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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

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

Guided Nonlinear Optics for Information Processing

Demetri Psaltis

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

Ultrafast Tunable Photonic Integrated Extended-DBR Pockels Laser

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

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

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

Joao Carlos Menezes Carreira, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

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 ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling

Hatice Altug, Ivan Sinev, Mikhail Masharin

Metasurfaces provide an ideal platform for optical sensing because they produce strong light-field confinement and enhancement over extended regions that allow us to identify deep-subwavelength layers of organic and inorganic molecules. However, the requir ...

Nature Publishing Group2025

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

Ultraviolet to mid-infrared optical properties of sputtered Al(Sc)N-on-SiO2 thin films and experimental demonstration of AlN integrated photonic devices in the telecom C-band

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Hernán Furci

Thin film aluminum nitride (AlN) stands out as a promising material for integrated photonics due to its wide bandgap of 6.1 eV, facilitating efficient operation across diverse spectral ranges. Its inherent electro-optic and nonlinear optical properties mak ...

2024

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

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

Foundry compatible, efficient wafer-scale manufacturing of ultra-low loss, high-density Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji

We demonstrate ultra-low propagation loss, lithographic precision, and wafer-scale manufacturing for high-density Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits using an efficient DUV-based subtractive approach. We show a propagation loss as low as 1.4 dB/m at 1.55 µm ...

Optical Society of America2024

A fully hybrid integrated erbium-based laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Andrey Voloshin, Yang Liu, Andrea Bancora

Erbium-doped fibre lasers exhibit high coherence and low noise as required for fibre-optic sensing, gyroscopes, LiDAR and optical frequency metrology. Endowing erbium-based gain in photonic integrated circuits can provide a basis for miniaturizing low-nois ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

Observation of Fundamental Charge Noise in Electro-Optic Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Guanhao Huang, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

We observed that Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate photonic integrated microresonators exhibit an unexpected Flicker type (i.e. 1/f1.2) scaling in the intrinsic refractive noise spectrum, significantly deviating from the well-established thermorefracti ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Thermo-optic epsilon-near-zero effects

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Jiaye Wu

Nonlinear epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nanodevices featuring vanishing permittivity and CMOS-compatibility are attractive solutions for large-scale-integrated systems-on-chips. Such confined systems with unavoidable heat generation impose critical challenges fo ...

Nature Portfolio2024

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

Photoinduced Second-Order Nonlinearities in Centrosymmetric Media

Ozan Yakar

The interaction of light and matter enables nonlinear frequency conversion and the creation of coherent currents. The optical control of electric currents is of fundamental relevance and prominent research focus in the last decades. These photocurrents ena ...

EPFL2024

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

Domain Imaging and Switching Dynamics in BaTiO3-Based Photonic Integrated Devices

Jacqueline Geler Kremer

Keeping up with our constantly connected lifestyle of instant messages and video streaming has its repercussions. Data centers have been gobbling up resources becoming a significant share of the energy used worldwide. To keep up with demand and curb the en ...

EPFL2023

Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in III-Nitride Doubly Resonant Photonic Crystal Cavities

Jun Wang

Nonlinear frequency conversion processes, such as second-harmonic generation (SHG) and spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), are essential in many applications, including the generation of entangled photons. It's desirable to enhance these process ...

EPFL2023

Photonic Processing of MAPbI(3) Films by Flash Annealing and Rapid Growth for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells (vol 6, 2200641, 2022)

Sandy Sanchez Alonso

2023