Publications by Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

Gain-switched semiconductor laser driven soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

Dissipative Kerr soliton generation using self-injection-locked III-V lasers has enabled fully integrated hybrid microcombs that operate in turnkey mode and can access microwave repetition rates. Yet, continuous-wave-driven soliton microcombs exhibit low e ...

Nature Research2021

Gain-switched semiconductor laser driven soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

Using phase-engineered coherent laser pulses produced by gain-switched semiconductor lasers, we generate low-power-threshold soliton microcombs whose repetition frequencies are in the X-band and K-band microwave ranges. (c) 2021TheAuthor(s) ...

IEEE2021

Heteronuclear soliton molecules in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng

Optical soliton molecules are bound states of solitons that arise from the balance between attractive and repulsive effects. Having been observed in systems ranging from optical fibres to mode-locked lasers, they provide insights into the fundamental inter ...

Nature Research2020

Photonic microwave generation in the X- and K-band using integrated soliton microcombs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He

Microwave photonic technologies, which upshift the carrier into the optical domain, have facilitated the generation and processing of ultra-wideband electronic signals at vastly reduced fractional bandwidths. For microwave photonic applications such as rad ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Massively parallel coherent LiDAR using dissipative Kerr solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate an architecture for massively parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR) by transferring linear chirps of a single narrow linewidth laser onto all soliton comb teeth though generation of a dissipative Kerr soli ...

IEEE2020

Ultralow-noise photonic microwave synthesis using a soliton microcomb-based transfer oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

The synthesis of ultralow-noise microwaves is of both scientific and technological relevance for timing, metrology, communications and radio-astronomy. Today, the lowest reported phase noise signals are obtained via optical frequency-division using mode-lo ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Mitchell David Anderson, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

We demonstrate piezoelectric actuators monolithically integrated on ultralow-loss Si3N4 waveguides. Varying the voltage applied on the actuator allows microresonator tuning, and to initiate, switch, stabilize and tightly phase lock the single soliton micro ...

IEEE2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Tianyi Liu

High-speed actuation of laser frequency(1)is critical in applications using lasers and frequency combs(2,3), and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer among optical carriers. For example, high-bandwidth feedbac ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Microresonator soliton based massively parallel coherent LiDAR

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate an architecture for massively parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR) by transferring linear chirps of a single narrow linewidth laser onto all soliton comb teeth though generation of a dissipative Kerr soli ...

IEEE2020

Massively parallel coherent laser ranging using a soliton microcomb

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

Coherent ranging, also known as frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser-based light detection and ranging (lidar)(1) is used for long-range three-dimensional distance and velocimetry in autonomous driving(2,3). FMCW lidar maps distance to frequenc ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of integrated soliton microcombs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Tianyi Liu

We demonstrate piezoelectric actuators monolithically integrated on ultralow-loss Si3N4 waveguides. Varying the voltage applied on the actuator allows tuning the microresonator, and is used to initiate, switch, stabilize and tightly phase lock the single s ...

IEEE2020

Chip-based soliton microcomb module using a hybrid semiconductor laser

Nicolas Volet, Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He

Photonic chip-based soliton microcombs have shown rapid progress and have already been used in many system-level applications. There has been substantial progress in realizing soliton microcombs that rely on compact laser sources, culminating in devices th ...

2020

Microresonator Dual-Comb Coherent FMCW LiDAR

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

We introduce a novel architecture for parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR). Using dual soliton microcombs, we demonstrate a parallel distance measurement with 24 channels requiring only a single FMCW pump laser and cohe ...

IEEE2020

Laser Self-Injection Locked Frequency Combs in a Normal GVD Integrated Microresonator

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He

We report the first demonstration of microresonator dark pulse generation by self-injection locking of a DFB laser to a Si3N4 microresonator with normal GVD. The 26 GHz repetition rate beatnote is characterized. (C) 2020 The Author(s) ...

IEEE2020

Electrically driven photonic integrated soliton microcomb

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Andrey Voloshin

We demonstrate via self-injection locking an electrically driven soliton micro-comb by coupling a multi-frequency laser diode to a chip-scale high-Q Si3N4 microresonator. This approach offers a pathway for an integrated and ultra-compact microcomb source f ...

IEEE2019

Heteronuclear Soliton Molecules in Optical Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng

We enter the multi-stability regime of an optical microresonator to generate heteronuclear soliton molecules. Ultrafast electro-optical sampling reveals the bound structures of such soliton molecules, despite comprising solitons of dissimilar amplitudes, d ...

IEEE2019

Electrically pumped photonic integrated soliton microcomb (vol 10, 680, 2018)

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Andrey Voloshin

Springer2019

Physics of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators and Application to Frequency Synthesis

Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

Optical-frequency combs, that is spectra of equidistant coherent optical lines, have revolutionized the precision measurements of time and frequency. In 2007 a new method to generate optical frequency combs was discovered. In contrast to conventional gener ...

EPFL2019

Multiple soliton comb generation method and device

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

2019

Thermo-refractive noise in silicon nitride microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Nils Johan Engelsen, Guanhao Huang

Thermodynamic noises limit the frequency stability of resonators. Here, we present the first complete characterization of thermo-refractive noise in Si3N4 microresonators. The measurements are in good agreement with theoretical analysis and FEM simulation ...

IEEE2019