Publications related to Optical storage

3D diffractive optics for linear interconnects and nonlinear processing

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

Optically responsive dry cholesteric liquid crystal marbles

Dry liquid crystal marbles are structures that consist of cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) droplets prepared by the mixture of chiral-doped thermotropic LCs encapsulated by cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) that have been dried under ambient conditions. The ch ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2024

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

Dimensionality reduction of time-series data, and systems and devices that use the resultant embeddings

Mackenzie Mathis, Steffen Schneider

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dimensionality reduction of time-series using contrastive learning. A method can include receiving multidimensional input time series data that includes ...

2023

Towards optical MAS magnetic resonance using optical traps

Giovanni Boero, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Reza Farsi, Jens Anders

Higher magic angle spinning (MAS) frequencies than currently available are desirable to improve spectral resolution in NMR and EPR systems. While conventional strategies employ pneumatic spinning limited by fluid dynamics, this paper demonstrates the devel ...

Elsevier2023

One-shot Garbage Collection for In-memory OLTP through Temporality-aware Version Storage

Anastasia Ailamaki, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Periklis Chrysogelos, Angelos Christos Anadiotis

Most modern in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) engines rely on multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) to provide data consistency guarantees in the presence of conflicting data accesses. MVCC improves concurrency by generating a new version o ...

ACM2023

Improving planar optode lifetime: encapsulation and optical release of pH-sensing optodes and assessment of their lifetime in situ

Victoria Alexandrine Julia Suzanne Marthe Fay

PurposePlanar fluorescent optodes are important tools for probing key parameters, such as the soil pH, O2 level, and CO2 level, associated with the biology and biochemistry process in the rhizosphere. In this paper, we address an important limitation of ex ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2023

Beating the I/O Bottleneck: A Case for Log-Structured Virtual Disks

Vojtech Aschenbrenner

With the increasing dominance of SSDs for local storage, today's network mounted virtual disks can no longer offer competitive performance. We propose a Log-Structured Virtual Disk (LSVD) that couples log-structured approaches at both the cache and storage ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Methods for acute and long-term imaging of the ventral nerve cord in behaving adult Drosophila

Laura Joan Hermans

Understanding how neural circuits remodel and adapt to animal behavior is a central theme in the field of Neuroscience. One strategy to reach this goal is to repeatedly record the same animal's neural circuits and observe how they adapt when facing differe ...

EPFL2022

Sensitivity and spectral control of network lasers

Alexis Arnaudon, Dinika Saxena

Recently, random lasing in complex networks has shown efficient lasing over more than 50 localised modes, promoted by multiple scattering over the underlying graph. If controlled, these network lasers can lead to fast-switching multifunctional light source ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Fully self-contained turn-key soliton microcomb source

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Grigorii Likhachev, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, John David Jost, Arslan Sajid Raja

We demonstrate a turn-key microcomb source based on 100 GHz Si3N4 ring microresonator. The device is fully optically and electronically integrated in a compact box, which runs by pushing one button. ...

IEEE2021

Synthesis of branching morphologies

Henry Markram, Lida Kanari

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for generating model neurons. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of descriptions of branches of dendrites of one or more neurons and gener ...

2021

Smooth GaN membranes by polarization-assisted electrochemical etching

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Joachim Armand Simonne Ciers

III-nitride membranes offer promising perspectives and improved device designs in photonics, electronics, and optomechanics. However, the removal of the growth substrate often leads to a rough membrane surface, which increases scattering losses in optical ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Narrowband Optical Coupler Using Fano Interference in First Order Diffraction

Olivier Martin, Benjamin Gallinet, Giorgio Quaranta, Fabian Michael Lütolf

Light coupling in waveguides has been extensively investigated in a variety of contexts, from photonic integrated circuits to biosensing and near-eye displays for augmented reality. Here, narrowband diffraction is reported using a Fano interference effect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Integration of MEMS in Silicon Photonics

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...

EPFL2021

III-nitride photonic cavities

Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté

Owing to their wide direct bandgap tenability, III-nitride (III-N) compound semiconductors have been proven instrumental in the development of blue light-emitting diodes that led to the so-called solid-state lighting revolution and blue laser diodes that a ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2020

Fundamentals and perspectives of ultrafast photoferroic recording

Anna Pogrebna

The ability to switch ferroics (ferro-, ferri-, antiferromagnets, ferroelectrics, multiferroics) between two stable bit states is one of the keystones of modern data storage technology. Due to many new ideas, originating from fundamental research during th ...

2020

Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics

Demetri Psaltis

Artificial intelligence tasks across numerous applications require accelerators for fast and low-power execution. Optical computing systems may be able to meet these domain-specific needs but, despite half a century of research, general-purpose optical com ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Aerolysin nanopores decode digital information stored in tailored macromolecular analytes

Aleksandra Radenovic, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Lucien Fabrice Krapp, Nuria Cirauqui Diaz

Digital data storage is a growing need for our society and finding alternative solutions than those based on silicon or magnetic tapes is a challenge in the era of “big data.” The recent development of polymers that can store information at the molecular l ...

2020

A Sensor Fusion Approach to the Estimation of Instantaneous Velocity Using Single Wearable Sensor During Sprint

Kamiar Aminian, Frédéric Meyer, Salil Apte, Farzin Dadashi, Vincent Gremeaux

Power-Force-Velocity profile obtained during a sprint test is crucial for designing personalized training and evaluating injury risks. Estimation of instantaneous velocity is requisite for developing these profiles and the predominant method for this estim ...

2020