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

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

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

Efficient mass manufacturing of high-density, ultra-low-loss Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Yang Liu

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer significant advantages over traditional silicon photonics, including low loss and superior power handling at optical communication wavelength bands. To facilitate high-density integration an ...

2024

A photonic integrated circuit-based erbium-doped amplifier

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

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

Free-electron interaction with nonlinear optical states in microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Yujia Yang

The short de Broglie wavelength and strong interaction empower free electrons to probe structures and excitations in materials and biomolecules. Recently, electron-photon interactions have enabled new optical manipulation schemes for electron beams. In thi ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2024

Probing the Formation of Nonlinear Optical States with Free Electrons

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Yujia Yang

Combining nonlinear integrated photonics with electron microscopy, we probe the formation of optical dissipative structures in Si3N4 microresonators with free electrons and find unique spectral fingerprints in the electron spectrum that enable new electron ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Wafer-scale Manufacturing of Ultra-low Loss, High-density Si3N4 Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji

We demonstrate Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits featuring ultra-low propagation loss and tight optical confinement, fabricated with a subtractive process. We report an increase in propagation loss in Si3N4 waveguides after exposure to ultraviolet (UV) ir ...

Optical Society of America2023

Coupling Free Electrons and Cavity Photons in a Transmission Electron Microscope

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

We couple free electrons to the optical modes of a photonic microring resonator. Inelastic electron scattering leads to the generation of cavity photons, correlated to the electrons in time and energy loss. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

A fully hybrid integrated erbium-based laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Andrey Voloshin, Yang Liu, Andrea Bancora

Erbium-doped fibre lasers exhibit high coherence and low noise as required for fibre-optic sensing, gyroscopes, LiDAR and optical frequency metrology. Endowing erbium-based gain in photonic integrated circuits can provide a basis for miniaturizing low-nois ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

Piezoelectrically tunable, narrow linewidth photonic integrated extended-DBR lasers

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu, Andrey Voloshin, Junyin Zhang, Andrea Bancora, Simone Bianconi

Recent advancements in ultra-low-loss silicon nitride (Si3N4)-based photonic integrated circuits have surpassed fiber lasers in coherence and frequency agility. However, high manufacturing costs of DFB and precise control requirements, as required for self ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Octave-Spanning Kerr Frequency Comb in a Si3N4 Microresonator at Electronically Detectable Repetition Rate

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Zheru Qiu, Alisa Davydova

A key challenge in microresonator-based frequency combs has been achieving f-2f self-referencing, which requires a powerful, octave-spanning microcomb. Stable self-referenced combs have numerous applications including ultra-low-noise microwave generation a ...

IEEE2025

Waveguide amplifier and waveguide amplifier fabrication method

Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Yang Liu

The present invention concerns a waveguide amplifier comprising: - at least one embedding cladding material or layer, and - at least one rare-earth ion implanted silicon nitride material or layer embedded in the at least one embedding cladding material or ...

2023

A Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based Erbium-doped Waveguide Amplifier

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

We demonstrate an erbium-doped waveguide amplifier by erbium ion implantation in Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits, achieving 145 mW on-chip output power and more than 30 dB small-signal gain, which is on par with commercial fiber amplifiers and beyond st ...

IEEE2022

C- and L-band tunable integrated Erbium lasers via scalable manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Andrey Voloshin, Grigorii Likhachev, Yang Liu, Simone Bianconi, Xuan Yang

We demonstrate an integrated Erbium-based tunable laser using wafer-scale fabrication and ion implantation of silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits. We achieve single-frequency lasing tunable from 1530 nm to 1621 nm covering nearly the entire optica ...

Optica Publishing Group2025

Cavity-mediated electron-photon pairs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

Quantum information, communication, and sensing rely on the generation and control of quantum correlations in complementary degrees of freedom. Free electrons coupled to photonics promise novel hybrid quantum technologies, although single-particle correlat ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Photonic-electronic integrated circuit-based coherent LiDAR engine

Edoardo Charbon, Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Lukashchuk, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Andrey Voloshin, Grigorii Likhachev, Yang Liu, Andrea Bancora, Halil Kerim Yildirim

Chip-scale integration is a key enabler for the deployment of photonic technologies. Coherent laser ranging or FMCW LiDAR, a perception technology that benefits from instantaneous velocity and distance detection, eye-safe operation, long-range, and immunit ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Photon Fock State Generation in Photonic Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang, Jiahe Pan

We generate correlated pairs of free electrons and cavity photons by sending an electron beam across a photonic microresonator and filtering temporal coincidences. We further characterize the pairs analogue to a heralded single photon source. ...

Optical Society of America2023

Low-temperature and hydrogen-free silicon dioxide cladding for next-generation integrated photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li, Marta Divall

We demonstrate a process for hydrogen-free low-loss silicon oxide (SiO2) films deposited using S iCl4 and O 2 as precursors. A wide low-loss window from 1260 nm to 1625 nm is achieved at a deposition temperature of 300 ◦C, essential for next generation pho ...

Optical Society of America2024

First Demonstration of Erbium -Doped Waveguide Amplifier Enabled Multi-Tb/s (16x1.6T) Coherent Transmission

Tobias Kippenberg, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Xi Chen

We demonstrate the first EDWA-enabled Terabit-class coherent optical communication with 1.6-Tb/s net bit rate per channel and 16 -channel WDM transmission over 81 -km fiber, proving the potential of such on-chip amplification for future coherent applicatio ...

IEEE2023

High-Energy Mode-Locked Pulses from a Photonic Integrated Mamyshev Oscillator

Jiale Sun, Xurong Li, Zhongshu Liu, Tobias Kippenberg, Jianqi Hu, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li, Grigorii Likhachev, Xuan Yang

Mode-locked lasers (MLLs), capable of generating ultrashort coherent pulses, have been instrumental for numerous applications, including optical frequency metrology, eye surgery, machining, additive manufacturing, imaging and spectroscopy. However, commerc ...

IEEE2025

Hertz-linewidth, high-power, frequency-agile photonic integrated E-DBR laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu

We demonstrate hybrid integration of an RSOA with an extended-distributed Bragg reflector (E-DBR) laser cavity implemented on a Si3N4 chip with monolithically integrated piezoactuators. The laser exhibits intrinsic linewidth of 4 Hz with laser frequency tu ...

Optical Society of America2024