Publications related to Demonstration of Electron-Bernstein-Wave Heating in a Tokamak via O-X-B Double-Mode Conversion

Numerical and experimental investigations of a microwave interferometer for the negative ion source SPIDER

Ivo Furno, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

The electron density close to the extraction grids and the co-extracted electrons represent a crucial issue when operating negative ion sources for fusion reactors. An excessive electron density in the plasma expansion region can indeed inhibit the negativ ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Inflight Microwave Drying Process of Micro-droplets for High Resolution 3D printing

Kwanghoon Choi

A new Additive-Manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing concept is proposed to improve the printing resolution for metal additive manufacturing in the frame of the SFA-AM project, Powder Focusing for Beam-Induced Laser 3D Printing. The project aims to transport s ...

EPFL2022

Quantum coherent microwave-optical transduction using high-overtone bulk acoustic resonances

Tobias Kippenberg

A device capable of converting single quanta of the microwave field to the optical domain is an outstanding endeavor in the context of quantum interconnects between distant superconducting qubits, but likewise can have applications in other fields, such as ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Coherent terahertz-to-microwave link using electro-optic-modulated Turing rolls

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth

Arising from modulation instability, Turing rolls in optical Kerr microresonators have been used in the generation of optical frequency combs and the synthesis of microwave and terahertz frequencies. In this work, by applying electro-optic modulation on te ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Gain-switched semiconductor laser driven soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

Dissipative Kerr soliton generation using self-injection-locked III-V lasers has enabled fully integrated hybrid microcombs that operate in turnkey mode and can access microwave repetition rates. Yet, continuous-wave-driven soliton microcombs exhibit low e ...

Nature Research2021

High-Throughput Nanocapillary Filling Enabled by Microwave Radiation for Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy Imaging

Aleksandra Radenovic, Georg Fantner, Sebastian James Davis, Samuel Mendes Leitão, Sanjin Marion, Vytautas Navikas

Solid-state nanopores provide a highly sensitive tool for single-molecule sensing and probing nanofluidic effects in solutions. Glass nanopipettes are a cheap and robust type of solid-state nanopore produced from pulling glass capillaries with opening orif ...

2020

Frequency division using a soliton-injected semiconductor gain-switched frequency comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng

With optical spectral marks equally spaced by a frequency in the microwave or the radio frequency domain, optical frequency combs have been used not only to synthesize optical frequencies from microwave references but also to generate ultralow-noise microw ...

2020

Multimode microwave circuit optomechanics as a platform to study coupled quantum harmonic oscillators

Nathan Rafaël Bernier

Harmonic oscillators might be one of the most fundamental entities described by physics. Yet they stay relevant in recent research. The topological properties associated with exceptional points that can occur when two modes interact have generated much int ...

EPFL2019

Study of additive manufactured microwave cavities for pulsed optically pumped atomic clock applications

Anja Skrivervik, Emile Jacques de Rijk

Additive manufacturing (AM) of passive microwave components is of high interest for the cost-effective and rapid prototyping or manufacture of devices with complex geometries. Here, we present an experimental study on the properties of recently demonstrate ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2018

Nonreciprocal reconfigurable microwave optomechanical circuit

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, Marie Adrienne Ioannou, László Dániel Tóth, Akshay Koottandavida

Nonreciprocal devices, such as isolators, are required to protect sensitive superconducting quantum circuits. Growing research has focused on integrated alternatives to the existing bulky ferrite technologies. Here we realize a nonreciprocal isolator with ...

IEEE2018

High Performance, Continuously Tunable Microwave Filters Using MEMS Devices With Very Large, Controlled, Out-of-Plane Actuation

Matthias Imboden

Software defined radios (SDR) in the microwave X- and K-bands offer the promise of low cost, programmable operation with real-time frequency agility. However, the real world in which such radios operate requires them to be able to detect nanowatt signals i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Dissipation as a resource in circuit quantum electromechanics

László Dániel Tóth

A primary challenge in quantum science and technology is to isolate the fragile quantum states from their environment in order to prevent the irreversible leakage of energy and information which causes decoherence. In the late 1990s, however, a new paradig ...

EPFL2018

Novel Sample Formulations for Pure and Persistent Hyperpolarized Solutions via Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Basile Vuichoud

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy allows one to study and analyze the structure, motions and interactions of a broad variety of molecules. However, this technique has a major inconvenience: its low sensitivity, which therefore often results in ...

EPFL2017

A dissipative quantum reservoir for microwave light using a mechanical oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth

Isolation of a system from its environment is often desirable, from precision measurements to control of individual quantum systems; however, dissipation can also be a useful resource. Remarkably, engineered dissipation enables the preparation of quantum s ...

2017

Counting the cycles of light using a self-referenced optical microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Victor Brasch, John David Jost, Caroline Marie Anne Lecaplain

Phase coherently linking optical-to-radio frequencies with femtosecond mode-locked laser frequency combs has enabled counting the cycles of light and is the basis of optical clocks, absolute frequency synthesis, tests of fundamental physics, and improved s ...

Optical Soc Amer2015

Avalanche noise diodes: A compact circuit model compatible with advanced CAD tools

Christian Enz, Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Gabriele Tasselli

This paper proposes, for the first time, a compact model for avalanche noise diodes that can easily be inserted in advanced CAD tools. The model is based on the theory of the Read type microwave avalanche diodes. It fully accounts for the electronic tuning ...

IEEE2015

Amplifying Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Frozen Solutions by Incorporating Dielectric Particles

Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini

There is currently great interest in understanding the limits on NMR signal enhancements provided by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), and in particular if the theoretical maximum enhancements can be achieved. We show that over a 2-fold improvement in cr ...

American Chemical Society2014

Dynamic nuclear polarisation via the integrated solid effect II: experiments on naphthalene-h(8) doped with pentacene-d(14)

Tim Rolf Eichhorn

In dynamic nuclear polarisation (DNP), also called hyperpolarisation, a small amount of unpaired electron spins is added to the sample containing the nuclear spins, and the polarisation of these unpaired electron spins is transferred to the nuclear spins b ...

Taylor & Francis2014

On the low temperature microwave absorption anomaly in single-wall carbon nanotubes

László Forró, Ferenc Simon

The low temperature microwave absorption anomaly reported by Corzilius et al. [Phys. Rev. B 75, 235416 (2007)] in single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is revisited. It was originally reported that the microwave absorption of CVD grown SWCNTs shows an unex ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2012

Economic and environmental assessment of alternative production methods for composite aircraft components

Véronique Michaud, Fabrice Gaille, Rémy Teuscher, Robert Andrew Witik

The use of carbon fibre reinforced plastics is steadily increasing in the aerospace industry as rising fuel costs and concerns over the environment push airframe manufacturers to improve aircraft efficiency. The high costs associated with manufacturing car ...

Elsevier2012