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High density lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Zelin Tan, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

Photonic integrated circuits have the potential to pervade into multiple applications traditionally limited to bulk optics. Of particular interest for new applications are ferroelectrics such as Lithium Niobate, which exhibit a large Pockels effect, but ar ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Investigating Novel Optical Fibres for More Advanced Distributed Optical Fibre Sensing

Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal

The ever-growing need for distributed optical fibre sensors (DOFS) in numerous fields and applications demands continuous research towards the advancement of the existing sensing systems. The convenience in the field of DOFS lies in the several degrees of ...

EPFL2022

Sensitivity and spectral control of network lasers

Alexis Arnaudon, Dinika Saxena

Recently, random lasing in complex networks has shown efficient lasing over more than 50 localised modes, promoted by multiple scattering over the underlying graph. If controlled, these network lasers can lead to fast-switching multifunctional light source ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Dual chirped microcomb based parallel ranging at megapixel-line rates

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

Photonic integrated systems can be harnessed for fast and efficient optical telecommunication and metrology technologies. Here the authors develop a dual-soliton microcomb technique for massively parallel coherent laser ranging that requires only a single ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Time-continuous Travelling-Wave Optical Parametric Amplification in a Photonic Circuit

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

We demonstrate a traveling wave parametric amplifier in a photonic Si3N4 integrated spiral waveguide of 2.0 m length with footprint 3x5 mm. We achieve net gain of 7 dB on-chip and 2 dB fiberto-fiber in the optical C-band. (C) 2022 The Author(s) ...

IEEE2022

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, 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

A photonic integrated circuit-based erbium-doped amplifier

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk, Jijun He, Xinru Ji, Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic integrated circuits but their use remains impractical as a result of insuf ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Linear Electro-optic Effect in Silicon Nitride Waveguides Enabled by Electric-Field Poling

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich

Stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4) is one of the most mature integrated photonic platforms for linear and nonlinear optical applications on-chip. However, because it is a centrosymmetric material, second-order nonlinear processes are inherently not ava ...

2022

Ultrafast dynamic switching of optical response based on nonlinear hyperbolic metamaterial platform

Qian Li, Jiaye Wu

The pursuit of high-speed and on-chip optical communication systems has promoted extensive exploration of all-optical control of light-matter interactions via nonlinear optical processes. Here, we have numerically investigated the ultrafast dynamic switchi ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Nanopore Generation in Biodegradable Silk/Magnetic Nanoparticle Membranes by an External Magnetic Field for Implantable Drug Delivery

Giovanni Boero, Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

Implantable devices for localized and controlled drug release are important, e.g., for therapies of cancer and chronic pain. However, most of the existing active implants are limited by the usage of nonbiodegradable materials; thus, surgery is needed to ex ...

2022

Silicon photonic microelectromechanical systems add-drop ring resonator in a foundry process

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Photonic add-drop filters are crucial components for the implementation of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) in fiber-optic communication systems. The recent progress in photonic integration has shown the potential to integrate photonic add-drop filte ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2022

Compact, spatial-mode-interaction-free, ultralow-loss, nonlinear photonic integrated circuits

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

Multi-mode waveguides are ubiquitously used in integrated photonics. Although interaction among different spatial waveguide eigenmodes can induce novel nonlinear phenomena, spatial mode interaction is typically undesired. Adiabatic bends, such as Euler ben ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022