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

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Pith's one-line read An ion trap built on borosilicate glass with an integrated femtosecond-laser-written waveguide traps 40Ca+ and drives coherent Rabi oscillations with 729 nm light delivered entirely through the on-chip optics.

desk verdict A credible, manufacturable ion-trap platform with in-plane FLW light delivery; the coherence claim needs one more datapoint, but the engineering is solid. read the letter →

arxiv 2608.13207 v1 pith:D672NSNQ submitted 2026-08-13 quant-ph

Jakob Wahl , Alexander Zesar , Philipp Hurdax , Marco Schmauser , Victoria Schwab , Michael Pasquini , Marco Valentini , Clemens Rössler
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Thomas Monz Bernhard Lamprecht Klemens Schüppert Philipp Schindler
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keywords iontrapfemtosecondlaserwrittenwaveguideborosilicateglassintegratedphotonicssurface-electrodequbitcontrolRabioscillationscryogenic
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The reading

This paper claims that a surface-electrode ion trap can carry its own optical delivery network: a waveguide written by femtosecond laser pulses inside a borosilicate glass block, bonded above the electrodes, emits light at exactly the height of the trapped ion, so no out-of-plane couplers are needed. The authors demonstrate the full chain in a cryogenic $^{40}\mathrm{Ca}^+$ system: trapping the ion, shuttling it into the dedicated addressing zone in front of the waveguide, and driving carrier Rabi oscillations with 729 nm qubit light sent through the integrated waveguide. They also characterize the waveguide's mode-field diameter tuning, single-mode operation at 405 nm, bending loss behavior, and the slowly drifting stray electric fields induced by the dielectric block. The wider goal is a scalable trapped-ion architecture in which electrical routing comes from silicon-based integration and optical routing comes from three-dimensional laser-written waveguides, avoiding the grating couplers and free-space delivery paths that limit larger ion arrays.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing element is the femtosecond-laser-written (FLW) waveguide embedded in a separate borosilicate optics block that is bonded directly onto the trap surface, with the waveguide core inscribed at the $170$ $\mu$m ion height and running parallel to the electrode plane. This geometry lets light exit through the cleaved facet at the ion's position, eliminating the grating couplers or etched mirrors needed in planar waveguide approaches. Within the glass, guiding occurs in regions displaced above and below the laser-modified track, and the paper uses spherical aberration of the writing beam as a process parameter to control mode-field diameter down to roughly 3 $\mu$m. For the ion experiments, an actively aligned optical fiber is glued to the rear facet, and the coherent-drive evidence is a carrier Rabi curve analyzed with the thermal-state model $P_{|1\rangle}(t)=\sum_n P_n(\bar n)\sin^2(\Omega_{n,n}t/2)$, which assumes a single Rabi frequency and a thermal phonon distribution.

What would settle it

A Ramsey sequence using the integrated waveguide, compared with free-space delivery at the same Rabi frequency, would settle the coherence claim: if the waveguide-delivered coherence time is markedly shorter than the free-space value, the thermal-Rabi fit would have masked dephasing or beam instability. An even simpler check is to record the Rabi flop well beyond 300 $\mu$s and inspect whether the contrast follows the smooth thermal envelope of Eq. (2) or displays irregular distortions.

