardot, B. D. (2016) Magneto-optical spectroscopy of single charge-tunable InAs/GaAs quantum dots emitting at telecom wavelengths. Physical Review B, 93(15), 155301. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.155301)

2015

Sapienza, L., Davanço, M., Badolato, A. and Srinivasan, K. (2015) Nanoscale optical positioning of single quantum dots for bright and pure single-photon emission. Nature Communications, 6, 7833. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms8833) (PMID:26211442) (PMCID:PMC4525159)

2014

Javadi, A., Maibom, S., Sapienza, L., Thyrrestrup, H., García, P. D. and Lodahl, P. (2014) Statistical measurements of quantum emitters coupled to Anderson-localized modes in disordered photonic-crystal waveguides. Optics Express, 22(25), pp. 30992-31001. (doi: 10.1364/OE.22.030992) (PMID:25607048)

Agha, I., Ates, S., Sapienza, L. and Srinivasan, K. (2014) Spectral broadening and shaping of nanosecond pulses: Toward shaping of single photons from quantum emitters. Optics Letters, 39(19), pp. 5677-5680. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.005677)

2013

Sapienza, L., Malein, R. N. E., Kuklewicz, C. E., Kremer, P. E., Srinivasan, K., Griffiths, A., Clarke, E., Gong, M., Warburton, R. J. and Gerardot, B. D. (2013) Exciton fine-structure splitting of telecom-wavelength single quantum dots: Statistics and external strain tuning. Physical Review B, 88(15), 155330. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.155330)

2012

Ates, S., Sapienza, L., Davanco, M., Badolato, A. and Srinivasan, K. (2012) Bright single-photon emission from a quantum dot in a circular Bragg grating microcavity. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 18(6), pp. 1711-1721. (doi: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2193877)

Thyrrestrup, H., Smolka, S., Sapienza, L. and Lodahl, P. (2012) Statistical theory of a quantum emitter strongly coupled to Anderson-localized modes. Physical Review Letters, 108(11), 113901. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.113901)

2011

Smolka, S., Thyrrestrup, H., Sapienza, L., Lehmann, T. B., Rix, K. R., Froufe-Pérez, L. S., García, P. D. and Lodahl, P. (2011) Probing the statistical properties of Anderson localization with quantum emitters. New Journal of Physics, 13, 063044. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/063044)

2010

Jouy, P., Vasanelli, A., Todorov, Y., Sapienza, L., Colombelli, R., Gennser, U. and Sirtori, C. (2010) Intersubband electroluminescent devices operating in the strong-coupling regime. Physical Review B, 82, 045322. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.045322)

Thyrrestrup, H., Sapienza, L. and Lodahl, P. (2010) Extraction of the β-factor for single quantum dots coupled to a photonic crystal waveguide. Applied Physics Letters, 96, 231106. (doi: 10.1063/1.3446873)

Sapienza, L., Thyrrestrup, H., Stobbe, S., Garcia, P. D., Smolka, S. and Lodahl, P. (2010) Cavity quantum electrodynamics with Anderson-localized modes. Science, 327(5971), pp. 1352-1355. (doi: 10.1126/science.1185080)

2009

Sapienza, L. and Zerulla, D. (2009) Surface plasmon excitation on magnetoactive materials. Physical Review B, 79(3), 033407. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.033407)

2008

Todorov, Y., Jouy, P., Vasanelli, A., Sapienza, L., Colombelli, R., Gennser, U. and Sirtori, C. (2008) Stark-tunable electroluminescence from cavity polariton states. Applied Physics Letters, 93(17), 171105. (doi: 10.1063/1.3002302)

Sapienza, L., Vasanelli, A., Colombelli, R., Ciuti, C., Chassagneux, Y., Manquest, C., Gennser, U. and Sirtori, C. (2008) Electrically injected cavity polaritons. Physical Review Letters, 100(13), 136806. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.136806) (PMID:18517986)

2007

Sapienza, L., Vasanelli, A., Ciuti, C., Manquest, C., Sirtori, C., Colombelli, R. and Gennser, U. (2007) Photovoltaic probe of cavity polaritons in a quantum cascade structure. Applied Physics Letters, 90(20), 201101. (doi: 10.1063/1.2739308)

2003

Koskinen, P., Sapienza, L. and Manninen, M. (2003) Tight-binding model for spontaneous magnetism of quantum dot lattices. Physica Scripta, 68, pp. 74-78. (doi: 10.1238/Physica.Regular.068a00074)

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Number of items: 29.

