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Self-organized spatiotemporal quasi-phase-matching in microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Marco Clementi, Ji Zhou

Quasi-phase-matching (QPM) is a widely adopted technique for mitigating stringent momentum conservation in nonlinear optical processes such as second-harmonic generation (SHG). It effectively compensates for the phase velocity mismatch between optical harm ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Electric-field poling of a silicon nitride microring resonator for linear electro-optic modulation

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

The centrosymmetric structure of stoichiometric silicon nitride inhibits the realization of second-order nonlinear processes in this low-loss, complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor fabrication-compatible platform. Nevertheless, linear electro-optic modul ...

SPIE2024

Spatiotemporal Quasi-Phase-Matching in Microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Marco Clementi, Ji Zhou

We show how spatiotemporal quasi-phase-matching emerges from all-optical poling of silicon nitride microresonators. Enabled by the coherent photogalvanic effect, the photoinduced χ(2) grating oscillates in space and time, yielding quasi-phase-matched and D ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Silicon nitride electric-field poled microresonator modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

Stoichiometric silicon nitride is a highly regarded platform for its favorable attributes, such as low propagation loss and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, making it a prominent choice for various linear and nonlinear ...

2024

Integrated Backward Second-Harmonic Generation through Optically Induced Quasi-Phase-Matching

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar

Quasi-phase-matching for efficient backward second-harmonic generation requires sub-μm poling periods, a nontrivial fabrication feat. For the first time, we report integrated first-order quasiphase-matched backward second-harmonic generation enabled by see ...

2023

A chip-scale second-harmonic source via self-injection-locked all-optical poling

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

Second-harmonic generation allows for coherently bridging distant regions of the optical spectrum, with applications ranging from laser technology to self-referencing of frequency combs. However, accessing the nonlinear response of a medium typically requi ...

2023

Bright and dark Talbot pulse trains on a chip

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Edgars Nitiss, Jiaye Wu, Marco Clementi, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

Temporal Talbot effect, the intriguing phenomenon of the self-imaging of optical pulse trains, is extensively investigated using macroscopic components. However, the ability to manipulate pulse trains, either bright or dark, through the Talbot effect on in ...

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

Tunable photo-induced second-harmonic generation in a mode-engineered silicon nitride microresonator

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich

All-optical poling enables reconfigurable and efficient quasi-phase-matching for second-order parametric frequency conversion in silicon nitride integrated photonics. Here, we report broadly tunable milliwatt-level second-harmonic generation in a small fre ...

2023

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

Electric-field poling of silicon nitride waveguides for the linear phase modulation

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich

Stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4) constitutes a mature platform for integrated photonics. Its pertinent properties, including wide transparency window from the visible to the mid-IR, low propagation loss, and high third-order nonlinearity, are exploit ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

Generalized Coherent Photogalvanic Effect in Coherently Seeded Waveguides

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar

The coherent photogalvanic effect leads to the generation of a current under the absorption interference of coherent beams and allows for the inscription of space-charge gratings leading to a second-order susceptibility (chi((2))). The inscribed grating au ...

2022

Optically reconfigurable quasi-phase-matching in silicon nitride microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss

Quasi-phase-matching has long been a widely used approach in nonlinear photonics, enabling efficient parametric frequency conversions such as second-harmonic generation. However, in silicon photonics the task remains challenging, as materials best suited f ...

Nature Publishing Group2022

Linear Electro-optic Effect in Silicon Nitride Waveguides Enabled by Electric-Field Poling

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich

Stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4) is one of the most mature integrated photonic platforms for linear and nonlinear optical applications on-chip. However, because it is a centrosymmetric material, second-order nonlinear processes are inherently not ava ...

2022

Backward Second-Harmonic Generation in Optically Poled Silicon Nitride Waveguides

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar

We report the inscription of quasi-phase-matching gratings in silicon nitride waveguides for backward second-harmonic-generation enabled by all-optical poling, therefore, circumventing the difficulties in inscribing poled domains with ultra-short periods. ...

2022

Difference-frequency generation in optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich, Ezgi Sahin

Difference-frequency generation (DFG) is elemental for nonlinear parametric processes such as optical parametric oscillation and is instrumental for generating coherent light at long wavelengths, especially in the middle infrared. Second-order nonlinear fr ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

Difference-frequency generation in silicon nitride waveguides based on all-optical poling

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich, Ezgi Sahin

IEEE2021

Seeded Multimode Quasi-Phase-Matching in All-Optically Poled Silicon Nitride Waveguides

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar

We demonstrate seeding-enabled all-optical poling of silicon nitride waveguides as short as 5 mm, and account for quasi-phase-matching (QPM) inside the waveguide between the fundamental mode of pump and higher order second-harmonic modes. ...

OSA2021

Difference frequency generation in optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich, Ezgi Sahin

All-optical poling leads to an effective second-order nonlinearity (chi((2))) in centrosymmetric materials without the need for sophisticated fabrication techniques or material processing, through the periodic self-organization of the charges. The absence ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Second order nonlinearity in Silicon Nitride waveguides via photo-induced self-organized gratings

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss

IEEE2021