Publications related to Build up of off-diagonal long-range order in microcavity exciton-polaritons across the parametric threshold

Terahertz waveform synthesis in integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform

Jérôme Faist, Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Francesca Fabiana Settembrini

Bridging the "terahertz gap" relies upon synthesizing arbitrary waveforms in the terahertz domain enabling applications that require both narrow band sources for sensing and few-cycle drives for classical and quantum objects. However, realization of custom ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Massively parallel coherent laser ranging using a soliton microcomb

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

Coherent ranging, also known as frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser-based light detection and ranging (lidar)(1) is used for long-range three-dimensional distance and velocimetry in autonomous driving(2,3). FMCW lidar maps distance to frequenc ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Generation of strong-field spectrally tunable terahertz pulses

Christoph Peter Hauri

The ideal laser source for nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy offers large versatility delivering both ultra-intense broadband single-cycle pulses and user-selectable multi-cycle pulses at narrow linewidths. Here we show a highly versatile terahertz laser pl ...

2020

An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics

Nicolas Volet, Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

Optical-frequency synthesizers, which generate frequency-stable light from a single microwave-frequency reference, are revolutionizing ultrafast science and metrology, but their size, power requirement and cost need to be reduced if they are to be more wid ...

2018

Enabling proximity mask-aligner lithography with a 193nm CW light source

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Raoul Kirner, Andreas Vetter

We introduce a novel industrial grade 193nm continuous-wave laser light source for proximity mask-aligner lithography. A diode seed laser in master-oscillator power-ampliﬁcation conﬁguraton is frequency-quadrupled using lithiumtriborate and potassium-ﬂuoro ...

2018

Mask-aligner Talbot lithography using a 193 nm CW light source

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Raoul Kirner, Andreas Vetter

We present and discuss Talbot mask-aligner lithography, relying on a continuous wave laser emitting at 193nm for the illumination. In this source, a diode laser at 772nm is amplified by a tapered amplifier in master-oscillator power-amplifier configuration ...

2018

Direct Comparison of Second Harmonic Generation and Two-Photon Photoluminescence from Single Connected Gold Nanodimers

Olivier Martin, Jérémy Butet

In this article we compare the two-photon photoluminescence and second harmonic generation from single connected gold nanodimers. Analyzing the particle size-dependent nonlinear optical spectra and performing excitation polarization resolved measurements u ...

American Chemical Society2016

Measurement of the penetration depth and coherence length of MgB2 in all directions using transmission electron microscopy

Janusz Andrzej Karpinski

We demonstrate that images of flux vortices in a superconductor taken with a transmission electron microscope can be used to measure the penetration depth and coherence length in all directions at the same temperature and magnetic field. This is particular ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Observation of correlated spin-orbit order in a strongly anisotropic quantum wire system

Stefan Peter Muff, Jan Hugo Dil

Quantum wires with spin-orbit coupling provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously control the coupling strength and the screened Coulomb interactions where new exotic phases of matter can be explored. Here we report on the observation of an exotic spin ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Quantitative phase noise in a two-color low coherence Digital Holographic Microscope

Frédéric Montfort, Christian Depeursinge, Christophe Moser, Zahra Monemhaghdoust

In digital holographic microscopy (DHM), the long coherence length of laser light causes parasitic interferences due to multiple reflections in and by optical components in the optical path of the microscope and thus degrades the image quality. The parasit ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

156 µm 1 watt single frequency semiconductor disk laser

Elyahou Kapon, Alexei Sirbu, Alexandru Mereuta

A single frequency wafer-fused semiconductor disk laser at 1.56 mu m with 1 watt of output power and a coherence length over 5 km in fiber is demonstrated. The result represents the highest output power reported for a narrow-line semiconductor disk laser o ...

Optical Society of America2013

Coherence and Topological Defects in Exciton-Polariton Condensates

Francesco Manni

Exciton-polaritons are hybrid quasi-particles, eigenstates of the strong coupling regime between light and matter. Their Bose-Einstein condensation has been recently demonstrated, opening the way to several fundamental investigations on the associated phen ...

EPFL2013

Analysis and Control of Optical Modes in VCSELs and VCSEL-Arrays

Elodie Lamothe

In this thesis, we studied the modal structure and the polarization of the optical field emitted by vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) emitting in the short- and long-wavelength domains (0.9-1.3μm). Our study concerns two types of components: ...

EPFL2013

On Micro Optical Elements for Efficient Light Diffusion

Roland Andreas Bitterli

Efficient light management is one of the key issues in modern energy conversion systems, be it to collect optical power or to redistribute light generated by high power light emitters. This thesis touches mainly on the subject of efficient light redistribu ...

EPFL2013

Full field vertical scanning in short coherence digital holographic microscope

Frédéric Montfort, Etienne Cuche, Christian Depeursinge, Christophe Moser

In Digital holography Microscopes (DHM) implemented in the so-called "off axis" configuration, the object and reference wave fronts are not co-planar but form an angle of a few degrees. This results into two main drawbacks. First, the contrast of the inter ...

Optical Soc Amer2013

Hyperbolic spin vortices and textures in exciton-polariton condensates

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Francesco Manni

From cosmology to the microscopic scales of the quantum world, the study of topological excitations is essential for the understanding of phase conformation and phase transitions. Quantum fluids are convenient systems to investigate topological entities be ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Coherence properties of exciton polariton OPO condensates in one and two dimensions

We give an overview of the coherence properties of exciton-polariton condensates generated by optical parametric scattering. Different aspects of the first-order coherence (g((1))) have been investigated. The spatial coherence extension of a two-dimensiona ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Contrast Enhancement in Optical Coherence Microscopy

Christophe Pache

Optical Coherence Microscopy (OCM) is a three-dimensional imaging technique that provides cross-sectional views of the subsurface microstructure of biological tissue, with a high axial and lateral resolution. In OCM, a low time coherence light source is sp ...

EPFL2012

Penrose-Onsager Criterion Validation in a One-Dimensional Polariton Condensate

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, Francesco Manni

We perform quantum tomography on one-dimensional polariton condensates, spontaneously occurring in linear disorder valleys in a CdTe planar microcavity sample. By the use of optical interferometric techniques, we determine the first-order coherence functio ...

Amer Physical Soc2012

Phase-Resolved Imaging of Exciton Polaritons

Gaël Nardin

In this PhD thesis, new imaging techniques have been developed in order to explore the physics of semiconductor microcavities. In these structures, composite bosons called exciton polaritons are the result of strong coupling between the cavity mode and qua ...

EPFL2011