Publications associées à Universal Dynamics of Kerr-Frequency Comb Formation in Microresonators

A Cryo-CMOS Wideband Quadrature Receiver With Frequency Synthesizer for Scalable Multiplexed Readout of Silicon Spin Qubits

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

In this article, a cryo-CMOS receiver integrated with a frequency synthesizer for scalable multiplexed readout of qubits is presented, focusing on radio frequency (RF) reflectometry readout of silicon-based semiconductor spin qubits/quantum dots. The propo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Low-Power and Wide-Tuning Range Frequency Generation for FMCW Radars in Advanced CMOS Technologies

Francesco Chicco

Nowadays, the internet of things (IoT) nodes have started to spread in various domains of our society, from the industrial to the domestic environment. The remote sensing is one among their fundamental functions. The implementation of a radio detection and ...

EPFL2021

Development of Lamb wave resonators in thin film X-cut lithium niobate

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Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is among the most revolutionary technologies of 21st century, with the applications ranging from industrial systems to consumer electronics. Using MEMS in battery-powered wireless devices has long been seen as the evol ...

EPFL2021

Spectral Purification of Microwave Signals with Disciplined Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng

Continuous-wave-driven Kerr nonlinear microresonators give rise to self-organization in terms of dissipative Kerr solitons, which constitute optical frequency combs that can be used to generate low-noise microwave signals. Here, by applying either amplitud ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Photonic Integrated K-Band Microwave Oscillator Based on Silicon Nitride Soliton Microcomb

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Nils Johan Engelsen, Guanhao Huang, Jijun He

Using photonic integrated silicon nitride microresonators of quality factor exceeding 15 million, we demonstrate 19-GHz-repetition-rate single soliton with 35 mW optical power, and characterize the phase noise of the repetition rate in the K-band microwave ...

IEEE2019

Phase Noise Measurements Of Aluminum Scandium Nitride Oscillators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Andrea Lozzi, Marco Liffredo

This paper presents the first phase noise (PN) measurements of oscillators based on aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN) resonators. 2-port AlScN contour mode resonators (CMR) operating at 195 MHz arc fabricated. A large pool of Q values (ranging from 150 to ...

IEEE2019

Ultra Low Power FM-UWB Transceiver for High-Density Wireless Sensor Networks

Vladimir Kopta

The WiseSkin project aims to provide a non-invasive solution for restoration of a natural sense of touch to persons using prosthetic limbs. By embedding sensor nodes into the silicone coating of the prosthesis, which acts as a sensory skin, WiseSkin target ...

EPFL2018

Design Techniques for Ultra High Frequency Clock Generation in 28 nm FDSOI Technology

Hasene Gülperi Özsema

Twentieth century has been the golden age of semiconductor industry by achieving a high level of growth as a courtesy of developments in fabrication techniques and downscaling of the technology. Since the downscaling in current lithography technology is re ...

EPFL2017

Evaluation of the accuracy of BOTDA systems based on the phase spectral response

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

We evaluate the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) determination error when utilizing the Brillouin phase spectrum (BPS) instead of the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) in BOTDA systems. Systems based on the BPS perform the determination of the BFS through a lin ...

Optical Society of America2016

Simultaneous and interleaved acquisition of NMR signals from different nuclei with a clinical MRI scanner

Rolf Gruetter

PURPOSE: Modification of a clinical MRI scanner to enable simultaneous or rapid interleaved acquisition of signals from two different nuclei. METHODS: A device was developed to modify the local oscillator signal fed to the receive channel(s) of an MRI cons ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

A low-voltage CMOS-compatible time-domain photodetector, device & front end electronics

Denis Sallin

During the last decades, the usage of silicon photodetectors, both as stand-alone sensor or integrated in arrays, grew tremendously. They are now found in almost any application and any market range, from leisure products to high-end scientific apparatuses ...

EPFL2016

Driven dual phase lock loop

Steve Tanner, Pierre-André Farine, Yazhou Zhao

The invention relates to a phase lock loop (100) comprising: - a loop filter (140), - a voltage controlled oscillator (150), - a frequency divider (160), - a frequency lock detector (113), able to emit a frequency lock indication signal (LOCK), - a digital ...

2016

A 51.4 Mb/s FSK Transmitter Employing a Phase Domain Digital Synthesizer with 1.5 mu s Start-up for Energy Efficient Duty Cycling

Christian Enz, Nicola Scolari, David Ruffieux, Raghavasimhan Thirunarayanan

This paper presents a low start-up latency Transmitter (TX) that can achieve FSK data rates of upto 51.4 Mb/s for deployment in duty cycled microsensor nodes. Utilizing a Phase Domain Digital Synthesizer with an FBAR frequency reference, this TX has a star ...

Ieee2016

Design of ultra low-power RF oscillators based on the inversion coefficient methodology using BSIM6 model

Christian Enz, Anurag Mangla, Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki, Gabrielle Guitton

This paper presents a fast and accurate way to design and optimize LC oscillators using the inversion coefficient (IC). This methodology consists of four steps: linear analysis, nonlinear analysis, phase noise analysis, and optimization using a figure of m ...

2016

Jitter Analysis and Measurement in Subthreshold Source-Coupled Differential Ring Oscillators

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Mahsa Shoaran

The jitter and the phase noise of ring oscillators utilizing subthreshold source-coupled logic (STSCL) style are analyzed in this paper. Closed-form equations are derived to predict the jitter and phase noise caused by white and flicker noise. Measurement ...

2015

A double-quadrature radiofrequency coil design for proton-decoupled carbon-13 magnetic resonance spectroscopy in humans at 7T

Eulalia Serés Roig, Rolf Gruetter, Lijing Xin, Guillaume Donati, Özlem Ipek

Purpose Carbon-13 magnetic resonance spectroscopy (13C-MRS) is challenging because of the inherent low sensitivity of 13C detection and the need for radiofrequency transmission at the 1H frequency while receiving the 13C signal, the latter requiring electr ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Approximate Ergodic Capacity of a Class of Fading Two-User Two-Hop Networks

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Chien-Yi Wang

The fading AWGN two-user two-hop network is considered where the channel coefficients are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) according to a continuous distribution and vary over time. For a broad class of channel distributions, the ergodic su ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Three-dimensional measurements of non-diffusive fast ion transport in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

In the basic plasma physics device TORPEX, progress in the fundamental understanding of supra-thermal ion transport is achieved by extensive sets of three-dimensional (3D) data, together with numerical simulations of supra-thermal ion tracers in fluid turb ...

2013

Time gated phase-correlation distributed Brillouin fibre sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

A random access distributed Brillouin fibre sensor is presented, based on phase modulation using a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) together with time gating. The standard phase-correlation technique is known to show a noise level increasing linearly with ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Generation and application of dynamic gratings in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Since the invention of optical fiber cable data transmission using light has become ubiquitous in the past years. Nonlinear optical effects, which are hardly noticed in our daily life, have become crucial and highly influential for the design and performan ...

EPFL2013