Publications de Anton Lukashchuk

Photonic-electronic integrated circuit-based coherent LiDAR engine

Edoardo Charbon, Tobias Kippenberg, Grigorii Likhachev, Andrey Voloshin, Anton Lukashchuk, Halil Kerim Yildirim, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Andrea Bancora

Chip-scale integration is a key enabler for the deployment of photonic technologies. Coherent laser ranging or FMCW LiDAR, a perception technology that benefits from instantaneous velocity and distance detection, eye-safe operation, long-range, and immunit ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Nonlinear Integrated Photonics for Ranging Applications

Anton Lukashchuk

This thesis explores the application of recent advances in integrated photonics to the field of light detection and ranging (LiDAR). The progress in photonic integration allows for unprecedented levels of light manipulation on micrometer scales through the ...

EPFL2023

Method and setup for light detection and ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Lukashchuk

A method and a setup for light detection and ranging are disclosed. The setup is configured to carry out the following method: generating signal radiation (S) at multiple signal frequencies (fs) with an optical signal source (1), wherein the signal radiati ...

2023

Chaotic microcomb-based parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk, Aleksandr Tusnin

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

Chaotic microcomb inertia-free parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Stroganov, Anton Lukashchuk

Ever growing pixel acquisition rates in the fields of augmented reality, autonomous driving and robotics have increased interest in solid state beam scanning without moving parts. Modern photonic integrated laser ranging advances towards passive beam steer ...

AIP Publishing2023

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 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

320 GHz Analog-to-Digital Converter Exploiting Kerr Soliton Combs and Photonic-Electronic Spectral Stitching

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Grigorii Likhachev, Anton Lukashchuk, Viacheslav Snigirev

We demonstrate a photonic-electronic analog-to-digital converter (ADC) offering a record-high acquisition bandwidth of 320 GHz. The system combines a high-speed electro-optic modulator with a Kerr comb for spectrally sliced coherent detection and is used f ...

IEEE2021

Ultrafast optical circuit switching for data centers using integrated soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anton Lukashchuk

Optical technologies could enable fast and power-efficient networks for data centers. Here, the authors report Si3N4 microcomb based ultrafast photonic switching to provide enhanced performance for data center applications. ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anton Lukashchuk

With the proliferation of ultrahigh-speed mobile networks and internet-connected devices, along with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI)(1), the world is generating exponentially increasing amounts of data that need to be processed in a fast and effic ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Single-pixel massively parallel coherent LiDAR using on dual soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

IEEE2021

Optical frequency comb based parallel fm lidar

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Lukashchuk

In a LIDAR device (100) a laser light source (110) generates first laser light having a first laser frequency which is frequency modulated with a first frequency modulation. A non-linear optical element (120) receives the first laser light and generates th ...

2021

A cryogenic electro-optic interconnect for superconducting devices

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni, Amir Youssefi, Anton Lukashchuk

A major challenge to the scalability of cryogenic computing platforms is the heat load associated with the growing number of electrical cable connections between the superconducting circuitry and the room-temperature environment. Compared with electrical c ...

2021

Megapixel per second hardware efficient LiDAR based on microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

We show a novel architecture for massively parallel FMCW LiDAR based on multiheterodyne mixing of two triangular chirped soliton microcombs generated in integrated Si3N4 microresonators using a single laser source and a single coherent receiver. We demonst ...

IEEE2021

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

Sub-nanosecond Optical Switching Using Chip-Based Soliton Microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Kun Shi, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate sub-nanosecond wavelength switching, using a chip-based soliton microcomb and a semiconductor optical amplifier-based wavelength selector. 50-Gbps PAM4 transmission is achieved with discrete components and 25-Gbps NRZ with a photonic integra ...

IEEE2020

Massively parallel coherent LiDAR using dissipative Kerr solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate an architecture for massively parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR) by transferring linear chirps of a single narrow linewidth laser onto all soliton comb teeth though generation of a dissipative Kerr soli ...

IEEE2020

Reconfigurable radiofrequency filters based on versatile soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Jianqi Hu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anton Lukashchuk, Jijun He

The rapidly maturing integrated Kerr microcombs show significant potential for microwave photonics. Yet, state-of-the-art microcomb-based radiofrequency filters have required programmable pulse shapers, which inevitably increase the system cost, footprint, ...

Nature Research2020

Spectral multiplexing of dissipative Kerr solitons in a single optical microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

We experimentally demonstrate that dissipative Kerr solitons generated in different spectral regions can stably coexist in a single optical microresonator enabling spectral multiplexing of soliton microcombs. (C) 2020 The Author(s) ...

IEEE2020

Microresonator soliton based massively parallel coherent LiDAR

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate an architecture for massively parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR) by transferring linear chirps of a single narrow linewidth laser onto all soliton comb teeth though generation of a dissipative Kerr soli ...

IEEE2020