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Supercontinuum

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Ultrafast-nonlinear ultraviolet pulse modulation in an AlInGaN polariton waveguide operating up to room temperature

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Joachim Armand Simonne Ciers, Davide Maria Di Paola

Ultrafast nonlinear photonics enables a host of applications in advanced on-chip spectroscopy and information processing. These rely on a strong intensity dependent (nonlinear) refractive index capable of modulating optical pulses on sub-picosecond timesca ...

Nature Research2021

Supercontinuum generation in silicon nitride (Si_3N_4) waveguides for middle infrared spectroscopy

Eirini Tagkoudi

The middle-infrared (mid-IR) spectral range hosts the most intense roto-vibrational absorption lines of many important molecules. Particularly, mid-IR spectroscopy constitutes a unique tool for identifying and quantifying molecular species through their mi ...

EPFL2021

Survival of rotational alignment in H-2 scattering from Si(100)

Christopher Scott Reilly

We report a state-prepared, state-resolved study of rotational scattering of a diatomic molecule from a solid surface. Specifically, H-2 molecules with 80 meV kinetic energy are rotationally aligned in the j = 3 rotational state via stimulated Raman pumpin ...

AIP Publishing2021

Dynamics of soliton self-injection locking in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Andrey Voloshin

Soliton microcombs constitute chip-scale optical frequency combs, and have the potential to impact a myriad of applications from frequency synthesis and telecommunications to astronomy. The demonstration of soliton formation via self-injection locking of t ...

Nature Research2021

Broadband visible two-dimensional spectroscopy of molecular dyes

Majed Chergui, Andre Al Haddad, Rebecca Ann Ingle, Lars-Hendrik Mewes

Two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy is a promising technique to study ultrafast molecular dynamics. Similar to transient absorption spectroscopy, a more complete picture of the dynamics requires broadband laser pulses to observe transient change ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Dynamics and Applications of Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Maxim Karpov

Optical frequency combs are optical sources, which spectrum consists of a series of equally spaced narrowband frequencies. They made an outstanding leap forward in the accuracy of optical frequency metrology and became an attractive tool for numerous appli ...

EPFL2020

Parallel gas spectroscopy using mid-infrared supercontinuum from a single Si3N4 waveguide

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Fan Yang, Eirini Tagkoudi

Efficient third-order nonlinear optical processes have been successfully integrated on silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguides. In particular, owing to Si3N4 wide transparency window spanning from the visible to the middle-infrared (mid-IR), efficient mid-IR di ...

2020

Imaging plasma formation in isolated nanoparticles with ultrafast resonant scattering

Christoph Bostedt

We have recorded the diffraction patterns from individual xenon clusters irradiated with intense extreme ultraviolet pulses to investigate the influence of light-induced electronic changes on the scattering response. The clusters were irradiated with short ...

2020

Mid infrared gas spectroscopy using efficient fiber laser driven photonic chip-based supercontinuum

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Hairun Guo, Davide Grassani, Fan Yang, Eirini Tagkoudi

Directly accessing the middle infrared, the molecular functional group spectral region, via supercontinuum generation processes based on turn-key fiber lasers offers the undeniable advantage of simplicity and robustness. Recently, the assessment of the coh ...

Nature Research2019

Stacking transition in rhombohedral graphite

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Gabriele Berruto

Few-layer graphene (FLG) has recently been intensively investigated for its variable electronic properties, which are defined by a local atomic arrangement. While the most natural arrangement of layers in FLG is ABA (Bernal) stacking, a metastable ABC (rho ...

HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS2019

Experimental station Bernina at SwissFEL: condensed matter physics on femtosecond time scales investigated by X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic methods

Christoph Peter Hauri, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Jochen Rittmann

The Bernina instrument at the SwissFEL Aramis hard X-ray free-electron laser is designed for studying ultrafast phenomena in condensed matter and material science. Ultrashort pulses from an optical laser system covering a large wavelength range can be used ...

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)2019

Thermally stable access to microresonator solitons via slow pump modulation

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Victor Brasch, Tobias Herr

Temporal dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in microresonators provide ultra-short optical pulses and low-noise frequency combs with gigahertz to terahertz repetition rates. Owing to their unique properties, they have found application in fields, including o ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

Dynamics of nanoscale systems probed by time-resolved STM-induced luminescence

Anna Maria Roslawska

The efficiency and peculiarities of processes such as surface adsorption or electron-to-photon energy conversion in organic and inorganic structures are determined by the dynamics at the scale of individual molecules, atoms and charges. The timescales of s ...

EPFL2019

Scattering HCl Molecules from Au(111) and Ag(111) Surfaces

Jan Daniel Geweke

In this thesis, I present an experimental molecular beam surface scattering study of dynamical processes involved when HCl molecules are scattered from Au(111) and Ag(111) surfaces. I investigated vibrational excitation, translational inelasticity and diss ...

EPFL2019

Mid-infrared frequency comb via coherent dispersive wave generation in silicon nitride nanophotonic waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng, Davide Grassani, Adrien Billat

Mid-infrared optical frequency combs are of significant interest for molecular spectroscopy due to the large absorption of molecular vibrational modes on the one hand, and the ability to implement superior comb-based spectroscopic modalities with increased ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Raman Self-Frequency Shift of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in an Optical Microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Arne Kordts, Victor Brasch, Michail Zervas, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

We experimentally observed the Raman-induced self-frequency shift of high-intensity dissipative Kerr solitons in high-Q silicon nitride microresonators. The Raman redshift is linearly dependent on the pump-frequency-detuning, associated with the tunability ...

Ieee2016

Harmonium: A pulse preserving source of monochromatic extreme ultraviolet (30–110 eV) radiation for ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of liquids

Hua Zhang, Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Jakob Grilj, Lars-Hendrik Mewes

A tuneable repetition rate extreme ultraviolet source (Harmonium) for time resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of liquids is presented. High harmonic generation produces 30-110 eV photons, with fluxes ranging from similar to 2 x 10(11) photons/s at 36 eV t ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Probing the coupling between a doublon excitation and the charge-density wave in TaS2 by ultrafast optical spectroscopy

Helmuth Berger, Arnaud Magrez, Fabrizio Carbone, Edoardo Baldini, Ahmad Odeh, Andreas Helmut Christian Mann

Recently, the switching between the different charge-ordered phases of 1T-TaS2 has been probed by ultrafast techniques, revealing unexpected phenomena such as "hidden" metastable states and peculiar photoexcited charge patterns. Here, we apply broadband pu ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Water-Mediated Ion Pairing: Occurrence and Relevance

Sylvie Roke

We present an overview of the studies of ion pairing in aqueous media of the past decade. In these studies, interactions between ions, and between ions and water, are investigated with relatively novel approaches, including dielectric relaxation spectrosco ...

American Chemical Society2016

Set-up for broadband Fourier-transform multidimensional electronic spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Gerald Auböck, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Adrien Alexis Paul Chauvet, Andre Al Haddad

We present a compact passively phase-stabilized ultra-broadband 2D Fourier transform setup. A gas (argon)-filled hollow core fiber pumped by an amplified Ti:Al2O3 laser is used as a light source providing spectral range spanning from 420 to 900 nm. Sub-10- ...

Optical Society of America2015