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Influence of ionization and cumulative effects on laser-induced crystallization in multilayer dielectrics

Yves Bellouard, Ruben Ricca, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

Crystallization of amorphous layers has been demonstrated under various radically different laser-exposure conditions, including continuous wave (cw) and pulsed lasers. Here, we investigate the specific role of ionization in the crystallization of dielectr ...

2024

Laser-based manufacturing of freeform glass micro-optics through topological transformation

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Glass has been the material of choice for making optical elements, in large part due to its intrinsic properties: a temperature-dependent viscosity, which enables shaping the material into a broad variety of functional and artistic glassware. Silica glass ...

EPFL2024

Femtosecond-laser direct-write photoconductive patterns on tellurite glass

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We report the formation of arbitrary photoconductive patterns made of tellurium (Te) nanocrystals by exposing a tellurite (TeO2-based) glass to femtosecond laser pulses. During this process, Te/TeO2-glass nanocomposite interfaces with photoconductive prope ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

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

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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

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 ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Photothermal spectroscopy on-chip sensor for the measurement of a PMMA film using a silicon nitride micro-ring resonator and an external cavity quantum cascade laser

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Laser-based mid-infrared (mid-IR) photothermal spectroscopy (PTS) represents a selective, fast, and sensitive analytical technique. Recent developments in laser design permits the coverage of wider spectral regions in combination with higher power, enablin ...

Walter De Gruyter Gmbh2024

Persistent enhancement of exciton diffusivity in CsPbBr3 nanocrystal solids

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In semiconductors, exciton or charge carrier diffusivity is typically described as an inherent material property. Here, we show that the transport of excitons among CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) depends markedly on how recently those NCs were occup ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2024

On the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with layered dielectric materials

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Materials properties are strictly dependent on their microstructure. The internal symmetries and the disposition of the constituting atoms of a material, which depend on its crystallographic structure, greatly affect its response to mechanical, electromagn ...

EPFL2023

Cavitation induced by pulsed and continuous-wave fiber lasers in confinement

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Bubbles generated with lasers in liquids under confinement have been investigated for their potential use as the driving mechanism for liquid micro-jets in various microfluidic devices, such as needle-free jet injectors. Here, we report on the study of bub ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2023

Single-frequency violet and blue laser emission from AlGaInN photonic integrated circuit chips

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth

Chip-based, single-frequency and low phase-noise integrated photonic laser diodes emitting in the violet (412 nm) and blue (461 nm) regime are demonstrated. The GaN-based edge-emitting laser diodes were coupled to high-quality on-chip micro-resonators for ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

All-glass miniature GHz repetition rate femtosecond laser cavity

Yves Bellouard, Antoine Maxime Delgoffe, Sargis Hakobyan, Saood Ibni Nazir

Free-space optics allows for design freedom and control, but miniaturization and manufacturability are limited. Here, we present a method for manufacturing complex miniaturized free-space optical systems that combines contactless femtosecond laser-activate ...

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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

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

In situ monitoring of femtosecond laser-induced modifications in dielectrics

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Over the last decades, the progress made in the generation of laser pulses shorter than a picosecond (10^-12 s) has allowed us to reach extreme optical power intensities exceeding 10^15 W cm^-2. This tremendous power has triggered an abundance of original ...

EPFL2023

Linear and nonlinear applications of miniaturized silicon nitride microresonators

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EPFL2023

Spatiotemporal dissipative soliton resonances in multimode fiber lasers

Bo Fu, Haoye Qin, Xuchen Wang, Hao Ouyang, Gang Wang

Spatiotemporal mode-locking in multimode fiber lasers is intriguing for the complex nonlinear dynamics and the increase of theoretical energy limit. In this paper, we enrich spatiotemporal mode-locking with dissipative soliton resonances, a kind of soliton ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Formation Mechanism of Elemental Te Produced in Tellurite Glass Systems by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation

Yves Bellouard, Gözden Torun

The formation of elemental trigonal tellurium (t-Te) on tellurite glass surfaces exposed to femtosecond laser pulses is discussed. Specifically, the underlying elemental crystallization phenomenon is investigated by altering laser parameters in common tell ...

Wiley2023

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

Method for operating a frequency agile tunable self-injection locking laser system and self-injection locking laser system

Tobias Kippenberg, Grigorii Likhachev, Anat Siddharth

The invention relates to a Method for operating a frequency agile tunable self-injection locking laser system being formed by a laser device coupled to at least one optical resonator, wherein a diode current of a laser diode of the laser device is controll ...

2023

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