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Motional Sideband Asymmetry of a Solid-State Mechanical Resonator at Room Temperature

Tobias Kippenberg, Nils Johan Engelsen, Alberto Beccari, Amirali Arabmoheghi, Guanhao Huang

The motional sideband asymmetry of a mechanical oscillator interacting with a laser field can be observed when approaching the quantum ground state, where the zero-point energy of the mechanical oscillator becomes a sizable contribution to its motion. In t ...

2025

Observation of Fundamental Charge Noise in Electro-Optic Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Guanhao Huang, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

We observed that Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate photonic integrated microresonators exhibit an unexpected Flicker type (i.e. 1/f1.2) scaling in the intrinsic refractive noise spectrum, significantly deviating from the well-established thermorefracti ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics

Guanhao Huang

Quantum optics studies how photons interact with other forms of matter, the understanding of which was crucial for the development of quantum mechanics as a whole. Starting from the photoelectric effect, the quantum property of light has led to the develop ...

EPFL2024

Observation of Fundamental Charge Noise in Electro-Optic Photonics Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Guanhao Huang, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

We observed a novel 1/f-type frequency noise in Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate microresonators, distinct from thermorefractive noise and originating from thermodynamic charge fluctuations, setting the linewidth limits for integrated lasers. A charge ...

Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)2024

Room-temperature quantum optomechanics using an ultralow noise cavity

Tobias Kippenberg, Nils Johan Engelsen, Alberto Beccari, Guanhao Huang

At room temperature, mechanical motion driven by the quantum backaction of light has been observed only in pioneering experiments in which an optical restoring force controls the oscillator stiffness1,2. For solid-state mechanical resonators in which oscil ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Probing the Formation of Nonlinear Optical States with Free Electrons

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

Combining nonlinear integrated photonics with electron microscopy, we probe the formation of optical dissipative structures in Si3N4 microresonators with free electrons and find unique spectral fingerprints in the electron spectrum that enable new electron ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Coupling Free Electrons and Cavity Photons in a Transmission Electron Microscope

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

We couple free electrons to the optical modes of a photonic microring resonator. Inelastic electron scattering leads to the generation of cavity photons, correlated to the electrons in time and energy loss. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Free-electron interaction with nonlinear optical states in microresonators

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

The short de Broglie wavelength and strong interaction empower free electrons to probe structures and excitations in materials and biomolecules. Recently, electron-photon interactions have enabled new optical manipulation schemes for electron beams. In thi ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2024

Lithium-niobate-based narrow-linewidth frequency agile integrated lasers with petahertz frequency tuning rate

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Guanhao Huang, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev

We demonstrate an electro-optically tunable hybrid integrated laser self-injection locked to a mode of a heterogeneously integrated lithium-niobate-on-Damascene-silicon-nitride microresonator. An intrinsic linewidth of 3 kHz and a frequency tuning rate of ...

IEEE2023

Framework of Free-Electron Quantum Optics Using Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Nils Johan Engelsen, Guanhao Huang

We develop a framework of using photonic integrated circuits for free-electron quantum optics applications. We formulate the interaction using a three-dimensional QED quantization procedure, and discuss a few fundamental limitations and specific applicatio ...

Optical Society of America2023

Electron-Photon Quantum State Heralding Using Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Guanhao Huang

Recently, integrated photonic circuits have brought new capabilities to electron microscopy and been used to demonstrate efficient electron phase modulation and electron-photon correlations. Here, we quanti-tatively analyze the feasibility of high-fidelity ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Photon Fock State Generation in Photonic Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

We generate correlated pairs of free electrons and cavity photons by sending an electron beam across a photonic microresonator and filtering temporal coincidences. We further characterize the pairs analogue to a heralded single photon source. ...

Optical Society of America2023

Ultralow Dissipation Mechanical Resonators for Cavity-Free Quantum Control

Tobias Kippenberg, Nils Johan Engelsen, Alberto Beccari, Amirali Arabmoheghi, Guanhao Huang

We fabricate nanomechanical resonators with Q > 109 at room temperature and show efficient optical readout of their motion. With an improved interferometer, these devices can be cooled close to the ground state without a cavity. ...

Optical Society of America2023

Free Electron Interaction with Nonlinear Optical States

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

We couple free electrons with nonlinear optical states and frequency combs in photonic chip-based microresonators. Intracavity nonlinear dissipative structures including optical solitons imprint unique fingerprints in electron spectra and their Ramsey inte ...

Optical Society of America2023

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Guanhao Huang, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev

Early works(1) and recent advances in thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator have enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits(2,3), modulators with improved half-wave voltage(4,5), electro-optic frequency combs(6) and on-chip electro-optic devic ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Lithium-Niobate-Based Frequency-Agile Integrated Lasers

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Grigorii Likhachev, Guanhao Huang, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev

We demonstrate narrow- linewidth ultrafast tunable integrated lasers based on heterogeneously integrated thin-film lithium niobate on ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonic circuits. Using self-injection locking of a hybrid microresonator, we a ...

IEEE2022

Reduced material loss in thin-film lithium niobate waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Di Zhu, Guanhao Huang, Mikhail Churaev, Zihan Li

Thin-film lithium niobate has shown promise for scalable applications ranging from single-photon sources to high-bandwidth data communication systems. Realization of the next generation high-performance classical and quantum devices, however, requires much ...

AIP Publishing2022

Perimeter Modes of Nanomechanical Resonators Exhibit Quality Factors Exceeding 10(9) at Room Temperature

Tobias Kippenberg, Sergey Fedorov, Nils Johan Engelsen, Alberto Beccari, Amirali Arabmoheghi, Guanhao Huang

Systems with low mechanical dissipation are extensively used in precision measurements such as gravitational wave detection, atomic force microscopy, and quantum control of mechanical oscillators via optomechanics and electromechanics. The mechanical quali ...

American Physical Society2022

Cavity-mediated electron-photon pairs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

Quantum information, communication, and sensing rely on the generation and control of quantum correlations in complementary degrees of freedom. Free electrons coupled to photonics promise novel hybrid quantum technologies, although single-particle correlat ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Dissipative Quantum Feedback in Measurements Using a Parametrically Coupled Microcavity

Tobias Kippenberg, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni, Guanhao Huang

Micro- and nanoscale optical or microwave cavities are used in a wide range of classical applications and quantum science experiments, ranging from precision measurements, laser technologies to quantum control of mechanical motion. The dissipative photon l ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022