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First Demonstration of Erbium -Doped Waveguide Amplifier Enabled Multi-Tb/s (16x1.6T) Coherent Transmission

Tobias Kippenberg, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Xi Chen

We demonstrate the first EDWA-enabled Terabit-class coherent optical communication with 1.6-Tb/s net bit rate per channel and 16 -channel WDM transmission over 81 -km fiber, proving the potential of such on-chip amplification for future coherent applicatio ...

IEEE2023

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Programmable frequency-bin quantum states in a nano-engineered silicon device

Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi

Frequency-bin qubits get the best of time-bin and dual-rail encodings, but require external modulators and pulse shapers to build arbitrary states. Here, instead, the authors work directly on-chip by controlling the interference of biphoton amplitudes gene ...

Nature Portfolio2023

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

Chaotic microcomb-based parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anton Lukashchuk, Aleksandr Tusnin

The intrinsic random amplitude and phase modulation of 40 distinct lines of a microresonator frequency comb operated in the modulation instability regime are used to realize massively parallel random-modulation continuous-wave light detection and ranging, ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

Domain Imaging and Switching Dynamics in BaTiO3-Based Photonic Integrated Devices

Jacqueline Geler Kremer

Keeping up with our constantly connected lifestyle of instant messages and video streaming has its repercussions. Data centers have been gobbling up resources becoming a significant share of the energy used worldwide. To keep up with demand and curb the en ...

EPFL2023

Dual chirped microcomb based parallel ranging at megapixel-line rates

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anton Lukashchuk

Photonic integrated systems can be harnessed for fast and efficient optical telecommunication and metrology technologies. Here the authors develop a dual-soliton microcomb technique for massively parallel coherent laser ranging that requires only a single ...

Nature Portfolio2022

All-optical switching in epsilon-near-zero asymmetric directional coupler

Jiaye Wu

We propose an all-optical switch based on an asymmetric directional coupler structure with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) layer. The nonlinear optical properties the of ENZ layer are analyzed by hot-electron dynamics process, and the all-optical operating perform ...

Nature Portfolio2022

A Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based Erbium-doped Waveguide Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Jijun He, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji

We demonstrate an erbium-doped waveguide amplifier by erbium ion implantation in Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits, achieving 145 mW on-chip output power and more than 30 dB small-signal gain, which is on par with commercial fiber amplifiers and beyond st ...

IEEE2022

A photonic integrated circuit-based erbium-doped amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Jijun He, Anton Lukashchuk, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic integrated circuits but their use remains impractical as a result of insuf ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Reduced material loss in thin-film lithium niobate waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Guanhao Huang, Mikhail Churaev, Zihan Li

Thin-film lithium niobate has shown promise for scalable applications ranging from single-photon sources to high-bandwidth data communication systems. Realization of the next generation high-performance classical and quantum devices, however, requires much ...

AIP Publishing2022

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, 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

Giant Brillouin Amplification in Gas Using Hollow-core Fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger, Fan Yang

Optical amplification in hollow core fibers has been achieved using stimulated Brillouin scattering directly in the gaseous medium. More than 50 dB optical gain is observed over 50 m of fiber using 200 mW of pump power. ...

Optical Society of America2021

A hybrid erbium(III)-bacteriochlorin near-infrared probe for multiplexed biomedical imaging

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Fan Zhang

Spectrally distinct fluorophores are desired for multiplexed bioimaging. In particular, monitoring biological processes in living mammals needs fluorophores that operate in the 'tissue-transparent' near-infrared (NIR) window, that is, between 700 and 1,700 ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Design and Fabrication of Stretchable Photonic Fibers

Nicola Bartolomei

Optical fibers have reshaped the technological landscape, from optical networks and high-speed data communication to in situ imaging and non-invasive surgery methods. The revolution allowed by these fibers has been made possible by its fabrication method, ...

EPFL2021

High-yield, wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss, dispersion-engineered silicon nitride photonic circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Nils Johan Engelsen, Tianyi Liu

Low-loss photonic integrated circuits and microresonators have enabled a wide range of applications, such as narrow-linewidth lasers and chip-scale frequency combs. To translate these into a widespread technology, attaining ultralow optical losses with est ...

Nature Research2021

Giant Brillouin Amplification in Gases

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger, Fan Yang

In our work, we used stimulated Brillouin scattering directly in the gas medium (such as air) filling a hollow-core fiber to realize a massive optical amplification, by a factor of 200,000. ...

2020

Electrically driven source of time-energy entangled photons based on a self-pumped silicon microring resonator

Matteo Galli, Micol Previde Massara

Time-energy entangled photon pairs are fundamental resources for quantum communication protocols since they are robust against environmental fluctuations in optical fiber networks. Pair sources based on spontaneous four-wave mixing in silicon microring res ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

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, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

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