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Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization

Photonics integrated circuits are a promising solution for the growing demands of data transmission and future system-on-chip technologies. Within this context, nonlinear optical interactions offer unique opportunities for all-optical processing, sampling, ...

EPFL2024

Linear and nonlinear applications of miniaturized silicon nitride microresonators

Arslan Sajid Raja

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are the subject of massive interest due to the range of applications they can provide at a huge scale while building on well-established CMOS technologies. One of the critical parameters defining a technology's maturity ...

EPFL2023

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

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

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Sub-kHz-Linewidth External-Cavity Laser (ECL) With Si3N4 Resonator Used as a Tunable Pump for a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu

Combining optical gain in direct-bandgap III-V materials with tunable optical feedback offered by advanced photonic integrated circuits is key to chip-scale external-cavity lasers (ECL), offering wideband tunability along with low optical linewidths. Exter ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

A photonic integrated circuit-based erbium-doped amplifier

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk, Jijun He, Xinru Ji, Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic integrated circuits but their use remains impractical as a result of insuf ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Dual chirped microcomb based parallel ranging at megapixel-line rates

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

Photonic integrated systems can be harnessed for fast and efficient optical telecommunication and metrology technologies. Here the authors develop a dual-soliton microcomb technique for massively parallel coherent laser ranging that requires only a single ...

Nature Portfolio2022

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Nikolai Kuznetsov

The ability to amplify optical signals is of pivotal importance across science and technology typically using rare-earth-doped fibres or gain media based on III-V semiconductors. A different physical process to amplify optical signals is to use the Kerr no ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

All-optical switching in epsilon-near-zero asymmetric directional coupler

Qian Li, Jiaye Wu

We propose an all-optical switch based on an asymmetric directional coupler structure with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) layer. The nonlinear optical properties the of ENZ layer are analyzed by hot-electron dynamics process, and the all-optical operating perform ...

Nature Portfolio2022

A Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based Erbium-doped Waveguide Amplifier

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Xinru Ji, Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu

We demonstrate an erbium-doped waveguide amplifier by erbium ion implantation in Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits, achieving 145 mW on-chip output power and more than 30 dB small-signal gain, which is on par with commercial fiber amplifiers and beyond st ...

IEEE2022

Ultrafast dynamic switching of optical response based on nonlinear hyperbolic metamaterial platform

Qian Li, Jiaye Wu

The pursuit of high-speed and on-chip optical communication systems has promoted extensive exploration of all-optical control of light-matter interactions via nonlinear optical processes. Here, we have numerically investigated the ultrafast dynamic switchi ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Sensitivity and spectral control of network lasers

Alexis Arnaudon, Dinika Saxena

Recently, random lasing in complex networks has shown efficient lasing over more than 50 localised modes, promoted by multiple scattering over the underlying graph. If controlled, these network lasers can lead to fast-switching multifunctional light source ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Design and Fabrication of Stretchable Photonic Fibers

Nicola Bartolomei

Optical fibers have reshaped the technological landscape, from optical networks and high-speed data communication to in situ imaging and non-invasive surgery methods. The revolution allowed by these fibers has been made possible by its fabrication method, ...

EPFL2021

Giant Brillouin Amplification in Gas Using Hollow-core Fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger

Optical amplification in hollow core fibers has been achieved using stimulated Brillouin scattering directly in the gaseous medium. More than 50 dB optical gain is observed over 50 m of fiber using 200 mW of pump power. ...

Optical Society of America2021

A tunable femtosecond fiber laser source for multiphoton emission microscopy

Pierre-Marc Jean Marie Dansette

Second harmonic generation microscopy is used to image interfaces or non-centrosymmetric structures and molecules. Two-photon fluorescence microscopy can image molecules within cells without using markers. Thus those technics have lead to advances in our u ...

EPFL2021

Femtosecond laser-based optomechanical processes for permanent and high-precision fine alignment of optical systems

Saood Ibni Nazir

Miniaturization has been at the forefront of scientific research in the past decade covering diverse areas such as electronics, mechanics, and optics. While 'small is beautiful' may be a vast generalization, the true benefits of miniaturization are especia ...

EPFL2021

Ultralow-noise photonic microwave synthesis using a soliton microcomb-based transfer oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

The synthesis of ultralow-noise microwaves is of both scientific and technological relevance for timing, metrology, communications and radio-astronomy. Today, the lowest reported phase noise signals are obtained via optical frequency-division using mode-lo ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Frequency division using a soliton-injected semiconductor gain-switched frequency comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng

With optical spectral marks equally spaced by a frequency in the microwave or the radio frequency domain, optical frequency combs have been used not only to synthesize optical frequencies from microwave references but also to generate ultralow-noise microw ...

2020

Performance of chip-scale optical frequency comb generators in coherent WDM communications

Tobias Kippenberg

Optical frequency combs have the potential to become key building blocks of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) communication systems. The strictly equidistant narrow-band spectral lines of a frequency comb can serve either as carriers for parallel WDM ...

2020