Articles

Haws, C. , Guha, B., Perez, E., Davanco, M., Song, J. D., Srinivasan, K. and Sapienza, L. (2022) Thermal release tape-assisted semiconductor membrane transfer process for hybrid photonic devices embedding quantum emitters. Materials for Quantum Technology, 2(2), 025003. (doi: 10.1088/2633-4356/ac603e)

Haws, C. , Perez, E., Davanco, M., Song, J. D., Srinivasan, K. and Sapienza, L. (2022) Broadband, efficient extraction of quantum light by a photonic device comprised of a metallic nano-ring and a gold back reflector. Applied Physics Letters, 120(8), 081103. (doi: 10.1063/5.0082347)

Trojak, O. J., Gorsky, S., Murray, C., Sgrignuoli, F., Pinheiro, F. A., Dal Negro, L. and Sapienza, L. (2021) Cavity-enhanced light–matter interaction in Vogel-spiral devices as a platform for quantum photonics. Applied Physics Letters, 118(1), 011103. (doi: 10.1063/5.0034984)

Trojak, O. J., Gorsky, S., Sgrignuoli, F., Pinheiro, F. A., Park, S.-I., Song, J. D., Dal Negro, L. and Sapienza, L. (2020) Cavity quantum electro-dynamics with solid-state emitters in aperiodic nano-photonic spiral devices. Applied Physics Letters, 117(12), 124006. (doi: 10.1063/5.0024719)

Trojak, O. J., Woodhead, C., Park, S.-I., Song, J. D., Young, R. J. and Sapienza, L. (2018) Combined metallic nano-rings and solid-immersion lenses for bright emission from single InAs/GaAs quantum dots. Applied Physics Letters, 112(22), 221102. (doi: 10.1063/1.5023207)

Park, S. I., Trojak, O. J., Lee, E., Song, J. D., Kyhm, J., Han, I., Kim, J., Yi, G.-C. and Sapienza, L. (2018) GaAs droplet quantum dots with nanometer-thin capping layer for plasmonic applications. Nanotechnology, 29(20), 205602. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/aab2e1) (PMID:29488899)

Davanco, M., Liu, J., Sapienza, L., Zhang, C.-Z., De Miranda Cardoso, J. V., Verma, V., Mirin, R., Nam, S. W., Liu, L. and Srinivasan, K. (2017) Heterogeneous integration for on-chip quantum photonic circuits with single quantum dot devices. Nature Communications, 8, 889. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00987-6) (PMID:29026109) (PMCID:PMC5715121)

Trojak, O. J., Crane, T. and Sapienza, L. (2017) Optical sensing with Anderson-localised light. Applied Physics Letters, 111(14), 141103. (doi: 10.1063/1.4999936)

Crane, T., Trojak, O. J., Vasco, J. P., Hughes, S. and Sapienza, L. (2017) Anderson localization of visible light on a nanophotonic chip. ACS Photonics, 4(9), pp. 2274-2280. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00517)

Sapienza, L., Liu, J., Song, J. D., Fält, S., Wegscheider, W., Badolato, A. and Srinivasan, K. (2017) Combined atomic force microscopy and photoluminescence imaging to select single InAs/GaAs quantum dots for quantum photonic devices. Scientific Reports, 7, 6205. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06566-5) (PMID:28740160) (PMCID:PMC5524751)

Trojak, O. J., Park, S. I., Song, J. D. and Sapienza, L. (2017) Metallic nanorings for broadband, enhanced extraction of light from solid-state emitters. Applied Physics Letters, 111(2), 021109. (doi: 10.1063/1.4993774)

Liu, J., Davanço, M. I., Sapienza, L., Konthasinghe, K., De Miranda Cardoso, J. V., Song, J. D., Badolato, A. and Srinivasan, K. (2017) Cryogenic photoluminescence imaging system for nanoscale positioning of single quantum emitters. Review of Scientific Instruments, 88(2), 023116. (doi: 10.1063/1.4976578)

Sapienza, L., Al-Khuzheyri, R., Dada, A. , Griffiths, A., Clarke, E. and Gerardot, B. D. (2016) Magneto-optical spectroscopy of single charge-tunable InAs/GaAs quantum dots emitting at telecom wavelengths. Physical Review B, 93(15), 155301. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.155301)

Sapienza, L., Davanço, M., Badolato, A. and Srinivasan, K. (2015) Nanoscale optical positioning of single quantum dots for bright and pure single-photon emission. Nature Communications, 6, 7833. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms8833) (PMID:26211442) (PMCID:PMC4525159)

Javadi, A., Maibom, S., Sapienza, L., Thyrrestrup, H., García, P. D. and Lodahl, P. (2014) Statistical measurements of quantum emitters coupled to Anderson-localized modes in disordered photonic-crystal waveguides. Optics Express, 22(25), pp. 30992-31001. (doi: 10.1364/OE.22.030992) (PMID:25607048)

