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Generation of an optical frequency comb in the green with silicon nitride microresonators

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Linear and nonlinear applications of miniaturized silicon nitride microresonators

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

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

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev

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 ...

2023

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

Tunable acousto-optic optical frequency combs

Andrey Voloshin

Examination of various issues related to the generation and application of optical frequency combs (OFCs) is an important branch of modern optoelectronics. Some of the proposed OFC generation methods apply acousto-optic (AO) devices. The AO devices are use ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in the Hybrid Si3N4 - LiNbO3 Integrated Platform

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Mikhail Churaev, Viacheslav Snigirev

We demonstrate optical frequency comb generation in hybrid high-Q optical microresonators fabricated using direct wafer bonding of photonic Damascene silicon nitride wafer with thin-film lithium niobate-on-insulator (LNOI). The devices enable direct phase ...

IEEE2021

Versatile shaping of optical frequency combs and applications

Jianqi Hu

Optical frequency combs are a series of phase-locked and equidistant laser lines in the spectral domain. In the time domain, they correspond to periodic pulse trains by the Fourier relation. The ability to shape optical combs and pulse trains is pivotal to ...

EPFL2021

Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in the Hybrid Silicon Nitride - Lithium Niobate Integrated Platform

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Mikhail Churaev, Viacheslav Snigirev

IEEE2021

Coherent terahertz-to-microwave link using electro-optic-modulated Turing rolls

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth

Arising from modulation instability, Turing rolls in optical Kerr microresonators have been used in the generation of optical frequency combs and the synthesis of microwave and terahertz frequencies. In this work, by applying electro-optic modulation on te ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Dissipative Kerr solitons in a photonic dimer on both sides of exceptional point

Tobias Kippenberg, Kenichi Komagata, Hairun Guo, Mikhail Churaev, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

Exceptional points are a ubiquitous concept widely present in driven-dissipative coupled systems described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. To date, exceptional points have been extensively examined in the systems supporting only a few optical modes, thereb ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Dynamics and Applications of Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Maxim Karpov

Optical frequency combs are optical sources, which spectrum consists of a series of equally spaced narrowband frequencies. They made an outstanding leap forward in the accuracy of optical frequency metrology and became an attractive tool for numerous appli ...

EPFL2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Tianyi Liu

High-speed actuation of laser frequency(1)is critical in applications using lasers and frequency combs(2,3), and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer among optical carriers. For example, high-bandwidth feedbac ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Broadband quasi-phase-matching in dispersion-engineered all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich

Quasi-phase-matching (QPM) has become one of the most common approaches for increasing the efficiency of nonlinear three-wave mixing processes in integrated photonic circuits. Here, we provide a study of dispersion engineering of QPM second-harmonic (SH) g ...

2020

Heteronuclear soliton molecules in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng

Optical soliton molecules are bound states of solitons that arise from the balance between attractive and repulsive effects. Having been observed in systems ranging from optical fibres to mode-locked lasers, they provide insights into the fundamental inter ...

Nature Research2020

Frequency division using a soliton-injected semiconductor gain-switched frequency comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng

With optical spectral marks equally spaced by a frequency in the microwave or the radio frequency domain, optical frequency combs have been used not only to synthesize optical frequencies from microwave references but also to generate ultralow-noise microw ...

2020

Ultralow-noise photonic microwave synthesis using a soliton microcomb-based transfer oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

The synthesis of ultralow-noise microwaves is of both scientific and technological relevance for timing, metrology, communications and radio-astronomy. Today, the lowest reported phase noise signals are obtained via optical frequency-division using mode-lo ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Ultra-high-resolution software-defined photonic terahertz spectroscopy

Gabriel Aeppli

A novel technique for high-resolution 1.5 mu m photonics-enabled terahertz (THz) spectroscopy using software control of the illumination spectral line shape (SLS) is presented. The technique enhances the performance of a continuous-wave THz spectrometer to ...

2020

Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Chao Xiang, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Tianyi Liu

Optical frequency combs have a wide range of applications in science and technology(1). An important development for miniature and integrated comb systems is the formation of dissipative Kerr solitons in coherently pumped high-quality-factor optical micror ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Demonstration of Kramers-Kronig Detection of Four 20-Gbaud 16-QAM Channels after 50-km Transmission Using Kerr Combs to Perform Shared Phase Estimation

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate KK detection of four 20-Gbaud 16-QAM channels after 50-km transmission using two soliton Kerr combs at transmitter and receiver. The frequency comb coherence enables a shared phase noise estimation among multiple channels. (C) ...

IEEE2019

Physics of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators and Application to Frequency Synthesis

Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

Optical-frequency combs, that is spectra of equidistant coherent optical lines, have revolutionized the precision measurements of time and frequency. In 2007 a new method to generate optical frequency combs was discovered. In contrast to conventional gener ...

EPFL2019