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Parametric oscillator

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Experimental observation of topological transition in linear and nonlinear parametric oscillators

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Benjamin Apffel

Parametric oscillators are examples of externally driven systems that can exhibit two stable states with opposite phase depending on the initial conditions. In this work, we propose to study what happens when the external forcing is perturbed by a continuo ...

2024

Three-wave-mixing quantum-limited kinetic inductance parametric amplifier operating at 6 T near 1 K

Pasquale Scarlino, Simone Frasca, Guillaume Beaulieu, Camille René Charles Roy

Parametric amplifiers play a crucial role in modern quantum technology by enabling the enhancement of weak signals with minimal added noise. Traditionally, Josephson junctions have been the primary choice for constructing parametric amplifiers. Nevertheles ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Self-sustained dynamics and forced resonant oscillations in flows: cross-junction jets and sloshing liquids

Alessandro Bongarzone

In engineering, oscillatory instabilities and resonances are often considered undesirable flow features and measures are taken to avoid them. This may include avoiding certain parametric regions or implementing control and mitigation strategies. However, t ...

EPFL2023

Balancing high-speed rotors at low speed using optimized parametric excitation and tuned nonlinear feedback

Amit Yedidia Dolev

The paper presents an improved slow-speed mass balancing procedure capable of reducing high-speed related imbalance. Parametric excitation is used to project the small imbalance forces onto a chosen mode of vibration, corresponding to a high critical rotat ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Time-continuous Travelling-Wave Optical Parametric Amplification in a Photonic Circuit

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

We demonstrate a traveling wave parametric amplifier in a photonic Si3N4 integrated spiral waveguide of 2.0 m length with footprint 3x5 mm. We achieve net gain of 7 dB on-chip and 2 dB fiberto-fiber in the optical C-band. (C) 2022 The Author(s) ...

IEEE2022

Probing the Material Loss and Optical Nonlinearity of Integrated Photonic Materials

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Guanhao Huang

Optical absorption and nonlinear index are important performance drivers in devices like microcombs and parametric oscillators. Here we use resonance-enhanced nonlinear spectroscopy to characterize absorption limits and nonlinear index for some integrated ...

IEEE2021

Networks of Coupled VO2 Oscillators for Neuromorphic Computing

Elisabetta Corti

Neuromorphic computing is a wide research field aimed to the realization of brain-inspired hardware, apt to tackle computation of unstructured data more efficiently than currently done with standard computational units. Oscillatory neural networks are know ...

EPFL2021

Feedback-free microfluidic oscillator with impinging jets

Philippe Renaud, François Gallaire, Arnaud Bertsch, Alessandro Bongarzone, Margaux Catherine Marie Duchamp

The present paper describes a microfluidic oscillator based on facing impinging jets and operating in laminar flow conditions. Using appropriate microchannel configurations, pulsatile liquid flows are generated at the microscale from steady and equal inlet ...

2020

Teaching optics to a machine learning network

Olivier Martin, André-Pierre Blanchard-Dionne

In this Letter, we demonstrate how harmonic oscillator equations can be integrated in a neural network to improve the spectral response prediction for an optical system. We use the optical properties of a one-dimensional nanoslit array for a practical impl ...

2020

Multimode microwave circuit optomechanics as a platform to study coupled quantum harmonic oscillators

Nathan Rafaël Bernier

Harmonic oscillators might be one of the most fundamental entities described by physics. Yet they stay relevant in recent research. The topological properties associated with exceptional points that can occur when two modes interact have generated much int ...

EPFL2019

Side emissions during EC injection for PDI studies in FTU tokamak

Gabriele Grosso, Cristian Galperti

The evidence of Parametric Decay Instabilities (PDI) excited by the ECH power injected in O-Mode has been explored in FTU Tokamak, using the Collective Thomson Scattering (CTS) diagnostic. The experiments show evidences to support the hypothesis of low-thr ...

E D P SCIENCES2019

Input-Admittance Passivity Compliance for Grid-Connected Converters With an LCL Filter

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández

This work presents a design methodology and its experimental validation for the input-admittance passivity compliance of LCL grid-connected converters. The designs of the LCL filter parameters and discrete controller are addressed systematically, and suita ...

2019

Parametric amplification and bidirectional invisibility in PT-symmetric time-Floquet systems

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas

Parity-time (PT)-symmetric wave devices, which exploit balanced interactions between material gain and loss, exhibit extraordinary properties, including lasing and flux-conserving scattering processes. In a seemingly different research field, periodically ...

2018

Correlated Decay of Triplet Excitations in the Shastry-Sutherland Compound SrCu2(BO3)(2)

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Joël Mesot

The temperature dependence of the gapped triplet excitations (triplons) in the 2D Shastry-Sutherland quantum magnet SrCu2(BO3)(2) is studied by means of inelastic neutron scattering. The excitation amplitude rapidly decreases as a function of temperature, ...

American Physical Society2014

Room temperature strong coupling between a microwave oscillator and an ensemble of electron spins

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, David Michael Suter, Jens Anders, Gabriele Gualco

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the possibility to achieve the strong coupling regime at room temperature with a microwave electronic oscillator coupled with an ensemble of electron spins. The coupled system shows bistable behaviour, with a ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2013

Temporally aliased video microscopy: an undersampling method for in-plane modal analysis of microelectromechanical systems

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Christophe Yamahata, Marc Stranczl

A simple optical method is proposed for performing in-plane experimental modal analysis of micromachined structures with a conventional charge-coupled device (CCD) camera. The motion of a micromechanical device actuated by high frequency sinusoidal forces ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Electromechanically induced absorption in a circuit nano-electromechanical system

Tobias Kippenberg, Albert Schliesser, Xiaoqing Zhou

A detailed analysis of electromechanically induced absorption (EMIA) in a circuit nano-electromechanical hybrid system consisting of a superconducting microwave resonator coupled to a nanomechanical beam is presented. By performing two-tone spectroscopy ex ...

Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft2012

Epitaxial Piezoelectric MEMS on Silicon

Don Isarakorn

Integration of new functional materials into silicon microsystems is a key factor to enable technology for a wide range of innovative MEMS devices. Piezoelectric materials are of primary interest for integrating sensing and actuation functions in MEMS due ...

EPFL2011

Parametric Resonance in Time-Dependent Networks of Hopf Oscillators

Max-Olivier Hongler, Julio Rodriguez

We study a collection of limit cycle oscillators with different frequencies interacting via networks. With static networks, our specific class of models produces a frequency learning mechanism leading the collection of oscillators to ultimately adopt a sin ...

2010

Active Microelectromechanical Resonator : The Vibrating Body Field Effect Transistor

The progress in the technology of microelectronic devices has led to a strong miniaturization and high performance for circuits and systems, enabling modern applications such as mobile computing and communications. Today, remaining "off-chip" components th ...

EPFL2010