Publications related to Optical parametric amplifier

Emergent nonlinear dynamics in photonic lattices

Since the discovery of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators, significant progress has been made in the understanding of the underlying physical principles from the fundamental side and generation of broadband coherent optical Kerr frequency ...

EPFL2024

Electric-field-induced second-order nonlinear processes in stoichiometric silicon nitride

Boris Zabelich

Nonlinear optical frequency conversion is one of the driving research areas in photonics. Its quasi instantaneous response and the promise of low power consumption in integrated structures could cover the demand for fast signal processing with minimal ener ...

EPFL2024

3D diffractive optics for linear interconnects and nonlinear processing

Niyazi Ulas Dinç

The optical domain presents potential avenues for enhancing both computing and communication due to its inherent properties of bandwidth, parallelism, and energy efficiency. This research focuses on harnessing 3-Dimensional (3D) diffractive optics for nove ...

EPFL2024

Stability of a liquid layer draining around a horizontal cylinder: Interplay of capillary and gravity forces

François Gallaire, Shahab Eghbali, Simeon Vladimirov Djambov

We study the drainage of a viscous liquid film coating the outside of a solid horizontal cylinder, where gravity acts vertically. We focus on the limit of large Ohnesorge numbers Oh, where inertia is negligible compared to viscous effects. We first study t ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization

Arman Ayan

Photonics integrated circuits are a promising solution for the growing demands of data transmission and future system-on-chip technologies. Within this context, nonlinear optical interactions offer unique opportunities for all-optical processing, sampling, ...

EPFL2024

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Majed Chergui

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense, coherent and tunable. They are enabling a broad range of nonlinear optical and s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Terahertz waveform synthesis in integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Jérôme Faist, Francesca Fabiana Settembrini

Bridging the "terahertz gap" relies upon synthesizing arbitrary waveforms in the terahertz domain enabling applications that require both narrow band sources for sensing and few-cycle drives for classical and quantum objects. However, realization of custom ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Voltage-tunable optical parametric oscillator with an alternating dispersion dimer integrated on a chip

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Stroganov, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alexey Tikan

Optical parametric oscillators enable the conversion of pump light to new frequency bands using nonlinear optical processes. Recent advances in integrated nonlinear photonics have led to the creation of compact, chip-scale sources via Kerr-nonlinearity-ind ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Balancing high-speed rotors at low speed using optimized parametric excitation and tuned nonlinear feedback

Amit Yedidia Dolev

The paper presents an improved slow-speed mass balancing procedure capable of reducing high-speed related imbalance. Parametric excitation is used to project the small imbalance forces onto a chosen mode of vibration, corresponding to a high critical rotat ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

High sensitivity, incoherent differential imaging

Chiara Bonati

Microscopic visualisation of optically transparent samples has been a topic of interest for several decades. Features such as density or chemical composition can influence the optical phase of transmitted light, and phase contrast can reveal these structur ...

EPFL2022

PHz Electronic Device Design and Simulation for Waveguide-Integrated Carrier-Envelope Phase Detection

Yujia Yang

Carrier-envelope phase (CEP) detection of ultrashort optical pulses and low-energy waveform field sampling have recently been demonstrated using direct time-domain methods that exploit optical-field photoemission from plasmonic nanoantennas. These devices ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Glass-in-glass infiltration for 3D micro-optical composite components

Andreas Mortensen, Yves Bellouard, Jérôme Faist, Gözden Torun, Enrico Casamenti, Luciano Borasi, Mathieu Bertrand

Chalcogenide glass exhibits a wide transmission window in the infrared range, a high refractive index, and nonlinear optical properties; however, due to its poor mechanical properties and low chemical and environmental stability, producing three-dimensiona ...

2022

Single photon detection with amorphous silicon-based microchannel plates: A Monte Carlo model

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Janina Christine Isabelle Löffler, Samira Alexandra Frey

Microchannel plates based on amorphous silicon have the inherent capability to overcome the existing spatial and temporal resolution limitations of single photon detectors. A Monte Carlo model-based study is presented here that serves to exploit their full ...

2022

Probing the Material Loss and Optical Nonlinearity of Integrated Photonic Materials

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Guanhao Huang

Optical absorption and nonlinear index are important performance drivers in devices like microcombs and parametric oscillators. Here we use resonance-enhanced nonlinear spectroscopy to characterize absorption limits and nonlinear index for some integrated ...

IEEE2021

Measurement of the 2D emission profiles of hydrogen and impurity ions in the TCV divertor

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing

Plasma emission of hydrogen and impurities is measured with use of filtered camera imaging in TCV divertor. The measurement technique is discussed in detail including: selection choice of filters, the absolute calibration procedure and the tomographic inve ...

Elsevier2021

Resonant Band-Edge Emissive States in Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale, Aaron Tomas Terpstra

Strongly confined, fully inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals are of great promise for light-emitting devices in the blue spectral range owing to their high photoluminescence quantum yields. A combination of broadband fluorescence up-conver ...

2021

Giant Brillouin Amplification in Gas Using Hollow-core Fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger

Optical amplification in hollow core fibers has been achieved using stimulated Brillouin scattering directly in the gaseous medium. More than 50 dB optical gain is observed over 50 m of fiber using 200 mW of pump power. ...

Optical Society of America2021

Distributed optomechanical fiber sensing based on serrodyne analysis

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Simon Adrien Zaslawski

Distributed measurement of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (FSBS) attracted substantial attention for its ability to probe media surrounding optical fibers. Currently, all techniques extract the information from the FSBS-induced local energy transf ...

2021

Vibration monitoring based on optical sensing of mechanical nonlinearities in glass suspended waveguides

Yves Bellouard, Tao Yang, Pieter Vlugter, Enrico Casamenti

Vibration monitoring plays a key role in numerous applications, including machinerypredictive maintenance, shock detection, space applications, packaging-integrity monitoring andmining. Here, we investigate mechanical nonlinearities inherently present in s ...

2021

Highly efficient THz four-wave mixing in doped silicon

Gabriel Aeppli

Third-order non-linearities are important because they allow control over light pulses in ubiquitous high-quality centro-symmetric materials like silicon and silica. Degenerate four-wave mixing provides a direct measure of the third-order non-linear sheet ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021