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Optical heterodyne detection

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Performance of chip-scale optical frequency comb generators in coherent WDM communications

Tobias Kippenberg

Optical frequency combs have the potential to become key building blocks of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) communication systems. The strictly equidistant narrow-band spectral lines of a frequency comb can serve either as carriers for parallel WDM ...

2020

With a fine-tooth comb

Camille Sophie Brès

The tool of choice to measure optical frequencies with extremely high precision is the optical frequency comb. Camille-Sophie Bres explains what makes this technique so powerful. ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

A 10-to-12 GHz 5mW Charge-Sampling PLL Achieving 50 fsec RMS Jitter,-258.9 dB FOM and-65 dBc Reference Spur

Edoardo Charbon

This paper presents a charge-sampling PLL (CSPLL), that demonstrates the best reported jitter-power FOM of -258.9 dB thanks to its high phase-detection gain and to the removal of the power-hungry buffer driving the phase detector. It also achieves -65 dBc ...

IEEE2020

Demonstration of Tunable Optical Aggregation of QPSK to 16-QAM Over Optically Generated Nyquist Pulse Trains Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb

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

A tunable and reconfigurable optical aggregation system is experimentally demonstrated. Optical Nyquist pulses are generated on multiple channels using a microresonator-based Kerr optical frequency comb and insertion of uniform lines by an intensity modula ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Light microscope with reconfigurable sensor array

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A light microscope comprises a light source (10) for illuminating a specimen (35), a sensor array (60) comprised of photon-counting detector elements (61, 62) for measuring detection light (15) coming from the specimen (35), and a control device (70) for c ...

2020

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

Wafer-level fabrication of individual solid-state nanopores for sensing single DNAs

Miao Zhang

For biomolecule sensing purposes a solid-state nanopore platform based on silicon has certain advantages as compared to nanopores on other substrates such as graphene, silicon nitride, silicon oxide etc Capitalizing on the developed CMOS technology, nanopo ...

2020

Physics of optically driven nanojunctions

Philippe Andreas Rölli

Recent years have seen spectacular developments in the domain of nano-optics. Alongside the well-known techniques of super-resolution microscopy progress in nanofabrication has enabled important improvements in the fields of optical imaging and spectros ...

EPFL2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

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

Tokamak plasma edge studies by microwave short-pulse reflectometry and backscattering

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Moving towards an increased understanding of the dynamic processes in the edge of tokamak plasmas requires continuous innovation in diagnostic capabilities, pushing the envelope in both spatial and temporal dimenstions. Plasma density and rotation, and the ...

EPFL2019

Kerr Comb-based Transfer Oscillator for Ultralow Noise Photonic Microwave Synthesis

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

We perform optical frequency division of an ultra-stable laser by using a crystalline-based Kerr frequency comb as a transfer oscillator. We demonstrate absolute phase noise levels of -110 dBc/Hz at 200-Hz offset from a 14 GHz carrier. (C) 2019 The Author( ...

IEEE2019

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, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Fatemeh Alishahi

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