Publications by Mikhail Churaev

An Ultra-Broadband Gallium Phosphide Optical Parametric Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Alberto Nardi, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

Optical parametric amplification [1], which utilizes material nonlinearities, has long been considered one approach to increase channel capacity, but the technical complexity of systems using highly nonlinear fibers or bulk waveguides restricts their pract ...

IEEE2025

An ultra-broadband photonic-chip-based parametric amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Alberto Nardi, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

Optical amplification, crucial for modern communication, primarily relies on erbium-doped fibre amplifiers (EDFAs)1,2. Yet, EDFAs only cover a portion of the low-loss spectrum of optical fibres. This has motivated the development of amplifiers operating be ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Travelling-Wave Optical Parametric Amplification in Gallium Phosphide Integrated Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Alberto Nardi, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

We demonstrate integrated optical continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifiers that significantly surpass the amplification bandwidth of traditional Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers. Using a 5.55-cm-long integrated gallium phosphide waveguide, we achieve ...

SPIE2024

Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for high volume manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li

We demonstrate the first photonic integrated circuit platform using Lithium Tantalate (LiTaO3), achieving waveguides with low losses (5.6 dB m−1), Mach-Zehnder modulators with a 40 GHz electro-optical bandwidth and a 1.96 V · cm voltage-length product, alo ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

An Integrated Gallium Phosphide Optical Parametric Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Alberto Nardi, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

Optical parametric amplification is a promising alternative to traditional erbium-doped amplifiers, offering unidirectional, low-noise, and broadband amplification. Here we present an integrated continuous-traveling-wave parametric amplifier that surpasses ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Integrated microwave photonics using thin-film lithium niobate on silicon nitride

Mikhail Churaev

Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) is a key material in photonics due to its exceptional properties. The linear electro-optic effect, also known as the Pockels effect, in lithium niobate induces a linear change in the refractive index when an electric field is appli ...

EPFL2024

Broadband and turnkey Pockels micro-comb with Monolithic Microwave Resonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Jianqi Hu, Mikhail Churaev, Junyin Zhang

We demonstrate a fully hybrid integrated electrooptic comb generator based on a dispersion engineered thin-film Lithium Tantalate microresonator featuring robust turnkey operation and record-broad >200nm span covering the entire telecommunications S, C, an ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Ultrabroadband Integrated Triply Resonant Electro-Optic Frequency Comb in Lithium Tantalate

Tobias Kippenberg, Jianqi Hu, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

We demonstrated an integrated electro-optic frequency comb generator with 450nm span and 29.6GHz spacing, entirely covering optical telecom E-, S-, C-, L-, and U-bands, via monolithic co-integration of microwave and photonics resonators on thin-film lithiu ...

Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)2024

Lithium Tantalate Photonic Integrated Circuits (Student Paper)

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li

We demonstrate a wafer-scale lithium tantalate photonic platform with loss as low as 5.5 dB m(-1). Mach-Zehnder modulators with a 40 GHz electro-optical bandwidth and a 1.96 V center dot cm voltage-length product, along with microresonators supporting diss ...

Springer Nature2024

Integrated lithium tantalate electro-optic modulator

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Junyin Zhang

We demonstrate an integrated lithium tantalate electro-optic Mach-Zehnder modulator exhibiting the voltage-length product of 3.7 V·cm and bandwidth of at least 67 GHz. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Kai Huang, Chen Yang, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Yang Chen, Zihan Li, Alisa Davydova, Xi Wang, Junyin Zhang

Electro-optical photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) have demonstrated the vast capabilities of materials with a high Pockels coefficient1,2. They enable linear and high-speed modulators operating at complementary metal–oxi ...

2024

Broadband and high-gain continuous-wave parametric amplification in a Gallium Phosphide waveguide

Tobias Kippenberg, Alberto Nardi, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

We demonstrate the first broadband and high gain third-order parametric optical amplifier in a 5.5 cm long GaP waveguide spiral with up to 25 dB net gain off-chip and more than 10 dB amplification over a bandwidth of 140 nm. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Ultrabroadband thin-film lithium tantalate modulator for high-speed communications

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

The continuous growth of global data traffic over the past three decades, along with advances in disaggregated computing architectures, presents significant challenges for optical transceivers in communication networks and high-performance computing system ...

2024

An Integrated Gallium Phosphide Travelling-Wave Optical Parametric Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Alberto Nardi, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

We demonstrate optical continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplification in a 5.55-cm-long integrated gallium phosphide waveguide, achieving up to 35 dB of gain and significantly surpassing the bandwidth of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. ...

Optical Society of America2024

Hybrid lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride platform for mid-IR supercontinuum generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev

Integrated optics has shown itself very convenient for exploiting nonlinear processes as it results in high confinement factor, freedom of dispersion engineering and compactness. However, the choice of materials is crucial for the development of nonlinear ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2023

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

High-density lithium niobate integrated photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Zihan Li

We demonstrate a strip waveguide-based LiNbO3 photonic integrated circuit fabricated with a novel hard mask, diamond-like-carbon (DLC). The steep sidewall configuration exhibits tight optical confinement and dispersion control while preserving ultra-low lo ...

Optical Society of America2023

A heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride photonic platform

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev

The availability of thin-film lithiumniobate on insulator (LNOI) and advances in processing have led to the emergence of fully integrated LiNbO3 electro-optic devices. Yet to date, LiNbO3 photonic integrated circuits have mostly been fabricated using non-s ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Low-loss heterogeneously integrated barium-titanate-on-silicon-nitride photonics

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Viacheslav Snigirev

We present a hybrid barium titanate photonics platform exhibiting exceptionally low losses of 0.7 dB/cm and realize ring resonators with intrinsic quality factors exceeding 6×105. Measurement of Vπ L = 0.56 V·cm in electro-optic modulation experiments demo ...

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