Publications by Svyatoslav Kharitonov

Design and analysis of depolarized four-wave mixing in dhalcogenide photonic crystal fibers

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Arman Ayan

IEEE2021

Add-Drop Multiplexing Architecture for Nyquist OTDM Signals Based on a Single Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Jianqi Hu, Simon Julien Fabbri

We propose and compare add-drop multiplexing schemes for Nyquist OTDM signals based on 1 x2 or 2 x2 Mach-Zehnder modulator. Bright and dark sinc pulse carver simultaneously provided by the modulator fulfil drop, notch and add functions. ...

IEEE2019

Microjoule-level widely tunable gain-switched thuliumdoped fiber laser

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

We demonstrate the hybrid-pumped (continuous-wave+pulsed) gain-switched smallcore thulium-doped fiber laser tunable in 1825-2064nm spectral range that delivers 50-300ns pulses with energies up to 12μJ (65μJ of injected pump) reaching performance of larger- ...

OSA Publishing2019

Linearly chirped mid-infrared supercontinuum in all-normal-dispersion chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Sida Xing, Jianqi Hu

2018

Fiber fuse in chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Sida Xing, Jianqi Hu

We observe fiber fuse in tapered GeAsSe photonic crystal fibers (PCF) at around 7 MW∕cm2 of intra-core intensity. Vertically cleaved facets from the un-tapered regions and the tapered regions were imaged. The images show shallow voids of different shapes c ...

2018

Theta laser

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

An unidirectional short-wave infrared fiber laser, comprising a theta cavity, with a gain unit based on rare-earth cations-doped fiber, the theta cavity having a ring cavity with two additional 2 input ports×2 output ports directional couplers DC1 and DC2 ...

2018

Experimental and theoretical investigation of the operating principles of the Figure-9 laser, Advanced Photonics 2018 (BGPP, IPR, NP, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, SOF)

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Ivan Cardea

We present a theoretical vectorial model, validated by experimental measurements, describing the dependence of the Figure-9 laser output power, operating in continuous wave, on the coupling ratio of the directional coupler. ...

Optical Society of America2018

Mid-infrared continuous-wave parametric amplification in chalcogenide microstructured fibers

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Davide Grassani, Sida Xing

The persistent growth of interest in the middle infrared (MIR) is stimulating the development of sources and components. Novel waveguides and fibers for the efficient use of nonlinear effects in the MIR are being intensively studied. Highly nonlinear silic ...

2017

MIR supercontinuum in all-normal dispersion Chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers pumped with 2μm femtosecond laser

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Davide Grassani, Sida Xing, Jianqi Hu

We demonstrate mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in an all-normal dispersion Chalcogenide PCF pumped by fiber laser. The -20dB bandwidth is 1.7~2.7μm dominated by self-phase modulation and optical wave breaking. Tapering is proposed to improve perform ...

OSA2017

Unidirectional isolator-free 2 micron fiber lasers

Svyatoslav Kharitonov

This thesis presents results of a research on unidirectional isolator-free cavity lasers, exploiting thulium-doped fiber (TDF) as amplification medium and operating in \unit[2]{\mu m} wavelength range. For fibre ring resonator, an optical isolator should b ...

EPFL2017

Large second harmonic generation enhancement in Si3N4 waveguides by all-optically induced quasiphase- matching

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Camille Sophie Brès, Adrien Billat, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Davide Grassani

Efficient second harmonic generation in integrated platforms is usually achieved by resonant structures, intermodal phase-matching or quasi-phase matching by periodically poling ferroelectric waveguides. However, in all these structures, it is impossible t ...

Nature Research2017

Broadband Dispersion Characterization of Chalcogenide Tapered Photonic Crystal Fiber

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Sida Xing

Group-velocity dispersion of birefringent GeAsSe tapered PCF is directly measured over 1900-2300nm range using all-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer. We experimentally prove that zero-dispersion wavelength of chalcogenide PCFs can be shifted to thulium/hol ...

2017

All-optically induced quasi phase matching in SiN waveguides for second harmonic generation enhancement

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Camille Sophie Brès, Adrien Billat, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Davide Grassani

We report more than 30dB second harmonic generation enhancement in SiN waveguide by all-optical writing of a persistent χ(2) grating. Phase matching peaks are observed for different writing wavelengths. ...

OSA Publishing2017

Dual-Emission Band All-Fiber Laser based on Theta Cavity with Thulium- and Holmium-Doped Fibers

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

We present first dual-wavelength all-fiber laser, based on isolator-free theta cavity with two fiber Bragg mirrors and thulium- and holmium-doped fibers. Laser provides 350mW total power with 8% slope efficiency, and linewidth less than 01.mm. ...

Ieee2017

Stable 2.1 μm near 100% polarized Ho-doped all-fiber laser based on a polarizer-free cavity scheme

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Davide Grassani, Sida Xing, Jianqi Hu

A highly polarized Ho-doped truly all-fibre laser was demonstrated without in-cavity polarizer. Utilizing PM-FBG and loop mirror, maximum 0.5W output power with 30% slope efficiency, 70dB ASE suppression and 99.997% degree of polarization was recorded at 2 ...

2017

All-fibered chalcogenide based continuous-wave parametric amplification in the mid-infrared

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Davide Grassani, Sida Xing

We demonstrate parametric amplification around 2 μm in a dispersion engineered tapered microstructured chalcogenide fiber. Almost 5 dB of signal amplification was achieved by 125 mW coupled power from a thulium-doped fiber pump laser. ...

OSA Publishing2017

Broadband Characterization of ZBLAN Fiber for Short- Wave Infrared Applications Using All-Fiber Interferometer

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

Group-velocity dispersion, third-order dispersion and propagation losses of 14m normal dispersion ZBLAN fiber are directly and continuously measured over 1500-2100nm range using all-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The fiber is then used for dispersion c ...

Ieee2016

Generation of high-brightness spectrally flat supercontinuum in 1900-2450 nm range inside a small core thulium-doped fiber amplifier

Thibault Emmanuel North, Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Davide Grassani, Sida Xing

We demonstrate the generation of high-brightness supercontinuum inside thuliumdoped fiber amplifier in 1950-2450nm spectral range with 1.7W output power and 32% slope efficiency, seeded by tunable 2000nm mode-locked laser and assisted by 3H4-3H5/3F4-3H6 th ...

OSA Publishing2016

Unidirectional all-fiber thulium-doped laser based on theta cavity and fiber Bragg grating as filtering element

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

We present first all-fiber unidirectional ring thulium-doped laser, based on isolator-free theta cavity configuration and fiber Bragg mirror as filtering element. Laser provides 1W output power with 30% slope efficiency, and linewidth of about 0.2nm. ...

OSA Publishing2016

Characterization and modeling of microstructured chalcogenide fibers for efficient mid-infrared wavelength conversion

Camille Sophie Brès, Adrien Billat, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Davide Grassani, Sida Xing

We experimentally demonstrate wavelength conversion in the 2 μm region by four-wave mixing in an AsSe and a GeAsSe chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers. A maximum conversion efficiency of −25.4 dB is measured for 112 mW of coupled continuous wave pump in a ...

Optical Society of America2016