Publications by Marco Clementi

Ultrabroadband milliwatt-level resonant frequency doubling on a chip

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Ji Zhou

Microresonators are powerful tools to enhance the efficiency of second-order nonlinear optical processes, such as second-harmonic generation, which can coherently bridge octave-spaced spectral bands. However, dispersion constraints such as phase-matching a ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Self-organized spatiotemporal quasi-phase-matching in microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Marco Clementi, Ji Zhou

Quasi-phase-matching (QPM) is a widely adopted technique for mitigating stringent momentum conservation in nonlinear optical processes such as second-harmonic generation (SHG). It effectively compensates for the phase velocity mismatch between optical harm ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

UV, visible and near-infrared light generation through cascaded nonlinear processes in silicon-nitride microring resonators pumped at telecom wavelength

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Boris Zabelich, Marco Clementi

On-chip coherent light generation has wide-ranging applications in metrology, spectroscopy, quantum optics, etc. In this study, we demonstrate the generation of coherent light from a silicon-nitride microring resonator using cascaded nonlinear processes. T ...

SPIE2024

Generation of entangled photon pairs from a silicon bichromatic photonic crystal cavity

Matteo Galli, Thanavorn Poempool, Marco Clementi

Integrated quantum photonics leverages the on-chip generation of nonclassical states of light to realize key functionalities of quantum devices. Typically, the generation of such nonclassical states relies on whispering gallery mode resonators, such as int ...

Aip Publishing2024

Dissipative Kerr soliton generation at 2μm in a silicon nitride microresonator

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Ozan Yakar, Marco Clementi, Christian André Clément Lafforgue, Anamika Nair Karunakaran

Chip -scale optical frequency combs enable the generation of highly -coherent pulsed light at gigahertz-level repetition rates, with potential technological impact ranging from telecommunications to sensing and spectroscopy. In combination with techniques ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Spatiotemporal Quasi-Phase-Matching in Microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Marco Clementi, Ji Zhou

We show how spatiotemporal quasi-phase-matching emerges from all-optical poling of silicon nitride microresonators. Enabled by the coherent photogalvanic effect, the photoinduced χ(2) grating oscillates in space and time, yielding quasi-phase-matched and D ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Thermo-optic epsilon-near-zero effects

Camille Sophie Brès, Qian Li, Jiaye Wu, Marco Clementi

Nonlinear epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nanodevices featuring vanishing permittivity and CMOS-compatibility are attractive solutions for large-scale-integrated systems-on-chips. Such confined systems with unavoidable heat generation impose critical challenges fo ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Versatile and Efficient Dual-Range Frequency Shifts by Intracavity Epsilon-Near-Zero Nanolayers

Camille Sophie Brès, Jiaye Wu, Marco Clementi, Ji Zhou

We experimentally demonstrate for the first time, the efficient input-dependent dual-range frequency shifts of 279.73 GHz and 3.63 THz in a mode-locked fiber laser with an intracavity epsilon-near-zero element. Real-time observation reveals that the presen ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Intracavity Epsilon-Near-Zero Dual-Range Frequency Switch

Camille Sophie Brès, Jiaye Wu, Marco Clementi, Ji Zhou

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nanophotonic devices with zero permittivity are known to exhibit adiabatic frequency translation via temporal refraction under extracavity excitation by intense light sources, which are however hard to integrate on-chip owing to a h ...

2024

Second-Harmonic Generation via All-Optical Poling in Linearly Uncoupled Silicon Nitride Microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Ji Zhou

We present a novel device consisting of two microring resonators coupled by the second-order nonlinear interaction. By independently controlling the microresonators' linear properties, we engineer efficient second-harmonic generation through photo-induced ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Broadband Resonant Second-Harmonic Generation in Silicon Nitride Microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Ji Zhou

We develop a device consisting of two silicon nitride microresonators coupled by photo-induced second-order nonlinearity. By electrically reconfiguring its linear properties, we engineer efficient resonant frequency doubling in the telecom band and show th ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Epsilon-near-zero Enhancement of Linear and Nonlinear Thermo-optic Effects

Camille Sophie Brès, Jiaye Wu, Marco Clementi

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials, characterized by their near-zero permittivity, ease of fabrication, enhanced nonlinearity, and compatibility for nano-fabrication, have positioned themselves as alluring solutions for large-scale integrated systems-on-chi ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

A silicon source of frequency-bin entangled photons (vol 47, pg 6201, 2022)

Marco Clementi

2023

Programmable frequency-bin quantum states in a nano-engineered silicon device

Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi

Frequency-bin qubits get the best of time-bin and dual-rail encodings, but require external modulators and pulse shapers to build arbitrary states. Here, instead, the authors work directly on-chip by controlling the interference of biphoton amplitudes gene ...

Nature Portfolio2023

A chip-scale second-harmonic source via self-injection-locked all-optical poling

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

Second-harmonic generation allows for coherently bridging distant regions of the optical spectrum, with applications ranging from laser technology to self-referencing of frequency combs. However, accessing the nonlinear response of a medium typically requi ...

2023

Bright and dark Talbot pulse trains on a chip

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Edgars Nitiss, Jiaye Wu, Marco Clementi, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

Temporal Talbot effect, the intriguing phenomenon of the self-imaging of optical pulse trains, is extensively investigated using macroscopic components. However, the ability to manipulate pulse trains, either bright or dark, through the Talbot effect on in ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Self-injection Locked Second-Harmonic Generation in Optically Poled Silicon Nitride Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

We present a narrow-linewidth second-harmonic source based on a laser diode injection locked to an optically poled silicon nitride microresonator. The device is a compact, highly-coherent dual-wavelength source, with high conversion efficiency up to 280%/W ...

2023

Single SiGe quantum dot emission deterministically enhanced in a high-Q photonic crystal resonator

Marco Clementi

We report the resonantly enhanced radiative emission from a single SiGe quantum dot (QD), which is deterministically embedded into a bichromatic photonic crystal resonator (PhCR) at the position of its largest modal electric field by a scalable method. By ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Mid-IR Soliton Microcomb Generation in Silicon Nitride Microring Resonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Ozan Yakar, Marco Clementi, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

We demonstrate soliton Kerr-comb generation in a high-Q silicon nitride microring with 143 GHz free spectral range pumped at 1970 nm. The resulting low noise ultrafast pulse train displays a 422 nm bandwidth, extending up to 2250 nm. ...

2023

A silicon source of frequency-bin entangled photons

Marco Clementi

We demonstrate an integrated source of frequency-entangled photon pairs on a silicon photonics chip. The emitter has a coincidence-to-accidental ratio exceeding 10(3). We prove entanglement by showing two-photon frequency interference with a visibility of ...

2022