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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

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

Study on the possibility of Φ-OTDR sensing in hollow-core fibres

Luc Thévenaz, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Yuting Yang

The backscattering process in hollow core fibres shows a large similarity with Rayleigh scattering, offering the potential to be exploited for distributed sensing. A classical Φ-OTDR implementation is used to observe the backscattering signal from the surf ...

SPIE2023

Electric-field poling of silicon nitride waveguides for the linear phase modulation

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich, Anton Stroganov

Stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4) constitutes a mature platform for integrated photonics. Its pertinent properties, including wide transparency window from the visible to the mid-IR, low propagation loss, and high third-order nonlinearity, are exploit ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

Multi-material Optoelectronic Fiber Devices

Fabien Sorin, Alexis Gérald Page, Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Marco Volpi

The recent ability to integrate materials with different optical and optoelectronic properties in prescribed architectures within flexible fibers is enabling novel opportunities for advanced optical probes, functional surfaces and smart textiles. In partic ...

SPIE-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

Versatile short-wave and mid-infrared sources based on wideband parametric conversion

Adrien Billat

The mid-infrared part of the optical spectrum is of high interest in a wide range of applications such as environmental gas monitoring, contaminant detection in the chemical, food or pharmaceutical industry, medical diagnosis, or defense and security. Rele ...

EPFL2017

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

Intralaminar fracture of unidirectional carbon/epoxy composite: experimental results and numerical analysis

John Botsis, Georgios Pappas

Fracture of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) is dominated by large scale fiber bridging which acts as a very important toughening mechanism. The objective of this paper is to investigate the intralaminar Mode I fracture in a unidirectional CFRP com ...

Elsevier2016

Microwave photonics filtering technique for interrogating long weak fiber Bragg grating sensors

Luc Thévenaz

A system to interrogate photonic sensors based on long weak fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is presented and experimentally demonstrated, dedicated to measure the precise location of several spot events. The principle of operation is based on a technique used ...

SPIE2014

Towards 1’000’000 resolved points in a distributed optical fibre sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Increasing the number of resolved points, by either improving the spatial resolution or extending the measurement range, is one of the main challenges being currently faced in distributed optical fibre sensing. This paper explores the main parameters affec ...

SPIE2014

Sub-centimetre Spatial Resolution in Distributed Fibre Sensing, based on Dynamic Brillouin Grating in Optical Fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

Optical fibre sensors based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers have now clearly demonstrated their excellent capability for long-range distributed strain and temperature measurements. The fibre is used as sensing element and a value for t ...

2012

Advanced trends in nonlinear optics applied to distributed optical-fibre sensors

Dario Alasia

The distributed optical-fibre sensors based on the properties of Brillouin scattering is the central object of this thesis. In the past decade, optical fibres have gained a large interest as sensors: attractive solutions based on the non-linear stimulated ...

EPFL2006

Etude et réalisation de cristaux photoniques pour l'optique intégrée

Benoît Lombardet

Photonic crystals are periodic dielectric structures, where the periodicity varies on the wavelength scale. Analogous to electrons in semiconductors, the photon propagation can be described using a band structure in which transmission bands are separated b ...

EPFL2005