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EPFL2025

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Hybrid photonic integrated lasers have revolutionized laser technology by combining the scalable manufacturing of simple laser diodes with high-performance features such as frequency stability, opticallinewidth, and tuning linearity [1], traditionally only ...

IEEE2025

Guided Nonlinear Optics for Information Processing

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This special issue explores the dynamic and rapidly evolving field of optical computing, with a focus on guided nonlinear optics for information processing. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in this area [1], fuelled by groundbreaking experim ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2025

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

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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

Non-linear enhancement of ultrafast X-ray diffraction through transient resonances

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Diffraction-before-destruction imaging with ultrashort X-ray pulses can visualize non-equilibrium processes, such as chemical reactions, with sub-femtosecond precision in the native environment. Here, a nanospecimen diffracts a single X-ray flash before it ...

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Sub-2W tunable laser based on silicon photonics power amplifier

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High-power tunable lasers are intensely pursued due to their vast application potential such as in telecom, ranging, and molecular sensing. Integrated photonics, however, is usually considered not suitable for high-power applications mainly due to its smal ...

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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

On the Use of UV Femtosecond Pulses to Write Waveguides in Fused Silica

Yves Bellouard, Lisa Jutta Ackermann

Ultraviolet (UV) pulses at 450 fs are a powerful tool for femtosecond laser waveguide writing in fused silica. Whereas typically sub-200 fs pulses at a high exposure dose were required, UV light efficiently creates waveguides with propagation losses below ...

IEEE2025

Field-Resolved Detection of Broadband Terahertz Pulses with Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Integrated Microring Resonators

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino, Jiawen Liu

The Terahertz (THz) frequency domain lies between the realms of microwave and optics, with frequencies conventionally spanning the 0.1-10 THz spectral range [1]. Many commercially-available THz systems routinely exploits optical down/up conversion mechanis ...

IEEE2025

Training hybrid neural networks with multimode optical nonlinearities using digital twins

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Niyazi Ulas Dinç, Ilker Oguz, Mustafa Yildirim, Jih-Liang Hsieh

The ability to train ever-larger neural networks brings artificial intelligence to the forefront of scientific and technical discoveries. However, their exponentially increasing size creates a proportionally greater demand for energy and computational hard ...

Walter de Gruyter GmbH2025

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 ...

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Quench Detection and Temperature Measurement With Fiber Optic Sensors

Davide Uglietti, Kamil Sedlák

For the EU DEMO conductor testing, a temperature sensor based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) optical fiber is studied at the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center. The SULTAN test facility has been upgraded to use fiber optic sensor for temperature monitoring and quench ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Light-Intensity Switching of Graphene/WSe2 Synaptic Devices

Giulia Tagliabue, Tarique Anwar, Hongyu Tang

2D van der Waals heterojunctions (vdWH) have emerged as an attractive platform for the realization of optoelectronic synaptic devices, which are critical for energy-efficient computing systems. Photogating induced by charge traps at the interfaces indeed r ...

Wiley2024

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

Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics

Guanhao Huang

Quantum optics studies how photons interact with other forms of matter, the understanding of which was crucial for the development of quantum mechanics as a whole. Starting from the photoelectric effect, the quantum property of light has led to the develop ...

EPFL2024

Generation of entangled photon pairs from a silicon bichromatic photonic crystal cavity

Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi

Integrated quantum photonics leverages the on-chip generation of nonclassical states of light to realize key functionalities of quantum devices. Typically, the generation of such nonclassical states relies on whispering gallery mode resonators, such as int ...

Aip Publishing2024

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

Influence of ionization and cumulative effects on laser-induced crystallization in multilayer dielectrics

Yves Bellouard, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Ruben Ricca

Crystallization of amorphous layers has been demonstrated under various radically different laser-exposure conditions, including continuous wave (cw) and pulsed lasers. Here, we investigate the specific role of ionization in the crystallization of dielectr ...

2024

3D diffractive optics for linear interconnects and nonlinear processing

Niyazi Ulas Dinç

The optical domain presents potential avenues for enhancing both computing and communication due to its inherent properties of bandwidth, parallelism, and energy efficiency. This research focuses on harnessing 3-Dimensional (3D) diffractive optics for nove ...

EPFL2024

Emergent nonlinear dynamics in photonic lattices

Aleksandr Tusnin

Since the discovery of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators, significant progress has been made in the understanding of the underlying physical principles from the fundamental side and generation of broadband coherent optical Kerr frequency ...

EPFL2024