Publications associées à The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline: Athos

Investigating Non-equilibrium Physics in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors and Quantum Materials via Ultrafast Spectroscopy

This thesis uses femtosecond laser spectroscopy in studying strong correlation in condensed matters that are pertinent to future technology: a wide bandgap perovskite and a quantum material, with the employment of ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy in th ...

EPFL2024

Mott physics in the multiflavored age

Frédéric Mila

The multiflavor Mott insulators, whose local Hilbert space consists of multiple degrees of freedom, occur widely in both quantum materials and ultracold atom systems. This Comment recommends the review article by Chen and Wu that is, to the author's knowle ...

Nature Portfolio2024

III-N blue-emitting epi-structures with high densities of dislocations: Fundamental mechanisms for efficiency improvement and applications

Pierre Christophe Lottigier

Since the dawn of humanity, human beings seeked to light their surroundings for their well-being, security and development. The efficiency of ancient lighting devices, e.g. oil lamps or candles, was in the order of 0.03-0.04% and jumped to 0.4-0.6% with th ...

EPFL2024

Exciton migration in two-dimensional materials

Excitons play an essential role in the optical response of two-dimensional materials. These are bound states showing up in the band gaps of many-body systems and are conceived as quasiparticles formed by an electron and a hole. By performing real-time simu ...

Nature Portfolio2024

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

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

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

On the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with layered dielectric materials

Ruben Ricca

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

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

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

Generation and control of localized terahertz fields in photoemitted electron plasmas

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Francesco Barantani, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo

Dense micron-sized electron plasmas, such as those generated upon irradiation of nanostructured metallic surfaces by intense femtosecond laser pulses, constitute a rich playground to study light-matter interactions, many-body phenomena, and out-of-equilibr ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Semiconductor-based device architectures in multimaterial fibers

William Nicolas Duncan Esposito

Semiconductor materials have given rise to today's digital technology and consumer electronics. Widespread adoption is closely linked to the ability to process and integrate them in devices at scale. Where flexibility and large surfaces are required, such ...

EPFL2023

The 2022 applied physics by pioneering women: a roadmap

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Hyunjung Kim, Hui Dong

Women have made significant contributions to applied physics research and development, and their participation is vital to continued progress. Recognizing these contributions is important for encouraging increased involvement and creating an equitable envi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Towards semiconducting nano-engineered photocathodes for electron microscopy applications

Nicolas Tappy

The growing field of pulsed electron microscopy (PEM) currently suffers from technical challenges, many of which are related to the inefficiency of present pulsed emitters. In this research, we explore semiconductor photoemitters as a replacement of conven ...

EPFL2023

Time-Resolved Hanbury Brown-Twiss Interferometry of On-Chip Biphoton Frequency Combs Using Vernier Phase Modulation

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu

Biphoton frequency combs (BFCs) are promising quantum sources for large-scale and high-dimensional quantum information and networking systems. In this context, the spectral purity of individual frequency bins will be critical for realizing quantum networki ...

American Physical Society (APS)2023

Charge Dynamics Electron Microscopy Nanoscale Imaging of Femtosecond Plasma Dynamics

Thomas La Grange, Fabrizio Carbone, Luca Piazza, Ivan Madan, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Francesco Barantani, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo

Understanding and actively controlling the spatiotemporal dynamics of nonequilibrium electron clouds is fundamental for the design of light and electron sources, high power electronic devices, and plasma-based applications. However, electron clouds evolve ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

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

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Majed Chergui

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense, coherent and tunable. They are enabling a broad range of nonlinear optical and s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

A squeezed mechanical oscillator with millisecond quantum decoherence

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Shingo Kono

An enduring challenge in constructing mechanical-oscillator-based hybrid quantum systems is to ensure engineered coupling to an auxiliary degree of freedom and maintain good mechanical isolation from the environment, that is, low quantum decoherence, consi ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Nikolai Kuznetsov

The ability to amplify optical signals is of pivotal importance across science and technology typically using rare-earth-doped fibres or gain media based on III-V semiconductors. A different physical process to amplify optical signals is to use the Kerr no ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022