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Core claim

The central discovery is end-to-end functionality: the paper reports trapping of a $^{40}\mathrm{Ca}^+$ ion above a borosilicate surface trap, shuttling the ion to a zone roughly 1 mm in front of a bonded glass block that contains a femtosecond-laser-written waveguide, and driving the $S_{1/2} \leftrightarrow D_{5/2}$ qubit transition with 729 nm light delivered through that waveguide. The measured carrier Rabi oscillation, fitted with a thermal phonon distribution, yields a Rabi frequency of $\Omega = (8.5 \pm 0.1) \times 2\pi$ kHz at a mean phonon number of $\bar n = 23.6 \pm 2.2$. Supporting characterizations show that the waveguide can be single-mode at both 729 nm and 405 nm, that strongly confined modes tolerate bend radii down to about 6 mm with loss below 1 dB/cm, and that the bonded dielectric block shifts the RF null by less than a micrometer at a 1 mm standoff while producing stray electric fields with a slow, repeatable drift of about $-4.5 \times 10^{-4}$ V/(mm$\cdot$h). The authors frame the result as validating a route to integrated light delivery that is compatible with silicon wafers and with hybrid micro-optics for eventual single-ion addressing.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the single measured Rabi curve can be trusted as evidence of coherent driving: the fit assumes a stable, single Rabi frequency and a thermal phonon distribution with no additional dephasing or intensity noise from the integrated delivery path, so a Ramsey or gate measurement is needed to confirm that the oscillation envelope is not mimicked by partially incoherent excitation.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The waveguide emits light at ion height along the trap axis, so the platform can route qubit light without out-of-plane couplers, removing a major fabrication constraint of planar integrated ion traps.
  • Because the same writing process yields single-mode guidance at 405 nm, the optical layer should also be able to deliver Doppler-cooling, repumping, and state-preparation light, not just the 729 nm qubit beam.
  • The low bending loss at a 6 mm radius of curvature allows compact routing of the waveguide within the glass block, which matters for scaling to many addressing zones on a single chip.
  • The slowly drifting stray field from the dielectric block ($\sim -4.5\times10^{-4}$ V/(mm$\cdot$h)) means micromotion compensation stays valid for hours rather than minutes, an essential practical condition for using the platform in experiments.
  • The measured beam radius of roughly 95 $\mu$m at the ion position makes the current device a global beam; the paper's stated compatibility with pick-and-place ball lenses is the proposed route to tight, per-ion addressing spots.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Extension: If the waveguide path is truly phase-preserving, a Ramsey or spin-echo measurement through the same 729 nm waveguide at matched Rabi frequency should show the same or nearly the same coherence time as free-space delivery; this is a direct test the paper does not report.
  • Extension: The unexplained secondary intensity peak near $x = 110$ $\mu$m in the ion-based profile, absent from the camera profile, suggests interference from the manually cleaved facet; a wave-optics simulation of the facet topography could predict and guide improvements to the cleaving step.
  • Extension: Combining the demonstrated stray-field model with the measured charge-density drift could lead to a monitoring protocol that compensates the dielectric block's slow charging in real time using the axial stray-field position-modulation technique described in Appendix D.
  • Extension: If laser-written waveguides can be inscribed in three dimensions through the bonded stack, the same architecture might deliver light from the chip edge directly into multiple trap zones, or even through vias, which would further reduce the free-space optics footprint in large arrays.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper reports a borosilicate-glass surface ion trap with an integrated femtosecond-laser-written (FLW) waveguide that delivers 729 nm qubit light to a 40Ca+ ion in a cryogenic setup. It describes the FLW waveguide fabrication and characterization, including mode-field-diameter tuning, bending-loss measurements, and single-mode guiding at 405 nm, as well as the design, simulation, and assembly of the trap with a bonded optics block. Cryogenic tests demonstrate trapping, shuttling to an addressing zone in front of the waveguide, low heating rates, characterization of stray fields caused by the dielectric block, and Rabi oscillations driven by the integrated light path. The authors position this as an end-to-end demonstration of a scalable route to integrated light delivery for trapped-ion devices.

Significance. If fully supported, this work is a valuable engineering contribution: physically separating the optical delivery layer from the electrode substrate and bonding it on top is a practical approach that remains compatible with silicon/ASIC integration, and the FLW waveguide characterization (tunable MFD, low bending loss at small radii, single-mode operation at 405 nm) provides useful process data for the community. The cryogenic measurements of heating rates and stray fields, together with the axial secular-frequency validation in Appendix C, add solid quantitative grounding. The core novelty is the demonstration that an ion can be trapped, shuttled, and driven by light from an integrated FLW waveguide in a cryogenic environment; this goes beyond previous planar waveguide demonstrations and is of clear interest to integrated trapped-ion quantum computing. However, the headline claim of coherent qubit dynamics rests on limited evidence, as detailed below.

