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Thermally stable access to microresonator solitons via slow pump modulation

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Victor Brasch, Tobias Herr

Temporal dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in microresonators provide ultra-short optical pulses and low-noise frequency combs with gigahertz to terahertz repetition rates. Owing to their unique properties, they have found application in fields, including o ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

Dissipative Solitons and Switching Waves in Dispersion-Modulated Kerr Cavities

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Miles Henry Anderson, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alisa Davydova

We theoretically and experimentally investigate the formation of dissipative coherent structures in Kerr nonlinear optical microresonators, whose spectrum encompasses an integrated dispersion that exceeds the cavity free-spectral range. We are able to acce ...

American Physical Society2023

Thermal intermodulation noise in cavity-based measurements

Tobias Kippenberg, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Sergey Fedorov, Alberto Beccari, Amirali Arabmoheghi

Thermal frequency fluctuations in optical cavities limit the sensitivity of precision experiments ranging from gravitational wave observatories to optical atomic clocks. Conventional modeling of these noises assumes a linear response of the optical field t ...

2020

Breathing dissipative solitons in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

Dissipative solitons are self-localized structures resulting from a double balance between dispersion and nonlinearity as well as dissipation and a driving force. They occur in a wide variety of fields ranging from optics, hydrodynamics to chemistry and bi ...

Springer Nature2017

Piezoelectric actuation for integrated photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Andrey Voloshin, Viacheslav Snigirev, Terence Albert Emile Blésin, Andrea Bancora, Vladimir Shadymov

Recent decades have seen significant advancements in integrated photonics, driven by improvements in nanofabrication technology. This field has been developed from integrated semiconductor lasers and low-loss waveguides to optical modulators, enabling the ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Near ultraviolet photonic integrated lasers based on silicon nitride

Tobias Kippenberg, Nicolas Grandjean, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Andrey Voloshin, Grigorii Likhachev, Camille Haller

Low phase noise lasers based on the combination of III-V semiconductors and silicon photonics are well established in the near-infrared spectral regime. Recent advances in the development of low-loss silicon nitride-based photonic integrated resonators hav ...

AIP Publishing2022

Integrated chirped photonic-crystal cavities in gallium phosphide for broadband soliton generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Miles Henry Anderson, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

Chirped mirrors have underpinned advances in ultra-fast lasers based on bulk optics but have yet to be fully exploited in integrated photonics, where they could provide a means to engineer otherwise unattainable dispersion profiles for a range of nonlinear ...

2024

Elastic strain engineering for ultralow mechanical dissipation

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

Extreme stresses can be produced in nanoscale structures, a feature which has been used to realize enhanced materials properties, such as the high mobility of silicon in modern transistors. Here we show how nanoscale stress can be used to realize exception ...

IEEE2018

Formation and Collision of Multistability-Enabled Composite Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Wenle Weng, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

Multistability in Kerr resonators which are driven by continuous or modulated optical waves gives rise to the superposition of distinct nonlinear states, yielding a unique platform for studying complex soliton dynamics. Here, by pumping a crystalline micro ...

American Physical Society2020

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

Roadmap on multimode light shaping

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger

Our ability to generate new distributions of light has been remarkably enhanced in recent years. At the most fundamental level, these light patterns are obtained by ingeniously combining different electromagnetic modes. Interestingly, the modal superpositi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Efficient mass manufacturing of high-density, ultra-low-loss Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Yang Liu

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer significant advantages over traditional silicon photonics, including low loss and superior power handling at optical communication wavelength bands. To facilitate high-density integration an ...

2024

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

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

Nonreciprocity in Microwave Optomechanical Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth, Olexiy Feofanov

Nonreciprocal devices such as isolators and circulators are necessary to protect sensitive apparatus from unwanted noise. Recently, a variety of alternatives were proposed to replace ferrite-based commercial technologies, with the motivation to be integrat ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Raman Self-Frequency Shift of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in an Optical Microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Arne Kordts, Victor Brasch, Michail Zervas, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

The formation of temporal dissipative Kerr solitons in microresonators driven by a continuous-wave laser enables the generation of coherent, broadband, and spectrally smooth optical frequency combs as well as femtosecond pulse sources with compact form fac ...

American Physical Society2016

Parallel Transduction of Nanomechanical Motion Using Plasmonic Resonators

Tobias Kippenberg

We demonstrate parallel transduction of thermally driven mechanical motion of an array of gold-coated silicon nitride nanomechanical beams, by using near-field confinement in plasmonic metal-insulator metal resonators supported in the gap between the gold ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in Si3N4 microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Michail Zervas

Octave-spanning, self-referenced frequency combs are applied in diverse fields ranging from precision metrology to astrophysical spectrometer calibration. The octave-spanning optical bandwidth is typically generated through non-linear spectral broadening o ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

Self-referenced photonic chip soliton Kerr frequency comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Victor Brasch, John David Jost, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

Self-referencing turns pulsed laser systems into self-referenced frequency combs. Such frequency combs allow counting of optical frequencies and have a wide range of applications. The required optical bandwidth to implement self-referencing is typically ob ...

2017

Coupling Ideality of Integrated Planar High-Q Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

Chip-scale optical microresonators with integrated planar optical waveguides are useful building blocks for linear, nonlinear, and quantum-optical photonic devices alike. Loss reduction through improving fabrication processes results in several integrated ...

American Physical Society (APS)2017