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320 GHz photonic-electronic analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) exploiting Kerr soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger

Kerr soliton microcombs have the potential to disrupt a variety of applications such as ultra-high-speed optical communications, ultra-fast distance measurements, massively parallel light detection and ranging (LiDAR) or high-resolution optical spectroscop ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Superconducting microwave oscillators as detectors for ESR spectroscopy

Roberto Russo

Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is a powerful analytical technique broadly used to study materials characterized by unpaired electrons. This technique is applied in chemistry, physics, biology, and material science. Since 2008, Prof. Boero grou ...

EPFL2025

C- and L-band tunable integrated Erbium lasers via scalable manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Andrey Voloshin, Grigorii Likhachev, Yang Liu, Simone Bianconi, Xuan Yang

We demonstrate an integrated Erbium-based tunable laser using wafer-scale fabrication and ion implantation of silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits. We achieve single-frequency lasing tunable from 1530 nm to 1621 nm covering nearly the entire optica ...

Optica Publishing Group2025

Hybrid silicon photonics for terahertz applications

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

This talk will highlight opportunities for terahertz science and technology from nonlinear integrated photonic circuits by exploring waveguides, resonators and terahertz antennas. Their present and future applications in metrology, emission and waveform co ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2024

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

Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization

Arman Ayan

Photonics integrated circuits are a promising solution for the growing demands of data transmission and future system-on-chip technologies. Within this context, nonlinear optical interactions offer unique opportunities for all-optical processing, sampling, ...

EPFL2024

Single-Mode Laser in the Telecom Range by Deterministic Amplification of the Topological Interface Mode

Kirsten Emilie Moselund

Photonic integrated circuits are paving the way for novel on-chip functionalities with diverse applications in communication, computing, and beyond. The integration of on-chip light sources, especially single-mode lasers, is crucial for advancing those pho ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Silicon nitride electric-field poled microresonator modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich, Anton Stroganov, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

Stoichiometric silicon nitride is a highly regarded platform for its favorable attributes, such as low propagation loss and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, making it a prominent choice for various linear and nonlinear ...

2024

Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li, Terence Albert Emile Blésin, Chengli Wang, Junyin Zhang, Xi Wang, Chen Yang, Wil Kao, Alisa Davydova

Electro-optical photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) have demonstrated the vast capabilities of materials with a high Pockels coefficient1,2. They enable linear and high-speed modulators operating at complementary metal–oxi ...

2024

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

Development of Electrical and Optical Packaging for Silicon Photonic MEMS

Niels Quack

We demonstrate a packaging approach to integrate electrical and optical connections in silicon photonic MEMS, utilizing a custom-designed silicon interposer for routing over 118 electrical connections and a 72 channel fiber array to couple to on-chip fiber ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

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

All-Dielectric Nanophotonic via Glass Fluid Instabilities

Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau

In this thesis work, we propose to exploit an innovative micro/nano-fabrication process, based on controlled fluid instabilities of a thin viscous film of chalcogenide glass. Amorphous selenium and arsenic triselenide were used in this thesis work, and com ...

EPFL2024

Terahertz emission from diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers

László Forró, Ferenc Simon

Coherent light sources emitting in the terahertz range are highly sought after for fundamental research and applications. Terahertz lasers rely on achieving population inversion. We demonstrate the generation of terahertz radiation using nitrogen-vacancy c ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2024

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

Chip-Scale Watt-Range Terahertz Generation Based on Fast Transition in Nanoplasma Switches

Mohammad Rezaei, Elison de Nazareth Matioli

Despite recent advancements in photonics and electronics, there remains a lack of efficient, compact, high-power sources in the terahertz spectrum (0.3-10 THz). Recent research has revealed that nanoplasma (NP) switches can exhibit extremely fast transitio ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

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

Advanced Silicon and SWIR Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes: Design, Simulation, and Characterization

Ekin Kizilkan

Low-level light detection with high spatial and timing accuracy is a growing area of interest by virtue of applications such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), biomedical imaging, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and quantum applications. Single-phot ...

EPFL2024

Enabling Wide Bandwidth in Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Slot Antennas by Using Low-Index Metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Amir Jafargholi

This paper presents a solution to overcome the inherently limited bandwidth of substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) slot antennas. It is analytically shown that by decreasing the permittivity of a dielectric loaded slot antenna, the resulting bandwidth inc ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024