major comments (1)
  1. [Sec. IV C, Fig. 21] The central claim of coherent qubit dynamics driven by the integrated waveguide rests entirely on a single Rabi-flop curve fitted with the thermal carrier model of Eqs. (2)-(3). No repetition statistics, no independent measurement of the mean phonon number nbar at the same position and time, and no comparison with an incoherent or dephased excitation model are provided. A decaying oscillatory curve with a high fitted nbar can in principle be reproduced by partially incoherent excitation if the effective linewidth happens to match, so the data as presented do not uniquely establish phase coherence. Since the abstract and conclusions state 'coherent qubit operations' as a headline result, please either add supporting evidence (e.g., a Ramsey or spin-echo measurement, or at least several repeated Rabi curves with an explicit model comparison against an incoherent saturating-exponential model), or moderate the claim in the abstract and conclusions to 'resonant excitation' via the integrated waveguide.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sec. II C, Figs. 4-6] Several waveguide characterization figures (e.g., Fig. 4 and Fig. 6) present data without error bars or a statement about repeatability; Fig. 5 mentions mean and standard error, but the same clarity should be provided for all parameter sweeps so that the claimed mode-size tuning range and bending-loss thresholds can be critically assessed.
  2. [Sec. IV C, Fig. 22] The camera beam profile is rescaled to match the ion-based Rabi-frequency data before being compared, and the secondary intensity peak near x = 110 um in the ion data is absent in the camera profile; the phrase 'good agreement' should be softened to acknowledge this discrepancy and the fact that the comparison tests only shape, not absolute intensity.
  3. [Sec. IV B, Fig. 20 and Eq. (1)] The stray-field model uses a global scaling factor alpha and per-axis offsets E_o fitted to the same data from which the surface charge density (2.05 +/- 0.24) e/um^2 is inferred. Although this is a fit rather than a circular derivation, the authors should report the fit quality (residuals or reduced chi-square) and discuss how identifiable alpha is given that the fitted z-offset of 1.23 V/mm is not negligible.
  4. [General] There are numerous typographical and notation issues, including '42S1/2↔3 2D5/2' in Sec. IV C (missing superscripts), 'wavelenght' in the Fig. 21 caption, 'Beding loss' in Fig. 6, and 'The its show' in Appendix D; please correct these throughout.
  5. [Sec. IV C, Fig. 21 caption] The caption of Fig. 21 lists the fit parameters as 'ω = (8.5±0.1)2πkHz, n̄ =(23.6±2.2)' but the symbol ω is elsewhere used for secular frequencies; the Rabi frequency should be denoted Ω for consistency and the units should be written explicitly as 2π × kHz.

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No significant circularity: the paper's central claims are direct measurements with explicit fits, and no prediction reduces by construction to its inputs.

