Publications related to Recent progress in wafer-fused VECSELs emitting in the 1310 nm waveband

Femtosecond-laser direct-write photoconductive patterns on tellurite glass

Yves Bellouard, Gözden Torun, Anastasia Romashkina

We report the formation of arbitrary photoconductive patterns made of tellurium (Te) nanocrystals by exposing a tellurite (TeO2-based) glass to femtosecond laser pulses. During this process, Te/TeO2-glass nanocomposite interfaces with photoconductive prope ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

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

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

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

Ultra low quantum decoherence nano-optomechanical systems

Mohammadjafar Bereyhi

Thermal motion of a room-temperature mechanical resonator typically dominates the quantum backaction of its position measurement. This is a longstanding barrier for exploring cavity optomechanics at room temperature. In order to enter the quantum regime of ...

EPFL2022

Low-noise frequency-agile photonic integrated lasers for coherent ranging

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Andrey Voloshin, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev, Vladimir Shadymov

Stable and tunable integrated lasers are fundamental building blocks for applications from spectroscopy to imaging and communication. Here the authors present a narrow linewidth hybrid photonic integrated laser with low frequency noise and fast linear wave ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Probing unconventional performance of fiber resonators: light storage, generation and manipulation

Ivan Cardea

This thesis aims at investigating the performance of figure-9 (figure-of-nine) optical fiber resonators as a practical solution for light storage, light generation and manipulation. The first part of the thesis focuses on a theoretical and experimental stu ...

EPFL2021

Surface-based luminescence measurement substrate

Raphaël Barbey, Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes

Surface-based measurement substrate including: • - at least one optical cavity layer (7); • - a first optical mirror (9) and a second optical mirror (11), the first and second optical mirrors enclosing the optical cavity layer and defining an optical cavit ...

2020

Mask-aligner Talbot lithography using a 193 nm CW light source

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Raoul Kirner, Andreas Vetter

We present and discuss Talbot mask-aligner lithography, relying on a continuous wave laser emitting at 193nm for the illumination. In this source, a diode laser at 772nm is amplified by a tapered amplifier in master-oscillator power-amplifier configuration ...

2018

Non-reciprocal optical mirrors based on spatio-temporal acousto-optic modulation

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

Here, we investigate a scheme to realize free-space isolators and highly non-reciprocal mirrors with weak modulation imparted by an acoustic wave. We propose a strategy to dramatically break time-reversal symmetry by exploiting resonant interactions betwee ...

2018

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

Effect of Cavity Lifetime Variation on the Static and Dynamic Properties of 1.3-μm Wafer-Fused VCSELs

Elyahou Kapon, Alexei Sirbu, Vladimir Iakovlev, Grigore Suruceanu, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Zlatko Mickovic, Dalila Ellafi

We investigate experimentally the impact of photon cavity lifetime variations on the static and dynamic performance of high-speed 1.3-mu m wavelength wafer-fused vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). The photon lifetime is modified by decreasin ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

750 nm 1.5 W frequency-doubled semiconductor disk laser with a 44 nm tuning range

Elyahou Kapon, Alexei Sirbu, Vladimir Iakovlev

We demonstrate 1.5 W of output power at the wavelength of 750 nm by intracavity frequency doubling a wafer-fused semiconductor disk laser diode-pumped at 980 nm. An optical-to-optical efficiency of 8.3% was achieved using a bismuth borate crystal. The wave ...

Optical Society of America2015

Isolator-free unidirectionalthulium-doped fiber laser

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

We report the first demonstration of a unidirectional, isolator-free 2-mmthulium-doped fiber (TDF) laser, relying on the properties of the theta cavity (ring resonator with S-shaped feedback). The core pumped theta cavity TDF laser provides sub-Watt output ...

2015

Analysis of structurally sensitive loss in GaN-based VCSEL cavities and its effect on modal discrimination

Gatien Cosendey, Nicolas Grandjean, Ehsan Hashemi

Lateral loss causes optical energy to leave the laser cavity in the transverse, lateral, direction, and is sometimes neglected to simplify the numerical simulations. However, in contrast to outcoupling and absorption losses, we show that the lateral loss c ...

Optical Soc Amer2014

Wafer-fused VECSELs emitting in the 1310 nm waveband

Elyahou Kapon, Alexei Sirbu, Vladimir Iakovlev, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Nicolas Volet, Kamil Pawel Pierscinski

Optically pumped wafer fused 1310 nm VECSELs have the advantage of high output power and wavelength agility. Gain mirrors in these lasers are formed by direct bonding of InAlGaAs/InP active cavities to Al(Ga) As/GaAs DBRs. We present for the first time Wat ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Analysis and Control of Optical Modes in VCSELs and VCSEL-Arrays

Elodie Lamothe

In this thesis, we studied the modal structure and the polarization of the optical field emitted by vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) emitting in the short- and long-wavelength domains (0.9-1.3μm). Our study concerns two types of components: ...

EPFL2013

Polarization mode structure in long-wavelength wafer-fused vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Elyahou Kapon, Alexei Sirbu, Vladimir Iakovlev, Grigore Suruceanu, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Nicolas Volet

Applications of long-wavelength (lambda > 1 mu m) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) generally require close control over wavelength and polarization of the emitted light. In most cases, single mode and polarization stable lasing is desired. ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2012

Wafer-Fused 1310 nm and 1550 nm Mode-Locked Semiconductor Disk Lasers

Elyahou Kapon, Alexei Sirbu, Vladimir Iakovlev, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman

We report on fabrication and performance of wafer fused, high power, passively mode-locked semiconductor disc lasers operating in 1310 nm and 1550 nm bands. These devices comprise gain mirrors based on InAlGaAs/InP multi quantum well active regions fused t ...

Ieee2011

Recent Progress in Wafer-Fused VCSELs Emitting in the 1550-nm Band

Elyahou Kapon, Alexei Sirbu, Vladimir Iakovlev, Grigore Suruceanu, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman

Record-high fundamental mode output power of 1.5 mW at 100 degrees C is achieved with InAlGaAs-InP/AlGaAs-GaAs 1550 nm wavelength vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) produced by a modified wafer fusion technique. A broad wavelength setting on ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011