Publications by Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Electro-optic sampling of classical and quantum light

Full characterization of electric-field waveforms in amplitude and phase is achieved across the terahertz to visible spectral range through interaction with an optical pulse shorter than a half-cycle period via the Pockels (linear electro-optic) effect. Th ...

2025

Field-Resolved Detection of Broadband Terahertz Pulses with Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Integrated Microring Resonators

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino

The Terahertz (THz) frequency domain lies between the realms of microwave and optics, with frequencies conventionally spanning the 0.1-10 THz spectral range [1]. Many commercially-available THz systems routinely exploits optical down/up conversion mechanis ...

IEEE2025

Single-Chip for Terahertz Emission and Detection on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Platform

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino

The terahertz (THz) frequency region (0.1-10 THz) between microwaves and infrared, holds significant potential across various fields such as communication, sensing, and spectroscopy. Conventional THz systems for broadband emission and detection remain bulk ...

IEEE2025

Electro-Optic Metasurface for Tunable External Cavity Lasers

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Francesco Bertot, Alessandro Tomasino

Tunable electro-optic metasurfaces have proven to be excellent platforms when it comes to compact and fast modulation of free space light [1] which makes them relevant for applications like coherent laser ranging[2] and fast spatial light modulators. In th ...

IEEE2025

Photonics-integrated terahertz transmission lines

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Yazan Lampert Almahmoud, Alessandro Tomasino, Aleksei Gaier

Modern communication and sensing technologies connect the optical domain with the microwave domain. Accessing the terahertz region from 100 GHz to 10 THz is critical for providing larger bandwidths capabilities. Despite progress in integrated electronics, ...

2025

MonoliThic Millimeter Wave Generation and Detection from Resonant Lithium Niobate Circuits

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Aleksei Gaier

High-frequency electro-magnetic waves, including millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz, represent a frontier of research with transformative potentials in next-generation wireless communication, advanced sensing and imaging, and quantum science and applic ...

IEEE2025

Cascaded-mode interferometers: Spectral shape and linewidth engineering

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Interferometers are essential tools for measuring and shaping optical fields, widely used in optical metrology, sensing, laser physics, and quantum mechanics. They superimpose waves with a mutual phase delay, modifying light intensity. A frequency-dependen ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2025

Broadband plasmonic-organic terahertz field sensor on a silicon-on-insulator platform

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Francesco Bertot, Alessandro Tomasino

We propose an innovative configuration for the on-chip detection of terahertz fields relying on a hybrid silicon-organic platform. In particular, we combine silicon waveguides with terahertz antennas and nonlinear optical polymers to perform an integrated ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Broadband Terahertz emitters from phase-matched lithium niobate photonics

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Yazan Lampert Almahmoud, Alessandro Tomasino

We present emission up to 3 THz from a phase-matched terahertz-optical photonic circuit, featuring a co-planar metallic cavity traversed by an optical rib waveguide and a dipolar antenna for efficient out-coupling of terahertz waves. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

On-chip terahertz thin-film devices

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Yazan Lampert Almahmoud, Alessandro Tomasino

A terahertz device for detecting or emitting or for both detecting and emitting electromagnetic waves in the terahertz frequency range. The terahertz device comprises: a first waveguide branch and a second waveguide branch, the first and second waveguide b ...

2024

Hybrid silicon photonics for terahertz applications

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

This talk will highlight opportunities for terahertz science and technology from nonlinear integrated photonic circuits by exploring waveguides, resonators and terahertz antennas. Their present and future applications in metrology, emission and waveform co ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2024

Time-resolved THz detection on thin-film lithium niobate

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

We present an on-chip interface between terahertz and near-infrared fields for time-resolved THz detection. The double-confinement of the probe-signal inside a waveguide and the terahertz field inside a gold antenna increases the nonlinear interaction. The ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Resolving sub-cycle signatures: A perspective on hallmarks of terahertz metrology

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino

Frequency up-conversion has become amongst the most prevalent techniques for detection of terahertz waves in metrology systems. State-of-the-art up-conversion techniques rely on the coherent transferring of the information encoded in all degrees of freedom ...

2023

Resonators with tailored optical path by cascaded-mode conversions

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Marco Piccardo

Optical resonators enable the generation, manipulation, and storage of electromagnetic waves. The physics underlying their operation is determined by the interference of electromagnetic waves, giving rise to the resonance spectrum. This mechanism causes th ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Present and future of terahertz integrated photonic devices

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Shima Rajabali

Photonic integrated circuits have benefited many fields in the natural sciences. Their nanoscale patterning has led to the discovery of novel sources and detectors from ultraviolet to microwaves. Yet terahertz technologies have so far leveraged surprisingl ...

AIP Publishing2023

500 GHz field-resolved detection in thin-film lithium niobate devices

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino

In this work, we show the coherent reconstruction of terahertz (THz) transients in thin-film lithium niobate integrated photonics circuits. Our devices modulate the intensity of a probe beam guided through a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) structure, und ...

IEEE2023

Ultra-broadband terahertz radiation by supercontinuum generation and optical rectification in a dispersion-engineered waveguide: a numerical study

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Aleksei Gaier

In this work, we propose a numerical approach based on forward coupled mode modeling to simultaneously evaluate second- and third-order nonlinearities inside a dispersion-engineered waveguide towards the goal of generating broadband terahertz (THz) radiati ...

IEEE2023

Metasurface-stabilized optical microcavities

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Cavities concentrate light and enhance its interaction with matter. Confining to microscopic volumes is necessary for many applications but space constraints in such cavities limit the design freedom. Here we demonstrate stable optical microcavities by cou ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Tunable pump compression and fast modulation for pulsed THz generation

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Shima Rajabali, Yazan Lampert Almahmoud, Alessandro Tomasino

We demonstrate tunable dispersion compensation of femtosecond pulses at telecom wavelengths for broadband Terahertz generation in 7.5-meter fiber link using a Silicon prism pair. The prism pair enhances the amplitude of the THz E-field in InGaAs photocondu ...

IEEE2023

Terahertz waveform synthesis in integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform

Jérôme Faist, Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, 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