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Electric-field-induced second-order nonlinear processes in stoichiometric silicon nitride

Nonlinear optical frequency conversion is one of the driving research areas in photonics. Its quasi instantaneous response and the promise of low power consumption in integrated structures could cover the demand for fast signal processing with minimal ener ...

EPFL2024

Emergent nonlinear dynamics in photonic lattices

Aleksandr Tusnin

Since the discovery of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators, significant progress has been made in the understanding of the underlying physical principles from the fundamental side and generation of broadband coherent optical Kerr frequency ...

EPFL2024

Wavelength-stabilized figure-of-9 thulium-doped all-fiber laser emitting 560 fs pulses

Camille Sophie Brès, Moritz Bartnick, Gayathri Bharathan

We demonstrate a figure-of-9 all-fiber thulium-doped laser (TDFL) that generates 560 fs long pulses at 1948 nm wavelength. In order to achieve self-starting passive mode-locking, we utilize an in-fiber Faraday rotator to induce a nonreciprocal phase shift. ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

An Ultralow-Power Triaxial MEMS Accelerometer With High-Voltage Biasing and Electrostatic Mismatch Compensation

Yimai Peng, Li Xu, Kyojin Choo

This article presents a triaxial micro electromechani-cal system (MEMS) capacitive accelerometer using a high-voltage biasing technique to achieve high resolution with ultralow power. The accelerometer system generates a differential pair of high voltages ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization

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Photonics integrated circuits are a promising solution for the growing demands of data transmission and future system-on-chip technologies. Within this context, nonlinear optical interactions offer unique opportunities for all-optical processing, sampling, ...

EPFL2024

Live-cell imaging powered by computation

Suliana Manley, Florian Jug

The proliferation of microscopy methods for live-cell imaging offers many new possibilities for users but can also be challenging to navigate. The prevailing challenge in live-cell fluorescence microscopy is capturing intra-cellular dynamics while preservi ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Dissipative Kerr soliton generation at 2μm in a silicon nitride microresonator

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Ozan Yakar, Marco Clementi, Christian André Clément Lafforgue, Anamika Nair Karunakaran

Chip -scale optical frequency combs enable the generation of highly -coherent pulsed light at gigahertz-level repetition rates, with potential technological impact ranging from telecommunications to sensing and spectroscopy. In combination with techniques ...

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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

Optimizing Data Processing for Nanodiamond Based Relaxometry

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The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a powerful and versatile quantum sensor for diverse quantities. In particular, relaxometry (or T1), can be used to detect magnetic noise at the nanoscale. For experiments with single NV centers the analysis of ...

WILEY2023

Hybrid lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride platform for mid-IR supercontinuum generation

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Integrated optics has shown itself very convenient for exploiting nonlinear processes as it results in high confinement factor, freedom of dispersion engineering and compactness. However, the choice of materials is crucial for the development of nonlinear ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2023

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 ...

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Linear and nonlinear applications of miniaturized silicon nitride microresonators

Arslan Sajid Raja

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are the subject of massive interest due to the range of applications they can provide at a huge scale while building on well-established CMOS technologies. One of the critical parameters defining a technology's maturity ...

EPFL2023

Optimal digital filter selection for remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signal conditioning

Ata Jedari Golparvar

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) using camera-based imaging has shown excellent potential recently in vital signs monitoring due to its contactless nature. However, the optimum filter selection for pre-processing rPPG data in signal conditioning is still ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-poor Star Candidates from DESI

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The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of similar to 10, improving the sample statistics to study the early chemical evolution of the Mil ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

Nonlinear dynamics and Kerr frequency comb formation in lattices of coupled microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Kenichi Komagata, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

Recently, substantial progress has been made in the understanding of microresonators frequency combs based on dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs). However, most of the studies have focused on the single-resonator level. Coupled resonator systems can open new ...

Nature Portfolio2023

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

Euclid preparation XXVI. The Euclid Morphology Challenge: Towards structural parameters for billions of galaxies

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The various Euclid imaging surveys will become a reference for studies of galaxy morphology by delivering imaging over an unprecedented area of 15000 square degrees with high spatial resolution. In order to understand the capabilities of measuring morpholo ...

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Dissipative Solitons and Switching Waves in Dispersion-Modulated Kerr Cavities

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alisa Davydova

We theoretically and experimentally investigate the formation of dissipative coherent structures in Kerr nonlinear optical microresonators, whose spectrum encompasses an integrated dispersion that exceeds the cavity free-spectral range. We are able to acce ...

American Physical Society2023

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

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

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

Early works(1) and recent advances in thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator have enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits(2,3), modulators with improved half-wave voltage(4,5), electro-optic frequency combs(6) and on-chip electro-optic devic ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023