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Photo-induced cascaded harmonic and comb generation in silicon nitride microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Jianqi Hu, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) is an ever-maturing integrated platform for nonlinear optics but mostly considered for third-order [chi(3)] nonlinear interactions. Recently, second-order [chi(2)] nonlinearity was introduced into Si3N4 via the photogalvanic effect, ...

2022

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

Microresonator Dissipative Kerr Solitons Synchronized to an Optoelectronic Oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

Using phase-modulation-induced potential gradient whose period is synchronized to a microwave opto-electronic oscillator, dissipative Kerr solitons generated in a crystalline optical microresonator are trapped by the soliton tweezing effect, exhibiting a s ...

American Physical Society (APS)2022

Zero dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng, Alexey Tikan

Solitons are shape preserving waveforms that are ubiquitous across nonlinear dynamical systems from BEC to hydrodynamics, and fall into two separate classes: bright solitons existing in anomalous group velocity dispersion, and switching waves forming 'dark ...

Nature Research2022

Platicon microcomb generation using laser self-injection locking

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Yang Liu

The past decade has witnessed major advances in the development and system-level applications of photonic integrated microcombs, that are coherent, broadband optical frequency combs with repetition rates in the millimeter-wave to terahertz domain. Most of ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Optical Gyrator and Microwave-to-Optical Converter using HBAR modes

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anat Siddharth

IEEE2021

Coherent terahertz-to-microwave link using electro-optic-modulated Turing rolls

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth

Arising from modulation instability, Turing rolls in optical Kerr microresonators have been used in the generation of optical frequency combs and the synthesis of microwave and terahertz frequencies. In this work, by applying electro-optic modulation on te ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Low-noise, Frequency-agile, Hybrid Integrated Laser for LiDAR

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

We demonstrate a hybrid photonic integrated laser with intrinsic linewidth of 40 Hz, while offering megahertz actuation bandwidth with the tuning range larger than 1 GHz, attained by a DFB laser self-injection locking to a high-Q Si3N4 microresonator with ...

IEEE2021

Simulating Mold Risks under Future Climate Conditions

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

This research tests the potential susceptibility of a prevalent, residential, wall assembly to the risk of sustained mold-growth in predicted future climate conditions. Here, the authors demonstrate a methodology that combines hygrothermal and mold-growth ...

IEEE2021

Gain-switched semiconductor laser driven soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

Dissipative Kerr soliton generation using self-injection-locked III-V lasers has enabled fully integrated hybrid microcombs that operate in turnkey mode and can access microwave repetition rates. Yet, continuous-wave-driven soliton microcombs exhibit low e ...

Nature Research2021

Dynamics of soliton self-injection locking in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Andrey Voloshin

Soliton microcombs constitute chip-scale optical frequency combs, and have the potential to impact a myriad of applications from frequency synthesis and telecommunications to astronomy. The demonstration of soliton formation via self-injection locking of t ...

Nature Research2021

Gain-switched semiconductor laser driven soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

Using phase-engineered coherent laser pulses produced by gain-switched semiconductor lasers, we generate low-power-threshold soliton microcombs whose repetition frequencies are in the X-band and K-band microwave ranges. (c) 2021TheAuthor(s) ...

IEEE2021

Zero-dispersion solitons in microresonators with octave-spanning dispersive wave formation

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng

IEEE2021

Photonic chip-based resonant supercontinuum via pulse-driven Kerr microresonator solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng

Supercontinuum generation and soliton microcomb formation both represent key techniques for the formation of coherent, ultrabroad optical frequency combs, enabling the RF-to-optical link. Coherent supercontinuum generation typically relies on ultrashort pu ...

2021

Actuation bandwidth extension of an integrated piezo-optomechanical nanophotonic device

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anat Siddharth

We demonstrate a novel technique of contour-mode suppression of an integrated MEMS-photonic chip up to the first HBAR mode at 17 MHz. The flattened actuation response is critical to the development of compact LiDAR engine or low-noise frequency-agile laser ...

IEEE2021

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Chao Xiang, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Zeyu Zhang, Zeyu Zhang

Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser lines for terabit-per-second transceivers, parallel coherent light detection ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2021

Nanophotonic supercontinuum-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy

Luc Thévenaz, Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Wolfgang Hänsel, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng

High resolution and fast detection of molecular vibrational absorption is important for organic synthesis, pharmaceutical processes, and environmental monitoring, and is enabled by mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser frequency combs via dual-comb spectroscopy. Her ...

2020

Wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss silicon nitride nonlinear photonic circuits

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Nils Johan Engelsen, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk, Guanhao Huang, Jijun He, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Alexey Tikan

Recent advances in silicon nitride integrated photonics have achieved ultralow optical losses. Transferring this technology to standard commercial foundries, and merging it with silicon photonics via heterogeneous integration, will seed novel laser and qua ...

IEEE2020

Resonant Supercontinuum Generation in Normal and Anomalous Dispersion

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng

We demonstrate broadband resonant supercontinuum generation based on stable bright soliton formation in Si3N4 microresonators with either anomalous or normal dispersion. The frequency combs have an electronically detectable repetition rate of 28 GHz, and s ...

IEEE2020

Photonic chip-based resonant supercontinuum generation with intrinsic nonlinear filtering

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng

We demonstrate broadband soliton-based resonant supercontinuum generation in a chip-based microresonator. We show that the soliton possesses an intrinsic ability to filter RF noise transfer from the input pulses, which can be further improved with asynchro ...

IEEE2020