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De Sitter Bra-Ket wormholes

We study a model for the initial state of the universe based on a gravitational path integral that includes connected geometries which simultaneously produce bra and ket of the wave function. We argue that a natural object to describe this state is the Wig ...

Springer2025

Low-noise, frequency-agile photonic integrated lasers

Anat Siddharth

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have revolutionized optical communication and precision metrology by enabling compact, scalable, and high-performance optical systems. However, conventional integrated laser sources suffer from limitations such as poor c ...

EPFL2025

Spatial quantum-interference landscapes of multi-site-controlled quantum dots coupled to extended photonic cavity modes

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Benjamin Dwir, Alessio Massimiliano Davide Miranda

A compact platform to integrate emitters in a cavity-like support is to embed quantum dots (QDs) in a photonic crystal (PhC) structure, making them promising candidates for integrated quantum photonic circuits. The emission properties of QDs can be modifie ...

2025

Ultrafast tunable photonic-integrated extended-DBR Pockels laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu, Andrey Voloshin, Simone Bianconi

Frequency-agile lasers that can simultaneously feature low noise characteristics and fast mode-hop-free frequency tuning are keystone components for applications ranging from LiDAR and distributed sensing to communication and quantum information processing ...

Nature Publishing Group2025

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

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

Nanomechanical resonators with low dissipation for quantum optomechanics

Alberto Beccari

Fields of technology as diverse as microwave filter construction, characterization of material interfaces with atomic precision, and detection of gravitational waves from astronomical sources employ mechanical resonators at their core. The utility of mecha ...

EPFL2023

Strong-coupling magnetophononics: Self-blocking, phonon-bitriplons, and spin-band engineering

Bruce Normand

Magnetophononics, the modulation of magnetic interactions by driving infrared-active lattice excitations, is emerging as a key mechanism for the ultrafast dynamical control of both semiclassical and quantum spin systems by coherent light. We demonstrate th ...

2023

On the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with layered dielectric materials

Ruben Ricca

Materials properties are strictly dependent on their microstructure. The internal symmetries and the disposition of the constituting atoms of a material, which depend on its crystallographic structure, greatly affect its response to mechanical, electromagn ...

EPFL2023

Nonlinear Integrated Photonics for Ranging Applications

Anton Lukashchuk

This thesis explores the application of recent advances in integrated photonics to the field of light detection and ranging (LiDAR). The progress in photonic integration allows for unprecedented levels of light manipulation on micrometer scales through the ...

EPFL2023

Quantum mixed state compiling

Zoë Holmes

The task of learning a quantum circuit to prepare a given mixed state is a fundamental quantum subroutine. We present a variational quantum algorithm (VQA) to learn mixed states which is suitable for near-term hardware. Our algorithm represents a generaliz ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Microresonator Dissipative Kerr Solitons Synchronized to an Optoelectronic Oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

Using phase-modulation-induced potential gradient whose period is synchronized to a microwave opto-electronic oscillator, dissipative Kerr solitons generated in a crystalline optical microresonator are trapped by the soliton tweezing effect, exhibiting a s ...

American Physical Society (APS)2022

Effect of femtosecond laser-induced high pressure on fused silica polymorphism

Arunkrishnan Radhakrishnan

High-pressure studies in silica are of great interest to earth and planetary sciences. Highpressure phases are rarely found in nature as a result of shock events like meteorite impacts or volcanic events in nature. Recreating these phases remains a challen ...

EPFL2022

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

Laser coating of a Zr-based metallic glass on an aluminum substrate

Roland Logé, Stefano Mischler, Jamasp Jhabvala, Navid Sohrabi, Alejandro Roda Buch

Cladding of a Zr-based metallic glass (MG) on an aluminum substrate was conducted using a layer-wise laser additive manufacturing (AM) method, leading to relative densities higher than 99%. The thickness of the cladding was about 300 μm. The effect of lase ...

2020

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