Publications related to Acousto-optic modulator

Silicon nitride electric-field poled microresonator modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Boris Zabelich, Christian André Clément Lafforgue, Edgars Nitiss

Stoichiometric silicon nitride is a highly regarded platform for its favorable attributes, such as low propagation loss and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, making it a prominent choice for various linear and nonlinear ...

2024

Laser Doppler Vibrometer measurements of the 3D pressure field for the estimation of the radiation force produced by an acoustic standing-wave levitator

Amit Yedidia Dolev

Acoustic levitation devices use powerful ultrasonic standing waves to levitate objects in mid-air. We have created a system and method to measure the full harmonic content of the acoustic field accurately. Our study revealed that levitated particles alter ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Chaotic microcomb-based parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Aleksandr Tusnin, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

The intrinsic random amplitude and phase modulation of 40 distinct lines of a microresonator frequency comb operated in the modulation instability regime are used to realize massively parallel random-modulation continuous-wave light detection and ranging, ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

Fluorescence crosstalk reduction by modulated excitation-synchronous acquisition for multispectral analysis in high-throughput droplet microfluidics

Christoph Merten, Jatin Panwar

Crosstalk between fluorescent biomarkers significantly limits the resolution of multispectral fluorescence analysis in real-time droplet-microfluidics applications. The crosstalk is a result of overlapping emission and excitation spectra of different fluor ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Domain Imaging and Switching Dynamics in BaTiO3-Based Photonic Integrated Devices

Jacqueline Geler Kremer

Keeping up with our constantly connected lifestyle of instant messages and video streaming has its repercussions. Data centers have been gobbling up resources becoming a significant share of the energy used worldwide. To keep up with demand and curb the en ...

EPFL2023

Thermally reconfigurable metalens

Giulia Tagliabue, Anna Archetti, Nathanaël Restori, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Theodoros Tsoulos, Ren-Jie Lin

Reconfigurable metalenses are compact optical components composed by arrays of meta-atoms that offer unique opportunities for advanced optical systems, from microscopy to augmented reality platforms. Although poorly explored in the context of reconfigurabl ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2022

Large evanescently-induced Brillouin scattering at the surrounding of a nanofibre

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger, Li Zhang

Brillouin scattering has been widely exploited for advanced photonics functionalities such as microwave photonics, signal processing, sensing, lasing, and more recently in micro- and nano-photonic waveguides. Most of the works have focused on the opto-acou ...

Nature Research2022

High speed, complex wavefront shaping using the digital micro-mirror device

Demetri Psaltis, Ahmed Ayoub

Digital micro-mirror devices (DMDs) have been deployed in many optical applications. As compared to spatial light modulators (SLMs), they are characterized by their much faster refresh rates (full-frame refresh rates up to 32 kHz for binary patterns) compa ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Advanced methods for Brillouin based distributed optical fiber sensors

Simon Adrien Zaslawski

After more than thirty years of continuous research and development, the performances of conventional Brillouin based distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) are now peaking, as they are facing fundamental barriers that restrict the power of the light inj ...

EPFL2021

Performance analysis of the differential pulse-width pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis using the log normalized and linearly normalized gain

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang

The performance of the differential pulse-width pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis (DPP-BOTDA) is evaluated experimentally using either the gain from log normalization or linear normalization for the subtraction of traces collected with pump pulse ...

SPIE2019

Image-Based Marker-Free Screening of GABA(A) Agonists, Antagonists, and Modulators

Gerardo Turcatti, Benjamin Rappaz, Fabien Kuttler, Damiano Banfi, Pierre Marquet, Pascal Jourdain

The ionotropic GABA(A) receptors represent the main target for different groups of widely used drugs having hypnotic and anxiolytic effects. So far, most approaches used to assess GABA activity involve invasive low -throughput electrophysiological techniqu ...

2019

Local Structural Heterogeneity and Electromechanical Responses of Ferroelectrics: Learning from Relaxor Ferroelectrics

Dragan Damjanovic

Long-range ordering of dipoles is a key microscopic signature of ferroelectrics. These ordered dipoles form ferroelectric domains, which can be reoriented by electric fields. Relaxor ferroelectrics are a type of ferroelectric where the longrange ordering o ...

2018

Frequency Comb Stabilization of Ultrafast Lasers by Opto-Optical Modulation of Semiconductors

Sargis Hakobyan

In this paper, we review the current state and discuss new developments in opto-optical modulation (OOM) of semiconductor elements for frequency comb self-referenced stabilization of ultrafast lasers. This method has been successfully used for carrier-enve ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

All-fiber molecular frequency reference at 2 μm based on a versatile laser modulation sideband locking and a hollow-core fiber gas cell

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow

Sensing of atmospheric trace gases is crucial for climate monitoring and to predict global climate changes. The required global coverage and spatial resolution have driven the studies of space-borne differential absorption lidar (DIAL) instruments to remot ...

IEEE2017

Tunable insertion of multiple lines into a Kerr frequency comb using electro-optical modulators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Yan Yan, Lin Zhang, Ahmad Fallahpour, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Cong Liu

We experimentally insert a flexible number of electro-optical (EO) comb lines into a Kerr frequency comb via EO modulation and demonstrate the use of combined Kerr and EO combs as light sources in coherent communications. The number of EO lines inserted in ...

Optical Society of America2017

All-optical flip-flop based on dynamic Brillouin gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

One of the most essential building blocks in modem electronics is the flip-flop. A flip-flop operates bi-stably between two states, remaining at a given output level (high or low level) until a specific input control signal changes. For many years, photoni ...

IEEE2017

Modulated scattering technique in the terahertz domain enabled by current actuated vanadium dioxide switches

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Michele Tamagnone, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Santiago Capdevila Cascante

The modulated scattering technique is based on the use of reconfigurable electromagnetic scatterers, structures able to scatter and modulate an impinging electromagnetic field in function of a control signal. The modulated scattering technique is used in a ...

Nature Research2017

Gain vs phase in BOTDA setups

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

We evaluate the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) determination error when using the Brillouin phase spectrum (BPS) instead of the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) in BOTDA setups. We compare the error obtained in the BFS determination in both cases, both with ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Evaluation of the accuracy of BOTDA systems based on the phase spectral response

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

We evaluate the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) determination error when utilizing the Brillouin phase spectrum (BPS) instead of the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) in BOTDA systems. Systems based on the BPS perform the determination of the BFS through a lin ...

Optical Society of America2016

Terabit/s communications using chip-scale frequency comb sources

Tobias Kippenberg, Victor Brasch, Tobias Herr

High-speed optical interconnects rely on advanced wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) schemes. However, while photonic-electronic interfaces can be efficiently realized on silicon-on-insulator chips, dense integration of the necessary light sources stil ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015