Publications by John David Jost

Fully self-contained turn-key soliton microcomb source

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

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

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

Optical coupling device

Tobias Kippenberg, John David Jost, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson

The present invention concerns an optical coupling device including at least one supporting layer comprising a first support wall and a second support wall. The at least one supporting layer comprises at least one bridging waveguide for coupling electromag ...

2019

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

Electrically Driven Ultra-compact 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 a current-initiated soliton microcomb by injection-locking a multi-frequency laser diode to a chip-scale high-Q Si3N4 microresonator. This approach offers a pathway for integrated and ultra-compact microcomb source for high-volume applicatio ...

IEEE2019

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

Electrically pumped photonic integrated soliton microcomb

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

Microcombs provide a path to broad-bandwidth integrated frequency combs with low power consumption, which are compatible with wafer-scale fabrication. Yet, electrically-driven, photonic chip-based microcombs are inhibited by the required high threshold pow ...

Nature Research2019

Highly efficient coupling of crystalline microresonators to integrated photonic waveguides

Michail Zervas, Tobias Kippenberg, John David Jost, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson

Crystalline optical whispering gallery mode resonators made from alkaline earth fluorides can achieve exceptionally large optical finesse, and are used in a variety of applications, from frequency stabilization and narrow linewidth lasers, to low-noise mic ...

2018

Dissipative Kerr solitons in photonic chip-based microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

Since their discovery microresonator-based frequency combs have drawn a lot of interest due to their compact form factor and potential for integration. We report on the recent progress regarding dissipative Kerr solitons generated from photonic chip-based ...

IEEE2018

Soliton dynamics in optical micro resonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Victor Brasch, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

Self-referenced photonic chip soliton Kerr frequency comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Victor Brasch, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

Self-referencing turns pulsed laser systems into self-referenced frequency combs. Such frequency combs allow counting of optical frequencies and have a wide range of applications. The required optical bandwidth to implement self-referencing is typically ob ...

2017

Intermode Breather Solitons in Optical Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson

Dissipative solitons can be found in a variety of systems resulting from the double balance between dispersion and nonlinearity, as well as gain and loss. Recently, they have been observed to spontaneously form in Kerr nonlinear microresonators driven by a ...

American Physical Society2017

Detuning-dependent properties and dispersion-induced instabilities of temporal dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo

Temporal-dissipative Kerr solitons are self-localized light pulses sustained in driven nonlinear optical resonators. Their realization in microresonators has enabled compact sources of coherent optical frequency combs as well as the study of dissipative so ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Quantum cascade laser-based Kerr frequency comb generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Clément Christian Javerzac-Galy, John David Jost, Caroline Marie Anne Lecaplain

We report mid-infrared Kerr comb generation based on a quantum cascade laser pumping a crystalline microresonator. For the first time QCL light is coupled into a microresonator via a tapered chalcogenide fiber allowing mid-IR Kerr comb generation. ...

Ieee Computer Soc2016

Self-Referenced, Chipscale Kerr Frequency Comb without External Broadening

Tobias Kippenberg, Victor Brasch, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

A Kerr frequency comb generated in an integrated silicon nitride microresonator is self-referenced using the 2f-3f approach. With an intrinsic bandwidth of two-thirds of an octave no additional, external broadening of the spectrum is required. ...

Ieee2016

Study on the detuning-dependent properties of a temporal dissipative Kerr soliton in an optical microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost

Temporal dissipative Kerr solitons in a continuous-wave laser-driven nonlinear optical microresonator enable compact, high-repetition rate sources of ultrashort pulses and coherent broadband optical frequency combs. A central parameter in the soliton forma ...

2016

Counting the cycles of light using a self-referenced optical microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Victor Brasch, John David Jost, Caroline Marie Anne Lecaplain

Phase coherently linking optical-to-radio frequencies with femtosecond mode-locked laser frequency combs has enabled counting the cycles of light and is the basis of optical clocks, absolute frequency synthesis, tests of fundamental physics, and improved s ...

Optical Soc Amer2015

All-optical stabilization of a soliton frequency comb in a crystalline microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Victor Brasch, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Caroline Marie Anne Lecaplain

We demonstrate the all-optical stabilization of a low-noise temporal soliton based microresonator based optical frequency comb in a crystalline resonator via a new technique to control the repetition rate. This is accomplished by thermally heating the micr ...

Optical Society of America2015

Mode Spectrum and Temporal Soliton Formation in Optical Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Victor Brasch, John David Jost

The formation of temporal dissipative solitons in optical microresonators enables compact, high-repetition rate sources of ultrashort pulses as well as low noise, broadband optical frequency combs with smooth spectral envelopes. Here we study the influence ...

American Physical Society2014

Temporal solitons in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Victor Brasch, John David Jost

Temporal dissipative solitons in a continuous-wave laser-driven nonlinear optical microresonator were observed. The solitons were generated spontaneously when the laser frequency was tuned through the effective zero detuning point of a high-Q resonance, wh ...

Nature Publishing Group2014