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Electrically tunable optical resonator on a chip for fast tunable integrated lasers

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Grigorii Likhachev

The present invention relates to an electrically tunable photonic resonator device for a component having a fast and flat actuation response, comprising: - At least one optical waveguide with an optical interface for coupling in laser light, - At least one ...

2022

Broadband and high-gain traveling-wave optical parametric amplification in a gallium phosphide photonic integrated circuit

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Alberto Nardi

We demonstrate continuous-wave parametric amplifier w ith a 1 40 n m gain bandwidth spanning the optical S,C, and L-bands and up to 25 dB off-chip net-gain in a dispersion engineered gallium phosphide-on-insulator (GaPOI) waveguide with up to 160 mW output ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Method and setup for light detection and ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anton Lukashchuk

A method and a setup for light detection and ranging are disclosed. The setup is configured to carry out the following method: generating signal radiation (S) at multiple signal frequencies (fs) with an optical signal source (1), wherein the signal radiati ...

2023

Microresonator soliton based massively parallel coherent LiDAR

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate an architecture for massively parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR) by transferring linear chirps of a single narrow linewidth laser onto all soliton comb teeth though generation of a dissipative Kerr soli ...

IEEE2020

Observation of Fundamental Charge Noise in Electro-Optic Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Guanhao Huang, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

We observed that Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate photonic integrated microresonators exhibit an unexpected Flicker type (i.e. 1/f1.2) scaling in the intrinsic refractive noise spectrum, significantly deviating from the well-established thermorefracti ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Method for operating a frequency agile tunable self-injection locking laser system and self-injection locking laser system

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Grigorii Likhachev

The invention relates to a Method for operating a frequency agile tunable self-injection locking laser system being formed by a laser device coupled to at least one optical resonator, wherein a diode current of a laser diode of the laser device is controll ...

2023

Photonic microwave generation in the X- and K-band using integrated soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

Microwave photonic technologies, which upshift the carrier into the optical domain, have facilitated the generation and processing of ultra-wideband electronic signals at vastly reduced fractional bandwidths. For microwave photonic applications such as rad ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Low-noise, Frequency-agile, Hybrid Integrated Laser for LiDAR

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev

We demonstrate a hybrid photonic integrated laser with intrinsic linewidth of 40 Hz, while offering megahertz actuation bandwidth with the tuning range larger than 1 GHz, attained by a DFB laser self-injection locking to a high-Q Si3N4 microresonator with ...

IEEE2021

Optical frequency comb based parallel fm lidar

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anton Lukashchuk

In a LIDAR device (100) a laser light source (110) generates first laser light having a first laser frequency which is frequency modulated with a first frequency modulation. A non-linear optical element (120) receives the first laser light and generates th ...

2021

A fully hybrid integrated erbium-based laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Andrey Voloshin, Yang Liu, Andrea Bancora

Erbium-doped fibre lasers exhibit high coherence and low noise as required for fibre-optic sensing, gyroscopes, LiDAR and optical frequency metrology. Endowing erbium-based gain in photonic integrated circuits can provide a basis for miniaturizing low-nois ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

Piezoelectrically tunable, narrow linewidth photonic integrated extended-DBR lasers

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu, Andrey Voloshin, Junyin Zhang, Andrea Bancora, Simone Bianconi

Recent advancements in ultra-low-loss silicon nitride (Si3N4)-based photonic integrated circuits have surpassed fiber lasers in coherence and frequency agility. However, high manufacturing costs of DFB and precise control requirements, as required for self ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Photonic assembly tunable via the pockels effect and method for use in frequency-modulated lidar

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Viacheslav Snigirev, Grigorii Likhachev

A photonic assembly, a laser setup comprising said photonic assembly and a method for performing frequency-modulated continuous-wave light detection and ranging using said laser setup are disclosed. The photonic assembly (1) comprises an active photonic ch ...

2023

Programmable Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits

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

Silicon Nitride (Si3N4) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as core technology in a variety of applications ranging from LIDAR to quantum control and computing. However, the need for high-speed, low-voltage tuning and modulation has been a lon ...

IEEE2023

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

Ring a ring o' pulses

Johann Emmeram Riemensberger

Quantum cascade lasers are bright and compact semiconductor lasers that emit light in the mid- to far-infrared spectral region. The use of a closed ring cavity has now set them on the path towards ultrafast pulses. ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Simulating Mold Risks under Future Climate Conditions

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev

This research tests the potential susceptibility of a prevalent, residential, wall assembly to the risk of sustained mold-growth in predicted future climate conditions. Here, the authors demonstrate a methodology that combines hygrothermal and mold-growth ...

IEEE2021

Protected generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in supermodes of coupled optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

A photonic dimer composed of two evanescently coupled high-Q microresonators is a fundamental element of multimode soliton lattices. It has demonstrated a variety of emergent nonlinear phenomena, including supermode soliton generation and soliton hopping. ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2022

Actuation bandwidth extension of an integrated piezo-optomechanical nanophotonic device

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Wenle Weng, Anat Siddharth

We demonstrate a novel technique of contour-mode suppression of an integrated MEMS-photonic chip up to the first HBAR mode at 17 MHz. The flattened actuation response is critical to the development of compact LiDAR engine or low-noise frequency-agile laser ...

IEEE2021

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

Lithium Tantalate Photonic Integrated Circuits (Student Paper)

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li, Chengli Wang

We demonstrate a wafer-scale lithium tantalate photonic platform with loss as low as 5.5 dB m(-1). Mach-Zehnder modulators with a 40 GHz electro-optical bandwidth and a 1.96 V center dot cm voltage-length product, along with microresonators supporting diss ...

Springer Nature2024