Publications by Tobias Kippenberg

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Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Yujia Yang, Jiahe Pan

Integrated photonics facilitates extensive control over fundamental light-matter interactions in manifold quantum systems including atoms(1), trapped ions(2,3), quantum dots(4) and defect centres(5). Ultrafast electron microscopy has recently made free-ele ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Quantum coherent microwave-optical transduction using high-overtone bulk acoustic resonances

Tobias Kippenberg, Terence Albert Emile Blésin

A device capable of converting single quanta of the microwave field to the optical domain is an outstanding endeavor in the context of quantum interconnects between distant superconducting qubits, but likewise can have applications in other fields, such as ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Nonlinear states and dynamics in a synthetic frequency dimension

Tobias Kippenberg, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

Recent advances in the study of synthetic dimensions revealed a possibility to employ the frequency space as an additional degree of freedom which allows for investigating and exploiting higher-dimensional phenomena in a priori low-dimensional systems. How ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Generalized dissipation dilution in strained mechanical resonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Nils Johan Engelsen, Sergey Fedorov, Ryan Daniel Schilling, Amir Hossein Ghadimi

Mechanical resonators with high quality factors are widely used in precision experiments, ranging from gravitational wave detection and force sensing to quantum optomechanics. Beams and membranes are well known to exhibit flexural modes with enhanced quali ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

A cryogenic electro-optic interconnect for superconducting devices

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Lukashchuk, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni, Amir Youssefi, Philipp Johann Uhrich

A major challenge to the scalability of cryogenic computing platforms is the heat load associated with the growing number of electrical cable connections between the superconducting circuitry and the room-temperature environment. Compared with electrical c ...

2021

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

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

Intrinsic luminescence blinking from plasmonic nanojunctions

Tobias Kippenberg, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Giulia Tagliabue, Wen Chen, Sachin Suresh Verlekar, Karla Banjac, Philippe Andreas Rölli, Aqeel Ahmed

Plasmonic nanojunctions, consisting of adjacent metal structures with nanometre gaps, can support localised plasmon resonances that boost light matter interactions and concentrate electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale. In this regime, the optical respons ...

Nature Research2021

Integrated photon-pair source with monolithic piezoelectric frequency tunability

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anat Siddharth

This work demonstrates the capabilities of an entangled photon-pair source at telecom wavelengths, based on a photonic integrated Si3N4 microresonator with monolithically integrated piezoelectric frequency tuning. Previously, frequency tuning of photon pai ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Laser Cooling of a Nanomechanical Oscillator to Its Zero-Point Energy

Tobias Kippenberg, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni

Optomechanical systems in the well-resolved-sideband regime are ideal for studying a myriad of quantum phenomena with mechanical systems, including backaction-evading measurements, mechanical squeezing, and nonclassical states generation. For these experim ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Soliton microcomb based spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Jia-Jung Ho, Tobias Kippenberg, Theo Lasser, Junqiu Liu, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Paul James Marchand, Joseph Connor Skehan

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a widely employed, minimally invasive bio-medical imaging technique, which requires a broadband light source, typically implemented by super-luminescent diodes. Recent advances in soliton based photonic ...

Nature Research2021

Integrated gallium phosphide nonlinear photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Miles Henry Anderson

Gallium phosphide (GaP) is an indirect-bandgap semiconductor used widely in solid-state lighting. Despite numerous intriguing optical properties-including large chi ((2)) and chi ((3)) coefficients, a high refractive index (>3) and transparency from visibl ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Compact, spatial-mode-interaction-free, ultralow-loss, nonlinear photonic integrated circuits

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

Multi-mode waveguides are ubiquitously used in integrated photonics. Although interaction among different spatial waveguide eigenmodes can induce novel nonlinear phenomena, spatial mode interaction is typically undesired. Adiabatic bends, such as Euler ben ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Cavity Optomechanics with Whispering-Gallery Mode Optical Micro-Resonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Albert Schliesser

Parametric coupling of optical and mechanical degrees of freedom forms the basis of many ultra-sensitive measurements of both force and mechanical displacement. An optical cavity with a mechanically compliant boundary enhances the optomechanical interactio ...

2010

Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core

Xin Fu, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anton Lukashchuk

With the proliferation of ultrahigh-speed mobile networks and internet-connected devices, along with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI)(1), the world is generating exponentially increasing amounts of data that need to be processed in a fast and effic ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

320 GHz photonic-electronic analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) exploiting Kerr soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger

Kerr soliton microcombs have the potential to disrupt a variety of applications such as ultra-high-speed optical communications, ultra-fast distance measurements, massively parallel light detection and ranging (LiDAR) or high-resolution optical spectroscop ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Near-Field Integration of a SiN Nanobeam and a SiO2 Microcavity for Heisenberg-Limited Displacement Sensing

Tobias Kippenberg, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Ryan Daniel Schilling, Vivishek Sudhir, Amir Hossein Ghadimi

Placing a nanomechanical object in the evanescent near field of a high-Q optical microcavity gives access to strong gradient forces and quantum-limited displacement readout, offering an attractive platform for both precision sensing technology and basic qu ...

American Physical Society (APS)2016

Magnetic-free silicon nitride integrated optical isolator

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth, Terence Albert Emile Blésin

Integrated photonics enables signal synthesis, modulation and conversion using photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Many materials have been developed, among which silicon nitride (Si3N4) has emerged as a leading platform particularly for nonlinear photoni ...

Nature Publishing Group2021

A hybrid on-chip optomechanical transducer for ultrasensitive force measurements

Tobias Kippenberg, Emanuel Gavartin

Nanoscale mechanical oscillators(1) are used as ultrasensitive detectors of force(2), mass(3) and charge(4). Nanomechanical oscillators have also been coupled with optical and electronic resonators to explore the quantum properties of mechanical systems(5) ...

Nature Publishing Group2012

Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Victor Brasch, Miles Henry Anderson

Solitons are waveforms that preserve their shape while propagating, as a result of a balance of dispersion and nonlinearity(1,2). Soliton-based data transmission schemes were investigated in the 1980s and showed promise as a way of overcoming the limitatio ...

Nature Publishing Group2017