Publications related to Optical pumping in a microfabricated Rb vapor cell using a microfabricated Rb discharge light source

Related publications (21)

Electrically pumped shot-noise limited class A VECSEL at telecom wavelength

Elyahou Kapon, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman

Class A shot-noise limited operation is achieved in an electrically pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL), opening the way for integration of such peculiar noiseless laser oscillation in applications where low power consumption an ...

2021

Ultrafast Momentum-Resolved Free-Electron Probing of Optically Pumped Plasmon Thermal Dynamics

Fabrizio Carbone

Current advances in ultrafast electron microscopy make it possible to combine optical pumping of a nanostructure and electron beam probing with sub-Angstrom and femtosecond spatiotemporal resolution. We present a theory predicting that this technique can r ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

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

Effective quality factor tuning mechanisms in micromechanical resonators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

Quality factor (Q) is an important property of micro- and nano-electromechanical (MEM/NEM) resonators that underlie timing references, frequency sources, atomic force microscopes, gyroscopes, and mass sensors. Various methods have been utilized to tune the ...

2018

Effects of erbium-doped fiber amplifier induced pump noise on soliton Kerr frequency combs for 64-quadrature amplitude modulation transmission

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

We experimentally investigate the effects of erbium-doped fiber amplifier induced pump noise on soliton Kerr frequency combs for 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) transmission. We find that the optical carrier-to-noise ratios (OCNRs) of the comb lin ...

2018

Ramifications of optical pumping on the interpretation of time-resolved photoemission experiments on graphene

Marco Grioni, Alberto Crepaldi, Jens Christian Johannsen

In pump-probe time and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TR-ARPES) experiments the presence of the pump pulse adds a new level of complexity to the photoemission process in comparison to conventional ARPES. This is evidenced by pump-induced vacuum ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Nuclear polarization by optical pumping in InP:Fe above liquid nitrogen temperature

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Murari Soundararajan, Dongyoung Yoon

Hyperpolarized nuclear spins are observed in optically pumped iron-doped InP from 70 K to 140 K. P-31 NMR was carried out at 9.28 T (159.8 MHz) during optical excitation with circularly polarized light, using a laser diode (lambda-830 nm) as a source. The ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2015

GaN-based photonic crystal cavities on silicon for visible and near infrared applications

Noelia Vico Triviño

Photonic crystal (PhC) cavities combine ultra-high quality (Q) factors with small mode volumes, resulting in an enhancement of the light-matter interaction at the nanoscale, which, beyond fundamental studies is advantageous for countless applications in ph ...

EPFL2015

Electrical detection of spin hyperpolarization in InP

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Christian Caspers

The electrical detection of surface spin polarization in Indium Phosphide (InP) is demonstrated. Using a planar four-terminal architecture on top of semi-insulating Fe: InP (001) wafers, optical orientation is separated from electrical detection. Spin filt ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Interaction between meta-materials and shallow donors in bulk GaN at THz frequency

Nicolas Grandjean, Etienne François Olivier Giraud

We report the coupling and interaction between shallow donors and microcavities in bulk GaN at THz frequencies. At 4K, the shallow donors lead to an absorption at 23.5 meV (5.7 THz) under optical pumping above the bandgap of GaN. The microcavities are base ...

Optical Soc Amer2014

Developing luminescent Brownian probes for near-field investigations of the intracellular environment

Flavio Maurizio Mor

Life sciences have a constantly growing need for novel methodological approaches suitable to investigate the intracellular environment with increased temporal and spatial resolutions. Recently, optical near-field probes, such as laser-irradiated pointed me ...

EPFL2013

LTCC integrated miniature Rb discharge lamp module for stable optical pumping in miniature atomic clocks and magnetometers

Herbert Shea, Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Vinu Lalgudi Venkatraman, Fabrizio Vecchio

We report here on an integrated mini-lamp module (15x26x4 mm3) with a microfabricated rf-powered Rb dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) lamp (10x10x3 mm3) positioned on top of a 0.6 mm thick (thickness adjustable) 4-layer LTCC (Low Temperature Co-fired Cera ...

IEEE2012

Brillouin Echoes for Advanced Distributed Sensing in Optical Fibres

Brillouin scattering is particularly efficient and attractive for the implementation of strain and temperature distributed sensing in optical fibres. Recently a trend has been observed that modern advanced applications require a substantial step towards be ...

EPFL2011

Optical fiber-based setup for in vivo measurement of the delayed fluorescence lifetime of oxygen sensors

Georges Wagnières, Hubert van den Bergh

A new optical-fiber-based spectrofluorometer for in vivo or in vitro detection of delayed fluorescence is presented and characterized. This compact setup is designed so that it can be readily adapted for future clinical use. Optical excitation is done with ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2011

Dual-pump push-pull polarization control using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) amplification of probe signals is highly polarization dependent. Maximum and minimum gain values are associated with a pair of orthogonal states of polarization (SOP), which are related to the pump SOP. Since the maxim ...

Optical Society of America2011

“Slow Light” in stimulated Brillouin scattering: on the influence of the spectral width of pump radiation on the group index: Comment

Luc Thévenaz

In a recent paper by Kovalev et al [Optics Express 17, 17317 (2009)] the coupled equations describing stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) were solved in the Fourier domain. The main conclusion driven by the authors was that SBS pump spectral broadening w ...

Optical Society of America2010

Light control and microcavity lasers based on quantum wires integrated in photonic-crystal cavities

Kirill Atlasov

Novel light-emitting devices and micro-optical-circuit elements will rely upon understanding and control of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. Recent advances in nanofabrication and micro-processing make it possible to develop integrable solid-stat ...

EPFL2009

Distributed sensing using polarization sensitive optical low-coherence reflectometry and fiber gratings

Dragan Coric

Optical low coherence reflectometry (OLCR) is non-destructive interferometric technique that allows measuring amplitude and phase of the light reflected from the device under test. OLCR is a powerful tool for the characterization of the various optical dev ...

EPFL2007

Current status of AlInN layers lattice-matched to GaN for photonics and electronics

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Eric Feltin, Raphaël Butté, Sylvain Nicolay, Marcel Py, Gabriel Christmann, Julien Dorsaz, Antonino Francesco Castiglia

We report on the current properties of Al1-x InxN (x approximate to 0.18) layers lattice- matched ( LM) to GaN and their specific use to realize nearly strain- free structures for photonic and electronic applications. Following a literature survey of the g ...

2007

Cristal composite SLAB pompé latéralement par diodes laser

Simon Benjamin

This work presents the development of an original concept of a side pumped diode pumped crystal laser for the generation of a high power near diffraction limited beam for material processing applications such as cutting, marking and drilling. An approach b ...

EPFL2003