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Tunable pump compression and fast modulation for pulsed THz generation

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino, Yazan Lampert Almahmoud, Shima Rajabali

We demonstrate tunable dispersion compensation of femtosecond pulses at telecom wavelengths for broadband Terahertz generation in 7.5-meter fiber link using a Silicon prism pair. The prism pair enhances the amplitude of the THz E-field in InGaAs photocondu ...

IEEE2023

Terahertz waveform synthesis in integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Bridging the "terahertz gap" relies upon synthesizing arbitrary waveforms in the terahertz domain enabling applications that require both narrow band sources for sensing and few-cycle drives for classical and quantum objects. However, realization of custom ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Multiobjective Vector Modulation for Improved Control of NPC-Based Multi-Source Inverters in Hybrid Traction Systems

Andrea Cervone

The concept of a multi-source inverter (MSI) based on NPC topology was recently introduced for hybrid-electric powertrains to connect several dc sources to the traction load in a single conversion stage without magnetics. This work proposes a new modulatio ...

2022

Photonic chip-based resonant supercontinuum via pulse-driven Kerr microresonator solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Miles Henry Anderson, Tobias Herr, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

Supercontinuum generation and soliton microcomb formation both represent key techniques for the formation of coherent, ultrabroad optical frequency combs, enabling the RF-to-optical link. Coherent supercontinuum generation typically relies on ultrashort pu ...

2021

High-Speed ADC Design and Optimization for Wireline Links

Ayça Akkaya

The ever-growing global internet traffic has increased demand for higher speed data transmission. As the bandwidth requirements of wireline links increase, extensive digital equalization techniques are required to compensate for the high-frequency channel ...

EPFL2021

System and method for high beam quality pulse generation in mode-locked multimode fiber lasers

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ugur Tegin

A system and method to generate ultrashort high beam quality pulses from spatio- temporally mode-locked multimode fiber laser are described. The invention relies on engineering the intra-cavity pulse propagation in a multimode laser cavity to shape the spa ...

2021

Reconfigurable radiofrequency filters based on versatile soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jianqi Hu, Anton Lukashchuk

The rapidly maturing integrated Kerr microcombs show significant potential for microwave photonics. Yet, state-of-the-art microcomb-based radiofrequency filters have required programmable pulse shapers, which inevitably increase the system cost, footprint, ...

Nature Research2020

V-band nanosecond-scale pulse reflectometer diagnostic in the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This article describes the realization of a novel approach to short pulse (∼1 ns) reflectometry (SPR) recently implemented in the tokamak configuration variable tokamak. Taking advantage of a fast arbitrary waveform generator and vector-network-analyzer ex ...

2019

Topological Fano Resonances

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad

The Fano resonance is a widespread wave scattering phenomenon associated with a peculiar asymmetric and ultrasharp line shape, which has found applications in a large variety of prominent optical devices. While its substantial sensitivity to geometrical an ...

2019

Tokamak plasma edge studies by microwave short-pulse reflectometry and backscattering

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Moving towards an increased understanding of the dynamic processes in the edge of tokamak plasmas requires continuous innovation in diagnostic capabilities, pushing the envelope in both spatial and temporal dimenstions. Plasma density and rotation, and the ...

EPFL2019

Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Arslan Sajid Raja, Michail Zervas, Nils Johan Engelsen, Bahareh Ghadiani

The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators has provided a route to compact frequency combs of high repetition rate, which have already been employed for optical frequency synthesizers, ultrafast ranging, coherent telecommunicati ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2018

Acoustic emission source detection and wave generation on a working plate using piezoelectric actuators

Xinchang Liu

In modern automated assembly lines, part feeders play an important role to separate and sort parts. Agility and flexibility are required to achieve a good yield for different types of parts. The common working principle is to vibrate a working plate driven ...

EPFL2017

Characterization of pulse amplitude and pulse rate modulation for a human vestibular implant during acute electrical stimulation

Silvestro Micera

Objective. The vestibular system provides essential information about balance and spatial orientation via the brain to other sensory and motor systems. Bilateral vestibular loss significantly reduces quality of life, but vestibular implants (VIs) have demo ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

A low-voltage CMOS-compatible time-domain photodetector, device & front end electronics

Denis Sallin

During the last decades, the usage of silicon photodetectors, both as stand-alone sensor or integrated in arrays, grew tremendously. They are now found in almost any application and any market range, from leisure products to high-end scientific apparatuses ...

EPFL2016

Generation of 1.5-octave intense infrared pulses by nonlinear interactions in DAST crystal

Christoph Peter Hauri

Infrared pulses with large spectral width extending from 1.2 to 3.4 μm are generated in the organic crystal DAST (4-N, N-dimethylamino-4′-N′-methylstilbazolium tosylate). The input pulse has a central wavelength of 1.5 μm and 65 fs duration. With 2.8 mJ in ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Femtosecond photoelectron and photoion spectrometer with vacuum ultraviolet probe pulses

Jakob Grilj

We describe a femtosecond photoelectron and photoion spectroscopy setup using a simple, novel way to produce a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) probe pulse. We isolate the femtosecond VUV pulse from a high harmonic continuum by using the bandpass characteristics o ...

Elsevier2014

Optical Nyquist-pulse generation with a power difference to the ideal sinc-shape sequence of < 1%

Luc Thévenaz, Camille Sophie Brès, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Armand Vedadi-Comte, Mohammad Amin Shoaie, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani

Sinc-shaped Nyquist-pulses possess a rectangular spectrum. Thus, a sinc-pulse transmission minimizes the carrier spacing down to the baud rate, and therefore, substantially increases the transmissible data rates. These perspectives have led to a strong res ...

VDE Verlag GmbH2013

Generation and application of dynamic gratings in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Since the invention of optical fiber cable data transmission using light has become ubiquitous in the past years. Nonlinear optical effects, which are hardly noticed in our daily life, have become crucial and highly influential for the design and performan ...

EPFL2013

Near-Nyquist optical pulse generation with fiber optical parametric amplification

Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie, Armand Vedadi-Comte

A novel method using optical fiber parametric amplification and phase modulation is proposed in order to generate Nyquist pulses. Using parabolic pulses as a pump, we show theoretically that it is possible to generate Nyquist pulses. Furthermore, we show t ...

Optical Society of America2012

Analytical expression of pulse broadening in an arbitrary linear slow light medium

Luc Thévenaz

We derive an analytical expression for the broadening of a Gaussian input pulse in an arbitrary linear slow light medium. The expression consists of two terms, one corresponding to amplitude broadening (low-pass filtering of the pulse bandwidth) and anothe ...

2012