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Chaotic microcomb-based parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Aleksandr Tusnin, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

The intrinsic random amplitude and phase modulation of 40 distinct lines of a microresonator frequency comb operated in the modulation instability regime are used to realize massively parallel random-modulation continuous-wave light detection and ranging, ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

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

Gigahertz free-space electro-optic modulators based on Mie resonances

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Sydney Rebecca Mason

Electro-optic modulators are essential for sensing, metrology and telecommunications. Most target fiber applications. Instead, metasurface-based architectures that modulate free-space light at gigahertz (GHz) speeds can boost flat optics technology by micr ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Ultrafast Transverse Modulation of Free Electrons by Interaction with Shaped Optical Fields

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Alexey Sapozhnik, Thomas La Grange, Phoebe Marie Tengdin, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani, Veronica Leccese

Spatiotemporal electron-beam shaping is a bold frontier of electron microscopy. Over the past decade, shaping methods evolved from static phase plates to low-speed electrostatic and magnetostatic displays. Recently, a swift change of paradigm utilizing lig ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

High speed, complex wavefront shaping using the digital micro-mirror device

Demetri Psaltis, Ahmed Ayoub

Digital micro-mirror devices (DMDs) have been deployed in many optical applications. As compared to spatial light modulators (SLMs), they are characterized by their much faster refresh rates (full-frame refresh rates up to 32 kHz for binary patterns) compa ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation

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

Integrated photonics facilitates extensive control over fundamental light-matter interactions in manifold quantum systems including atoms(1), trapped ions(2,3), quantum dots(4) and defect centres(5). Ultrafast electron microscopy has recently made free-ele ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

System and method for a retinal projector based on a scattering reflector

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser

A retinal projector system, comprising a coupling means, a spacial light modulator, and a tapered optical waveguide having an input side surface and an output side surface, whereby the input side surface is larger than the output side surface, the coupling ...

2020

Formation and Collision of Multistability-Enabled Composite Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Wenle Weng

Multistability in Kerr resonators which are driven by continuous or modulated optical waves gives rise to the superposition of distinct nonlinear states, yielding a unique platform for studying complex soliton dynamics. Here, by pumping a crystalline micro ...

American Physical Society2020

Optical Sinc-Shaped Nyquist Pulse Source Based on a Single Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Simon Julien Fabbri

We present a precise and flexible Sinc-shaped Nyquist pulse source based on a single Mach-Zehnder modulator. The use of multi-harmonic RF signals provides direct control on the Nyquist pulse train generation. The variable comb source is demonstrated by sel ...

2017

All-optical flip-flop based on dynamic Brillouin gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

One of the most essential building blocks in modem electronics is the flip-flop. A flip-flop operates bi-stably between two states, remaining at a given output level (high or low level) until a specific input control signal changes. For many years, photoni ...

IEEE2017

Microscopy and digital light shaping through optical fibers

Damien Claude-Marie Loterie

Microscopy is an essential tool in medicine and biomedical research. Traditional microscopes rely on bulky optics, complicating their usage when studying live animal tissues. In addition, light cannot penetrate very far in most biological tissues due to sc ...

EPFL2017

Terabit/s communications using chip-scale frequency comb sources

Tobias Kippenberg, Victor Brasch, Tobias Herr

High-speed optical interconnects rely on advanced wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) schemes. However, while photonic-electronic interfaces can be efficiently realized on silicon-on-insulator chips, dense integration of the necessary light sources stil ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Dynamic control of light transmission through multimode fibers

Ioannis Papadopoulos

In the present thesis we demonstrate how under the appropriate dynamic control of light propagation, multimode fibers can be transformed into deterministic optical elements that along with their ultrathin size, large number of degrees of freedom and high N ...

EPFL2014

Fabrication of Bragg gratings in microstructured and step index Bi-SiO2 optical fibers using an ArF laser

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis

An ArF excimer laser was used to fabricate Bragg gratings in fibers with Bi-SiO2 core and microstructured or F-doped claddings without fiber presensitization. Average and modulated refractive index changes of 2.7 x 10(-4) and 1.0 x 10(-4) were induced in p ...

Optical Society of America2012

Opto-acoustic coupling and Brillouin phenomena in microstructure optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Stella Foaleng Mafang, Duc Minh Nguyen

Like photonic crystals have revolutionized the way of manipulating optical waves at the sub-micron scale, phononic crystals have more recently played similar decisive role for sound waves, or more generally elastic waves. Then, the idea of coupling light a ...

IEEE2012

Local in vivo optical measurements of neurometabolic and neurovascular coupling mechanisms in the rodent cortex

Elena Migacheva

This thesis introduces a novel approach for in vivo separation and quantification of spatio-temporal dynamics of optical coefficients (absorption, scattering), oxygen saturation (SO2) and haemoglobin concentrations within rat brain somatosensory cortex und ...

EPFL2012

Correcting spherical aberrations induced by an unknown medium through determination of its refractive index and thickness

Pramod Rastogi, Daniel Iwaniuk

In imaging and focusing applications, spherical aberration induces axial broadening of the point spread function (PSF). A transparent medium between lens and object of interest induces spherical aberration. We propose a method that first obtains both the p ...

Optical Society of America2011

Combinatorial High-Vacuum Chemical Vapor Deposition of Lithium Niobate Thin Films

Ali Dabirian

Lithium niobate is a key material for photonics with applications in optical modulators and light frequency converters. Present lithium niobate optical devices are realized in bulk lithium niobate single crystals while interests in higher integration and a ...

EPFL2010

High volume confinement in two-photon total-internal- reflection fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Theo Lasser, Marcel Leutenegger, Iwan Märki, Denis Ivanov

We report results on two-photon total-internal-reflection fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with radially polarized light. The combination of liquid crystal spatial light modulator, providing radial polarization, with ultrafast laser (picosecond Nd:GdV ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2009

Long range epitaxial growth of prismatic heterostructures on the facets of catalyst-free GaAs nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Sonia Conesa Boj

Molecular beam epitaxy is used for the synthesis of catalyst-free GaAs nanowires and related quantum heterostructures. After growth of the nanowire GaAs core, the conditions are changed in situ towards standard MBE planar growth in order to obtain quantum ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2009