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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

Programmable frequency-bin quantum states in a nano-engineered silicon device

Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi

Frequency-bin qubits get the best of time-bin and dual-rail encodings, but require external modulators and pulse shapers to build arbitrary states. Here, instead, the authors work directly on-chip by controlling the interference of biphoton amplitudes gene ...

Nature Portfolio2023

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

Resonators with tailored optical path by cascaded-mode conversions

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Optical resonators enable the generation, manipulation, and storage of electromagnetic waves. The physics underlying their operation is determined by the interference of electromagnetic waves, giving rise to the resonance spectrum. This mechanism causes th ...

Nature Portfolio2023

All-optical switching in epsilon-near-zero asymmetric directional coupler

Jiaye Wu

We propose an all-optical switch based on an asymmetric directional coupler structure with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) layer. The nonlinear optical properties the of ENZ layer are analyzed by hot-electron dynamics process, and the all-optical operating perform ...

Nature Portfolio2022

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

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

Optical arrangement

Yves Bellouard, Sargis Hakobyan

In an optical arrangement (A) for use in an optical circuit, wherein the optical arrangement (A) comprises a substrate plate (1), wherein the substrate plate (1) is configured to receive a multitude of optical components (12.2, 12.5), the substrate plate ( ...

2021

Design and Fabrication of Stretchable Photonic Fibers

Nicola Bartolomei

Optical fibers have reshaped the technological landscape, from optical networks and high-speed data communication to in situ imaging and non-invasive surgery methods. The revolution allowed by these fibers has been made possible by its fabrication method, ...

EPFL2021

Electrically driven source of time-energy entangled photons based on a self-pumped silicon microring resonator

Matteo Galli, Micol Previde Massara

Time-energy entangled photon pairs are fundamental resources for quantum communication protocols since they are robust against environmental fluctuations in optical fiber networks. Pair sources based on spontaneous four-wave mixing in silicon microring res ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Open loop control theory algorithms for high-speed 3D MEMS optical switches

Matthias Imboden

There is a world-wide push to create the next-generation all-optical transmission and switching technologies for exascale data centers. In this paper we focus on the switching fabrics. Many different types of 2D architectures are being explored including M ...

2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Miles Henry Anderson, Tianyi Liu

High-speed actuation of laser frequency(1)is critical in applications using lasers and frequency combs(2,3), and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer among optical carriers. For example, high-bandwidth feedbac ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Add-Drop Multiplexing Architecture for Nyquist OTDM Signals Based on a Single Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Simon Julien Fabbri

We propose and compare add-drop multiplexing schemes for Nyquist OTDM signals based on 1 x2 or 2 x2 Mach-Zehnder modulator. Bright and dark sinc pulse carver simultaneously provided by the modulator fulfil drop, notch and add functions. ...

IEEE2019

III-Nitride Semiconductor Photonic Nanocavities on Silicon

Ian Michael Rousseau

Optical nanocavities enhance light-matter interaction due to their high quality factors (Q) and small modal volumes (V). The control of light-matter interaction lies at the heart of potential applications for integrated optical circuits, including optical ...

EPFL2018

Architecture and Experimental Validation of a Low-Latency Phasor Data Concentrator

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati

The paper presents the design principles of a Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) that implements both the absolute and relative time data pushing logics together with a third one that aims at minimizing the latency introduced by the PDC without increasing the ...

2018

Consistent Tomography over Diffusion Networks under the Low-Observability Regime

Ali H. Sayed, Augusto José Rabelo Almeida Santos

This work considers a diffusion network responding to streaming data, and studies the problem of identifying the topology of a subnetwork of observable agents by tracking their output measurements. Topology inference from indirect and/or incomplete dataset ...

IEEE2018

Unidirectional isolator-free 2 micron fiber lasers

Svyatoslav Kharitonov

This thesis presents results of a research on unidirectional isolator-free cavity lasers, exploiting thulium-doped fiber (TDF) as amplification medium and operating in \unit[2]{\mu m} wavelength range. For fibre ring resonator, an optical isolator should b ...

EPFL2017

Resilient Synchrophasor Networks for the Real-Time Monitoring, Protection and Control of Power Grids : from Theory to Validation

Marco Pignati

Operational practices of both power transmission and distribution grids are impacted by the increasing connection of renewable energy resources, electric vehicles and energy storage systems. A timely and accurate knowledge of the system state, coupled with ...

EPFL2017

Scalable Row/Column Addressing of Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack

In this letter, we demonstrate a scalable addressing scheme for silicon photonic MEMS switches. For a crossbar architecture switch fabric of dimension N x N, the row/column addressing scales with 2 . N electrodes, much reduced from the N-2 electrodes in in ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Highly Scalable Digital Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack

Optical circuit switches with fast switching times can provide rapidly reconfigurable bandwidth in data center networks. Silicon photonic switches are attractive candidates with their fast response times and CMOS process compatibility. In this paper, we re ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Large-scale broadband digital silicon photonic switches with vertical adiabatic couplers

Niels Quack

Large-scale photonic switches are essential devices for energy-and cost-efficient optical communication networks in cloud and data-intensive computing. Silicon photonics is an attractive platform for high-density photonic integrated circuits with low manuf ...

Optical Soc Amer2016