Agha, I., Ates, S., Sapienza, L. and Srinivasan, K. (2014) Spectral broadening and shaping of nanosecond pulses: Toward shaping of single photons from quantum emitters. Optics Letters, 39(19), pp. 5677-5680. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.005677)

Sapienza, L., Malein, R. N. E., Kuklewicz, C. E., Kremer, P. E., Srinivasan, K., Griffiths, A., Clarke, E., Gong, M., Warburton, R. J. and Gerardot, B. D. (2013) Exciton fine-structure splitting of telecom-wavelength single quantum dots: Statistics and external strain tuning. Physical Review B, 88(15), 155330. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.155330)

Ates, S., Sapienza, L., Davanco, M., Badolato, A. and Srinivasan, K. (2012) Bright single-photon emission from a quantum dot in a circular Bragg grating microcavity. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 18(6), pp. 1711-1721. (doi: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2193877)

Thyrrestrup, H., Smolka, S., Sapienza, L. and Lodahl, P. (2012) Statistical theory of a quantum emitter strongly coupled to Anderson-localized modes. Physical Review Letters, 108(11), 113901. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.113901)

Smolka, S., Thyrrestrup, H., Sapienza, L., Lehmann, T. B., Rix, K. R., Froufe-Pérez, L. S., García, P. D. and Lodahl, P. (2011) Probing the statistical properties of Anderson localization with quantum emitters. New Journal of Physics, 13, 063044. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/063044)

Jouy, P., Vasanelli, A., Todorov, Y., Sapienza, L., Colombelli, R., Gennser, U. and Sirtori, C. (2010) Intersubband electroluminescent devices operating in the strong-coupling regime. Physical Review B, 82, 045322. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.045322)

Thyrrestrup, H., Sapienza, L. and Lodahl, P. (2010) Extraction of the β-factor for single quantum dots coupled to a photonic crystal waveguide. Applied Physics Letters, 96, 231106. (doi: 10.1063/1.3446873)

Sapienza, L., Thyrrestrup, H., Stobbe, S., Garcia, P. D., Smolka, S. and Lodahl, P. (2010) Cavity quantum electrodynamics with Anderson-localized modes. Science, 327(5971), pp. 1352-1355. (doi: 10.1126/science.1185080)

Sapienza, L. and Zerulla, D. (2009) Surface plasmon excitation on magnetoactive materials. Physical Review B, 79(3), 033407. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.033407)

Todorov, Y., Jouy, P., Vasanelli, A., Sapienza, L., Colombelli, R., Gennser, U. and Sirtori, C. (2008) Stark-tunable electroluminescence from cavity polariton states. Applied Physics Letters, 93(17), 171105. (doi: 10.1063/1.3002302)

Sapienza, L., Vasanelli, A., Colombelli, R., Ciuti, C., Chassagneux, Y., Manquest, C., Gennser, U. and Sirtori, C. (2008) Electrically injected cavity polaritons. Physical Review Letters, 100(13), 136806. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.136806) (PMID:18517986)

Sapienza, L., Vasanelli, A., Ciuti, C., Manquest, C., Sirtori, C., Colombelli, R. and Gennser, U. (2007) Photovoltaic probe of cavity polaritons in a quantum cascade structure. Applied Physics Letters, 90(20), 201101. (doi: 10.1063/1.2739308)

Koskinen, P., Sapienza, L. and Manninen, M. (2003) Tight-binding model for spontaneous magnetism of quantum dot lattices. Physica Scripta, 68, pp. 74-78. (doi: 10.1238/Physica.Regular.068a00074)

Conference Proceedings

Song, J., Melo, E. G., Guha, B., Haws, C. , Chanana, A., Sapienza, L., Alegre, T. P.M., Song, J.-D., Srinivasan, K. and Davanco, M. (2022) Nanobeam Photonic Crystal Cavities Engineered for Minimized Quantum Dot Spectral Broadening. In: CLEO: Science and Innovations 2022, San Jose, CA, United States, 15-20 May 2022, ISBN 9781957171050

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Supervision

We welcome applications from self-motivated students and postdoctoral researchers interested in working on fundamental quantum optics effects on a chip, nano and quantum photonic devices, electromagnetic simulations, nanofabrication and quantum biology.

Open positions can be found on our research group website: https://sites.google.com/view/integrated-quantum

Open PhD positions can be found here:

 Current supervised project:

Additional information

More information can be found on our research group website:

Integrated Quantum Photonics research group

For more information, please contact Luca at: Luca.Sapienza@glasgow.ac.uk