Publications de Anat Siddharth

Ultrafast Tunable Photonic Integrated Extended-DBR Pockels Laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Andrey Voloshin, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu

Hybrid photonic integrated lasers have revolutionized laser technology by combining the scalable manufacturing of simple laser diodes with high-performance features such as frequency stability, opticallinewidth, and tuning linearity [1], traditionally only ...

IEEE2025

Low-noise, frequency-agile photonic integrated lasers

Anat Siddharth

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have revolutionized optical communication and precision metrology by enabling compact, scalable, and high-performance optical systems. However, conventional integrated laser sources suffer from limitations such as poor c ...

EPFL2025

Ultrafast tunable photonic-integrated extended-DBR Pockels laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Andrey Voloshin, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu

Frequency-agile lasers that can simultaneously feature low noise characteristics and fast mode-hop-free frequency tuning are keystone components for applications ranging from LiDAR and distributed sensing to communication and quantum information processing ...

Nature Publishing Group2025

Piezo-Mems Tunable Ultra Low-Noise Laser

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Andrey Voloshin, Anat Siddharth, Andrea Bancora, Vladimir Shadymov

In this paper, we present the first ultra-low-noise, self-injection locked (SIL) laser with frequency agility based on the monolithic integration of a low-loss silicon nitride (Si3N4) photonic spiral cavity with an aluminum nitride (AlN) actuator. The self ...

IEEE2025

Tunable optical reflector chip for external cavity laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth

An optical reflector chip (10) comprising a waveguide arrangement (11) configured to guide optical radiation and a modulation device (3). The waveguide arrangement (11) comprises a Bragg grating section (111), the Bragg grating section (111) comprising a p ...

2024

Frequency-agile Hybrid Integrated Laser at Sub-micron Spectral Range for Coherent Sensing and Quantum Applications

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth

We demonstrate a hybrid integrated low-noise laser based on a 900 nm laser diode self-injection locked to a microresonator with MEMS actuators exhibiting a frequency actuation bandwidth >10 MHz and a tuning efficiency >30 MHz/V. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Piezoelectric actuation for integrated photonics

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Andrey Voloshin, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev, Andrea Bancora, Vladimir Shadymov

Recent decades have seen significant advancements in integrated photonics, driven by improvements in nanofabrication technology. This field has been developed from integrated semiconductor lasers and low-loss waveguides to optical modulators, enabling the ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Sub-MHz linewidth, FMCW photonic integrated blue laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Anat Siddharth

We demonstrate for the first time a frequency-modulated continuous wave photonic integrated blue laser with sub-MHz linewidth. The laser exhibits frequency excursion greater than 900 MHz at up to 1 MHz triangular chirp rate with a nonlinearity of less than ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Piezoelectrically tunable, narrow linewidth photonic integrated extended-DBR lasers

Tobias Kippenberg, Andrey Voloshin, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu, Andrea Bancora, Junyin Zhang

Recent advancements in ultra-low-loss silicon nitride (Si3N4)-based photonic integrated circuits have surpassed fiber lasers in coherence and frequency agility. However, high manufacturing costs of DFB and precise control requirements, as required for self ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Ultrafast Pockels-tunable hybrid integrated E-DBR laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu

We demonstrate a hybrid integrated frequency-agile laser based on an InP gain chip and an extended electro-optic Bragg waveguide reflector manufactured with a wafer-scale lithium niobate-on-insulator process featuring 10 GHz tuning range with high optical ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Low-temperature and hydrogen-free silicon dioxide cladding for next-generation integrated photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu, Zihan Li

We demonstrate a process for hydrogen-free low-loss silicon oxide (SiO2) films deposited using S iCl4 and O 2 as precursors. A wide low-loss window from 1260 nm to 1625 nm is achieved at a deposition temperature of 300 ◦C, essential for next generation pho ...

Optical Society of America2024

Microwave-Optical Transduction Using High-Overtone Bulk Acoustic Resonators on Silicon Nitride Photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth

We present compact microwave-optical transducers between the microwave S-band and optical C-band based on monolithic integration of piezoelectric actuators atop silicon nitride photonic circuits. The silica cladding of the optical waveguide core is suspend ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Full C-band tunable integrated Erbium lasers via wafer-scale fabrication

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu

We demonstrate an integrated Erbium-based tunable laser using wafer-scale fabrication and ion implantation of silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits, and achieve single-frequency lasing tunable from 1530 nm to 1575 nm covering the entire optical C-ba ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Hertz-linewidth, high-power, frequency-agile photonic integrated E-DBR laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu

We demonstrate hybrid integration of an RSOA with an extended-distributed Bragg reflector (E-DBR) laser cavity implemented on a Si3N4 chip with monolithically integrated piezoactuators. The laser exhibits intrinsic linewidth of 4 Hz with laser frequency tu ...

Optical Society of America2024

Bidirectional microwave-optical transduction based on integration of high-overtone bulk acoustic resonators and photonic circuits

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth

Coherent interconversion between microwave and optical frequencies can serve as both classical and quantum interfaces for computing, communication, and sensing. Here, we present a compact microwave-optical transducer based on monolithic integration of piez ...

Nature Research2024

Ultrafast Tunable Photonic Integrated E-DBR Pockels Laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu

The hybrid integration of III-V gain media with low-loss photonic integrated circuits has advanced the performance of laser systems in terms of laser stability and coherence. The advent of lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) photonics for self-injection lo ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Integrated photon-pair source with monolithic piezoelectric frequency tunability

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anat Siddharth

This work demonstrates the capabilities of an entangled photon-pair source at telecom wavelengths, based on a photonic integrated Si3N4 microresonator with monolithically integrated piezoelectric frequency tuning. Previously, frequency tuning of photon pai ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Lithium-niobate-based narrow-linewidth frequency agile integrated lasers with petahertz frequency tuning rate

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Guanhao Huang, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev

We demonstrate an electro-optically tunable hybrid integrated laser self-injection locked to a mode of a heterogeneously integrated lithium-niobate-on-Damascene-silicon-nitride microresonator. An intrinsic linewidth of 3 kHz and a frequency tuning rate of ...

IEEE2023

Frequency agile photonic integrated external cavity laser

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Andrey Voloshin, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev, Andrea Bancora, Vladimir Shadymov

We demonstrate a Vernier ring laser with linear frequency tuning of 1.5 GHz at 100 kHz chirp rate and wavelength switching with 7 ns rise time and 75 nW power consumption using Si3N4 photonic chip with integrated PZT actuators. ...

Optical Society of America2023

High-density lithium niobate integrated photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Zihan Li

We demonstrate a strip waveguide-based LiNbO3 photonic integrated circuit fabricated with a novel hard mask, diamond-like-carbon (DLC). The steep sidewall configuration exhibits tight optical confinement and dispersion control while preserving ultra-low lo ...

Optical Society of America2023