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From Movement Primitives to Distance Fields to Dynamical Systems

Developing autonomous robots capable of learning complex motions from demonstrations remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. On the one hand, movement primitives (MP) provide a compact and modular representation of continuous trajectories. On the othe ...

2025

Soliton gas: Theory, numerics, and experiments

Andrey Gelash

The concept of soliton gas was introduced in 1971 by Zakharov as an infinite collection of weakly interacting solitons in the framework of Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. In this theoretical construction of a diluted (rarefied) soliton gas, solitons with ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

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

Electric-field-induced second-order nonlinear processes in stoichiometric silicon nitride

Boris Zabelich

Nonlinear optical frequency conversion is one of the driving research areas in photonics. Its quasi instantaneous response and the promise of low power consumption in integrated structures could cover the demand for fast signal processing with minimal ener ...

EPFL2024

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

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

Stability: a search for structure

Wouter Jongeneel

In this thesis we study stability from several viewpoints. After covering the practical importance, the rich history and the ever-growing list of manifestations of stability, we study the following. (i) (Statistical identification of stable dynamical syste ...

EPFL2024

Antiferromagnetic droplet soliton driven by spin current

Mohammad Hamdi

We demonstrate that a spin current flowing through a nanocontact into a uniaxial antiferromagnet with first- and second-order anisotropy can excite a self-localized dynamic magnetic soliton, known as a spin-wave droplet in ferromagnets. The droplet nucleat ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2024

Dissipative Kerr soliton generation at 2μm in a silicon nitride microresonator

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Ozan Yakar, Anton Stroganov, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

Chip -scale optical frequency combs enable the generation of highly -coherent pulsed light at gigahertz-level repetition rates, with potential technological impact ranging from telecommunications to sensing and spectroscopy. In combination with techniques ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

A machine learning architecture for including wave breaking in envelope-type wave models

Debbie Eeltink

Wave breaking is a complex physical process about which open questions remain. For some applications, it is critical to include breaking effects in phase-resolved envelope-based wave models such as the non-linear Schr & ouml;dinger. A promising approach is ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

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

Dissipative Solitons and Switching Waves in Dispersion-Modulated Kerr Cavities

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Miles Henry Anderson, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alisa Davydova

We theoretically and experimentally investigate the formation of dissipative coherent structures in Kerr nonlinear optical microresonators, whose spectrum encompasses an integrated dispersion that exceeds the cavity free-spectral range. We are able to acce ...

American Physical Society2023

Generalised Kerr Microcomb Physics in Synchronously Driven Systems

Miles Henry Anderson

In this thesis, the generation of microcombs under complex, non-trivial, and/or higher-order cavity conditions is explored, both in theory & simulation, and in practical experimentation. Pulse-driving of microresonators is investigated for the generation ...

EPFL2023

Hybrid lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride platform for mid-IR supercontinuum generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev

Integrated optics has shown itself very convenient for exploiting nonlinear processes as it results in high confinement factor, freedom of dispersion engineering and compactness. However, the choice of materials is crucial for the development of nonlinear ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2023

Non-contact robotic manipulation of floating objects: exploiting emergent limit cycles

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Nana Obayashi

The study of non-contact manipulation in water, and the ability to robotically control floating objects has gained recent attention due to wide-ranging potential applications, including the analysis of plastic pollution in the oceans and the optimization o ...

Frontiers Media Sa2023

Mean flow modeling in high-order nonlinear Schrodinger equations

Debbie Eeltink

The evaluation and consideration of the mean flow in wave evolution equations are necessary for the accurate prediction of fluid particle trajectories under wave groups, with relevant implications in several domains, from the transport of pollutants in the ...

2023

Chaotic microcomb-based parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anton Lukashchuk, Aleksandr Tusnin

The intrinsic random amplitude and phase modulation of 40 distinct lines of a microresonator frequency comb operated in the modulation instability regime are used to realize massively parallel random-modulation continuous-wave light detection and ranging, ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

Tunable pump compression and fast modulation for pulsed THz generation

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino, Yazan Lampert Almahmoud, Shima Rajabali

We demonstrate tunable dispersion compensation of femtosecond pulses at telecom wavelengths for broadband Terahertz generation in 7.5-meter fiber link using a Silicon prism pair. The prism pair enhances the amplitude of the THz E-field in InGaAs photocondu ...

IEEE2023

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