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Linear and nonlinear applications of miniaturized silicon nitride microresonators

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are the subject of massive interest due to the range of applications they can provide at a huge scale while building on well-established CMOS technologies. One of the critical parameters defining a technology's maturity ...

EPFL2023

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EPFL2021

Soft functional fibers for mechanical sensing and actuation

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EPFL2021

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OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

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2020

Plug-and-play TOF-PET Module Readout Based on TDC-on-FPGA and Gigabit Optical Fiber Network

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IEEE2019

4x40 Gb/s 2 pJ/bit Optical RX with 8ns Power-on and CDR-Lock Time in 14nm CMOS

Alessandro Cevrero, Thomas Toifl, Ilter Ozkaya

We report a low-power 4-channel NRZ optical RX including a digital burst-mode CDR measured up to 40Gb/s/lane in 14nm CMOS. The RX, designed for 850nm VCSEL based optical links, can wake-up and achieve phase-lock in 8ns at BER

IEEE2018

A 60 Gb/s 1.9 pJ/bit NRZ Optical-Receiver with Low Latency Digital CDR in 14nm CMOS FinFET

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Lukas Kull, Thomas Toifl, Ilter Ozkaya

This work reports a low power implementation of a 60Gb/s NRZ optical receiver (RX) in 14nm bulk CMOS finFET featuring a first-order digital CDR with high jitter tolerance (JTOL). The design includes a single phase-rotator (PR) with low complexity control l ...

2017

A 64-Gb/s 1.4-pJ/b NRZ Optical Receiver Data-Path in 14-nm CMOS FinFET

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Lukas Kull, Thomas Toifl, Ilter Ozkaya

A 64-Gb/s high-sensitivity non-return to zero receiver (RX) data-path is demonstrated in the 14-nm-bulk FinFET CMOS technology. To achieve high sensitivity, the RX incorporates a transimpedance amplifier whose gain and bandwidth are co-optimized with a 1-t ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

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Versatile short-wave and mid-infrared sources based on wideband parametric conversion

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Control of pulsed light propagation through multimode optical fibers

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EPFL2016

Delivery of ultrashort spatially focused pulses through a multimode fiber for two photon endoscopic imaging

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Optical Injection and Lasing Dynamics in Long-Wavelength VCSELs With Intracavity Patterning

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Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

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EPFL2013

Spatial-Mode Discrimination in Guided and Antiguided Arrays of Long-Wavelength VCSELs

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Three means of optical confinement imposed on InAlGaAs/InP 1.3 mu m VCSEL arrays are investigated with self-consistent numerical model of laser operation. Laterally patterned tunnel junction (TJ), in-build guiding realized with air-gap patterning, and anti ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Wafer-fused heterostructures : application to vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers emitting in the 1310 nm band

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Currently, wafer-fusion technology represents an effective technique for enhancing the performance of long-wavelength vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on classical double heterostructures with multi-quantum well active regions. Using ...

Institute of Physics2011