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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

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Natural foundations defining the manner in which a solid material interacts with optical radiation are primarily encoded in the material's momentum-dependent band structure and the microscopic details of the electron-lattice interactions. An access to this ...

EPFL2021

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Hazardous chemicals excruciatingly contaminated water, air, and soil for the past few decades. Eco-friendly techniques to clean and or destroy these harmful chemicals is an urgent requirement at this moment. In this direction, a large number of methodologi ...

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Freestanding Silicon Photonic Ring and Disk Resonators

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EPFL2018

Site-controlled quantum dots integrated with photonic crystal waveguides and cavities

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Conductive-probe atomic force microscopy as a characterization tool for nanowire-based solar cells

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Elsevier Science Bv2017

Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) devices and their use in comb-based communication systems

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Ieee2016

Ultrafast imaging of plasmons in a transmission electron microscope

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Miniaturized plasmonic and photonic integrated circuits are generally considered as the core of future generations of optoelectronic devices, due to their potential to bridge the size-compatibility gap between photonics and electronics. However, as the nan ...

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Large-scale broadband digital silicon photonic switches with vertical adiabatic couplers

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Large-scale photonic switches are essential devices for energy-and cost-efficient optical communication networks in cloud and data-intensive computing. Silicon photonics is an attractive platform for high-density photonic integrated circuits with low manuf ...

Optical Soc Amer2016

Terabit/s communications using chip-scale frequency comb sources

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High-speed optical interconnects rely on advanced wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) schemes. However, while photonic-electronic interfaces can be efficiently realized on silicon-on-insulator chips, dense integration of the necessary light sources stil ...

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