full rationale

The paper's load-bearing results are direct experimental measurements: waveguide transmission and mode-field diameters are measured with cameras and beam profilers; heating rates are measured by sideband thermometry; stray fields are measured by micromotion compensation; and the integrated qubit drive is demonstrated by a measured carrier Rabi flop (Fig. 21) fit to the standard thermal carrier model of Eqs. (2)-(3). That fit returns Omega and nbar from the same curve, but the paper presents it as a fit, not as a prediction of an independent quantity, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a validated prediction. The stray-field analysis in Eq. (1) explicitly fits a global scale factor alpha and spatial offsets to the measured field data; the inferred 2 e/um^2 surface charge density is a fitted parameter of a model, not a self-defined target. The camera-profile comparison in Fig. 22 is explicitly rescaled to match the ion-based Rabi-frequency data, so the shape comparison is honest and not a circular derivation. Self-citations such as the dielectric heating model [39] and the ball-lens integration work [18] are background or auxiliary supports, not uniqueness constraints or ansatz-importing load-bearing premises. The thermal Rabi model [41] is a standard textbook result, not a self-citation. The skeptical concern that a single Rabi curve does not fully exclude dephasing or incoherent excitation is a legitimate evidence-strength or correctness question, but it is not a circularity of the kind defined here, because the paper does not derive the coherence claim from a parameter that was itself defined in terms of that claim. Overall, the derivation chain is self-contained against external benchmarks and no step reduces by construction to its own inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 7 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper is an experimental demonstration, so the ledger is mostly standard ion-trap modeling assumptions. The ad hoc element is the uniform-charge FEM model used to interpret stray fields, whose amplitude is fitted rather than predicted. No new physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (7)
  • RF electrode width wRF = 250 µm
    Design choice from FEM voltage sweep (App. A, Fig. 23) to keep RF amplitude below 140 V and DC voltages below 40 V; the trap geometry depends on it.
  • Ion height and waveguide depth x0 = 170 µm
    Chosen to match the waveguide writing depth to the trapping height while staying within the 40 V control limit; load-bearing for the alignment between beam and ion.
  • Glass block edge distance yg = 1 mm
    Selected from FEM RF-null shift simulations (Fig. 8) to keep the trap-position shift near 0.8 µm; the stray-field properties depend on this distance.
  • Stray-field scaling factor alpha = 2.05 ± 0.24
    Global multiplier in Eq. (1) fitted to the measured axial stray-field profile; it turns the FEM unit-charge field into the inferred 2 e/µm2 surface charge density.
  • Stray-field offsets E_o = (-0.01, -0.10, 1.23) ± (0.04, 0.05, 0.09) V/mm
    Spatially constant background fields fitted simultaneously with alpha in Eq. (1); if they vary along the axis, the charge inference is biased.
  • Inferred surface charge density = 2.05 ± 0.24 e/µm2
    Derived from the fitted alpha, not measured independently; presented as the main quantitative stray-field result.
  • Mean phonon number in Rabi fit = 23.6 ± 2.2
    Thermal ensemble parameter of Eq. (3) fitted to the Rabi flop in Fig. 21; not extracted from an independent sideband temperature measurement.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption Gapless infinite-plane approximation for electrode unit potentials
    Used to build the multipole matrix and shuttling waveforms (App. B, Eq. B1-B6). The approximation neglects finite electrode gaps and the bonded dielectric block; it is validated only through axial secular frequency comparisons (App. C).
  • domain assumption Pseudopotential approximation for the RF field
    Standard treatment of the ponderomotive trapping potential (Ref. 44); the radial secular frequencies are inferred from this approximation.
  • ad hoc to paper Uniform surface charge density on all exposed glass surfaces
    The FEM stray-field model in Sec. IV B assumes 1 e/µm2 uniformly on the glass, then scales by alpha; the actual charge distribution is not measured.
  • ad hoc to paper Spatially constant background stray-field offsets
    Eq. (1) writes the total stray field as alpha times the simulated field plus a constant vector; any position-dependent background field would be absorbed into the fitted charge scale.
  • standard math Thermal Boltzmann phonon distribution for the Rabi flop
    Eq. (3) models the motional state as a thermal distribution with mean nbar, which is the standard assumption after Doppler cooling and supports the carrier Rabi interpretation in Sec. IV C.
  • domain assumption Dielectric heating at 1 mm is negligible per the model of Ref. 39
    The conclusion that the glass block does not affect heating rates relies on this published model rather than a direct with/without-glass measurement.

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abstract

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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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Concept of the ion trap. The aluminum trap electrodes are patterned on a borosilicate substrate. Patterned segmented [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. Schematic of the femtosecond laser setup used for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Overview of waveguide morphology, mode pro [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Mode field diameter of waveguides located above and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Beam divergence as a function of the mode field [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Bending-induced loss of the lower laser-written [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Schematic of our trap geometry. The dimensions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: B. Ion trap fabrication In this section, we detail the fabrication process for the ion trap device. The majority of the wafer-level fab￾rication was performed at the semiconductor manufac- [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10. Fabrication scheme of an ion trap device. In steps [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_10.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: FIG. 12. Photograph of assembly setup. The glass block (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_12.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11. Microscopy image of completed the ion trap chip [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_11.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: FIG. 14. Light intensity profile of device A and B after as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_14.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: FIG. 13. Microsopy images during assembly. Upper image: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_13.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: FIG. 17. Microscope image of glass blocks after ion trap as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_17.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: FIG. 19. Stray charge measurement over 9 hours in the ad [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_19.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: FIG. 18. The heating rate measured on the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_18.png]
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Figure 20. Figure 20: FIG. 20. Measured stray fields along the trap axis. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_20.png]
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Figure 21. Figure 21: FIG. 21. Rabiflop driven using the integrated FLW waveg [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_21.png]
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Figure 22. Figure 22: FIG. 22. Rabi frequencies measured along to trap axis, using [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_22.png]
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Figure 23. Figure 23: FIG. 23. Voltages required for ion trapping at an ion height 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_23.png]
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Figure 24. Figure 24: FIG. 24. Shuttling waveforms applied to electrode pairs 2, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_24.png]
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Figure 25. Figure 25: FIG. 25. Measured axial secular frequency versus calcula [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_25.png]
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Figure 27. Figure 27: FIG. 27. Ion displacement versus the applied [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_27.png]
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Figure 26. Figure 26: FIG. 26. Camera images of the ion taken for two differ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_26.png]

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