Publications de Camille Sophie Brès

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

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

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

Arbitrarily high time bandwidth performance in a nonreciprocal optical resonator with broken time invariance

Camille Sophie Brès, Hatice Altug, Davide Grassani, Simon Julien Fabbri, Kosmas Tsakmakidis, Ivan Cardea

Most present-day resonant systems, throughout physics and engineering, are characterized by a strict time-reversal symmetry between the rates of energy coupled in and out of the system, which leads to a trade-off between how long a wave can be stored in th ...

Nature Research2020

A chip-scale second-harmonic source via self-injection-locked all-optical poling

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

Second-harmonic generation allows for coherently bridging distant regions of the optical spectrum, with applications ranging from laser technology to self-referencing of frequency combs. However, accessing the nonlinear response of a medium typically requi ...

2023

Generalized Coherent Photogalvanic Effect in Coherently Seeded Waveguides

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar

The coherent photogalvanic effect leads to the generation of a current under the absorption interference of coherent beams and allows for the inscription of space-charge gratings leading to a second-order susceptibility (chi((2))). The inscribed grating au ...

2022

Intracavity Epsilon-Near-Zero Dual-Range Frequency Switch

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Jiaye Wu, Ji Zhou

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nanophotonic devices with zero permittivity are known to exhibit adiabatic frequency translation via temporal refraction under extracavity excitation by intense light sources, which are however hard to integrate on-chip owing to a h ...

2024

Supercontinuum in integrated photonics: generation, applications, challenges, and perspectives

Camille Sophie Brès

Frequency conversion in nonlinear materials is an extremely useful solution to the generation of new optical frequencies. Often, it is the only viable solution to realize light sources highly relevant for applications in science and industry. In particular ...

2023

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

Highly tunable second-harmonic generation in all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Anton Stroganov

The availability of nonlinear parametric processes, such as frequency conversion in photonic integrated circuits is essential. In this contribution, we demonstrate a highly tunable second-harmonic generation in a fully complementary metal–oxide–semiconduct ...

2020

Spectral self-imaging of optical orbital angular momentum modes

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu

The Talbot self-imaging effect is mostly present in the forms of space or time, or in the frequency domain by the Fourier duality. Here, we disclose a new spectral Talbot effect arising in optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. The effect occurs in ...

AIP Publishing2021

Observation of SQUID-Like Behavior in Fiber Laser with Intra-Cavity Epsilon-Near-Zero Effect

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Jiaye Wu

Establishing relations between fundamental effects in far-flung areas of physics is a subject of great interest in the current research. Realization of a novel photonic system akin to the radio-frequency superconducting quantum interference device (RF-SQUI ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality

Luc Thévenaz, Camille Sophie Brès, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Armand Vedadi-Comte, Mohammad Amin Shoaie, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani

Sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses possess a rectangular spectrum, enabling data to be encoded in a minimum spectral bandwidth and satisfying by essence the Nyquist criterion of zero inter-symbol interference (ISI). This property makes them very attractive for com ...

Nature Research2013

Difference-frequency generation in optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich, Ezgi Sahin

Difference-frequency generation (DFG) is elemental for nonlinear parametric processes such as optical parametric oscillation and is instrumental for generating coherent light at long wavelengths, especially in the middle infrared. Second-order nonlinear fr ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

Optical Nyquist-pulse generation with a power difference to the ideal sinc-shape sequence of < 1%

Luc Thévenaz, Camille Sophie Brès, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Armand Vedadi-Comte, Mohammad Amin Shoaie, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani

Sinc-shaped Nyquist-pulses possess a rectangular spectrum. Thus, a sinc-pulse transmission minimizes the carrier spacing down to the baud rate, and therefore, substantially increases the transmissible data rates. These perspectives have led to a strong res ...

VDE Verlag GmbH2013

Monolithic silicon nitride electro-optic modulator enabled by optically-assisted poling

Camille Sophie Brès, Boris Zabelich, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

Electro-optic (EO) modulation is a key functionality to have on-chip. However, achieving a notable linear EO effect in stoichiometric silicon nitride has been a persistent challenge due to the material's intrinsic properties. Recent advancements revealed t ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

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

Theta laser

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

An unidirectional short-wave infrared fiber laser, comprising a theta cavity, with a gain unit based on rare-earth cations-doped fiber, the theta cavity having a ring cavity with two additional 2 input ports×2 output ports directional couplers DC1 and DC2 ...

2018

Versatile high repetition rate 2 micron pulsed source based on wideband parametric conversion

Camille Sophie Brès, Adrien Billat, Steevy Joyce Cordette

We report an all-fiber pulsed source based on parametric conversion followed by thulium amplification able to deliver picosecond pulses at a repetition rate selectable between 2 and 5 GHz, of which central wavelength can be freely selected in the 2 micron ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Single-photon nonlinearities and blockade from a strongly driven photonic molecule

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi

Achieving the regime of single-photon nonlinearities in photonic devices by just exploiting the intrinsic high-order susceptibilities of conventional materials would open the door to practical semiconductor-based quantum photonic technologies. Here we show ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Continuous-wave four-wave mixing in cm-long Chalcogenide microstructured fiber

Camille Sophie Brès

We present the experimental demonstration of broadband four-wave mixing in a 2.5 cm-long segment of AsSe Chalcogenide microstructured fiber. The parametric mixing was driven by a continuous-wave pump compatible with data signal wavelength conversion. Four- ...

2011

Towards efficient broadband parametric conversion in ultra-long Si3N4 waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Arman Ayan

Broadband continuous-wave parametric gain and efficient wavelength conversion is an important functionality to bring on-chip. Recently, meter-long silicon nitride waveguides have been utilized to obtain continuous-traveling-wave parametric gain, establishi ...

Optica Publishing Group2023