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Multi-octave bandwidth supercontinuum generation in crystalline Aluminum Nitride-on-sapphire waveguides

Nicolas Grandjean, Camille Sophie Brès, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Samantha Sbarra, Samuele Brunetta

Applications such as optical clocks, gas spectroscopy, and optical coherent tomography stand to benefit significantly from the integration of on-chip supercontinuum sources. Materials exhibiting both second- and third-order nonlinearities are particularly ...

International Society for Optical Engineering2025

Coherent Dissipative Structures in Arbitrary Dispersion-Engineered Gallium Phosphide Fabry-Perot Resonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Andrey Gelash

The diversity of experimentally observed nonlinear coherent and partially coherent optical structures, including breathing, zero-dispersion, and switching wave states in driven optical microresonators, is mainly provided by cavity dispersion engineering. R ...

IEEE2025

2D Molybdenum Disulfide Embedded Photonic Crystal Fiber for all‐Fiber Phase Retarder

Xu Cheng

The integration of 2D materials with optical fibers enables multifunctional fiber devices, such as polarizers, modulators, and sensors. Recent advances in direct vapor deposition growth further enhance light‐2D material interactions to centimeter‐scale len ...

Wiley2025

An Integrated Gallium Phosphide Optical Parametric Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Alberto Nardi

Optical parametric amplification is a promising alternative to traditional erbium-doped amplifiers, offering unidirectional, low-noise, and broadband amplification. Here we present an integrated continuous-traveling-wave parametric amplifier that surpasses ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

A Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based Erbium-doped Waveguide Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Jijun He, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji

We demonstrate an erbium-doped waveguide amplifier by erbium ion implantation in Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits, achieving 145 mW on-chip output power and more than 30 dB small-signal gain, which is on par with commercial fiber amplifiers and beyond st ...

IEEE2022

Compact Integrated Silicon Photonic Mems Power Coupler For Programmable Photonics

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Programmable photonics promise a plethora of optical functions while at the same time reducing the time and costs of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) development. One primary bottleneck for development of these systems is the difficulty in increasing comp ...

IEEE2022

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Jijun He, Nikolai Kuznetsov

The ability to amplify optical signals is of pivotal importance across science and technology typically using rare-earth-doped fibres or gain media based on III-V semiconductors. A different physical process to amplify optical signals is to use the Kerr no ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Second-harmonic generation in atomically thin 1T-TiSe2 and its possible origin from charge density wave transitions

László Forró, Helmuth Berger

Optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) can only occur in noncentrosymmetric crystals in the leading electric-dipole approximation. Transition metal dichalcogenides with the 1T octahedral coordination is centrosymmetric, hence precluding SHG. Here we repo ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Integration of MEMS in Silicon Photonics

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...

EPFL2021

Broadband quasi-phase-matching in dispersion-engineered all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich

Quasi-phase-matching (QPM) has become one of the most common approaches for increasing the efficiency of nonlinear three-wave mixing processes in integrated photonic circuits. Here, we provide a study of dispersion engineering of QPM second-harmonic (SH) g ...

2020

Formation Rules and Dynamics of Photoinduced χ(2) Gratings in Silicon Nitride Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Davide Grassani, Edgars Nitiss, Tianyi Liu

Silicon nitride has emerged as a prominent platform for building photonics integrated circuits. While its nonlinear properties based on third-order effects have been successfully exploited, an efficient second harmonic generation in standard stoichiometric ...

2020

MEMS for Photonic Integrated Circuits

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

The field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is reviewed. This field leverages mechanics at the nanometer to micrometer scale to improve existing components and introduce novel functionalities in PICs. This rev ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Dynamics and Applications of Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Maxim Karpov

Optical frequency combs are optical sources, which spectrum consists of a series of equally spaced narrowband frequencies. They made an outstanding leap forward in the accuracy of optical frequency metrology and became an attractive tool for numerous appli ...

EPFL2020

Large stimulated Brillouin scattering amplification in gases

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger

We exploit backward stimulated Brillouin scattering in gases to achieve unprecedented nonlinear optical amplification in fibers. The gain coefficient is 10 times larger than any reported nonlinear gain in gas-filled HC-PCF and 6 times larger than the large ...

SPIE2019

Resonant Waveguide Gratings for Color-Selective Diffraction

Giorgio Quaranta

Resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs), also known as guided mode resonant (GMR) gratings or waveguide-mode resonant gratings, are dielectric structures where these resonant diffractive elements benefit from lateral leaky guided modes and can operate from UV t ...

EPFL2019

Scanning near-field optical microscopy with new probes and feedback modes

Anton Smirnov

Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (SNOM) technique enables to overcome Abbe diffraction limit of far-field optics as well as to obtain simultaneously optical and topographical images. While the optical resolution of the method is limited by the apertu ...

EPFL2019

Experimental Generation and Time Multiplexing of Data-Carrying Nyquist Sinc Shaped Channels from a Single Microresonator-based Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Yiming Cao, Fatemeh Alishahi

We experimentally achieve optical time multiplexing of multiple Nyquist channels. A single microresonator Kerr comb allows the generation of multiple Nyquist sinc shaped pulse trains. TDM of pulse trains are obtained through wavelength conversion inside a ...

IEEE2019

First Near-Ultraviolet- and Blue-Enhanced Backside-Illuminated Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Based on Standard SOI CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Myung Jae Lee

We present the world's first backside-illuminated (BSI) single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) based on standard silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. This SPAD achieves a good dark count rate (DCR) after backs ...

2019

Ultrafast molecular photophysics in the deep-ultraviolet

Majed Chergui

In the landscape of ultrafast spectroscopic tools, the deep- and near-ultraviolet ranges (200–400 nm) have lagged behind due to the lack of tunability of both the pump and the probe pulses in this range. With the advent of novel nonlinear optical methods, ...

2019