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Guided Nonlinear Optics for Information Processing

This special issue explores the dynamic and rapidly evolving field of optical computing, with a focus on guided nonlinear optics for information processing. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in this area [1], fuelled by groundbreaking experim ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2025

Low-noise, frequency-agile photonic integrated lasers

Anat Siddharth

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have revolutionized optical communication and precision metrology by enabling compact, scalable, and high-performance optical systems. However, conventional integrated laser sources suffer from limitations such as poor c ...

EPFL2025

Integrated chirped photonic-crystal cavities in gallium phosphide for broadband soliton generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Miles Henry Anderson, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

Chirped mirrors have underpinned advances in ultra-fast lasers based on bulk optics but have yet to be fully exploited in integrated photonics, where they could provide a means to engineer otherwise unattainable dispersion profiles for a range of nonlinear ...

2024

Piezoelectric actuation for integrated photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Andrey Voloshin, Viacheslav Snigirev, Terence Albert Emile Blésin, Andrea Bancora, Vladimir Shadymov

Recent decades have seen significant advancements in integrated photonics, driven by improvements in nanofabrication technology. This field has been developed from integrated semiconductor lasers and low-loss waveguides to optical modulators, enabling the ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Morphological and Material Programability of a Hall-Effect Based Soft Tactile Sensors

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Sudong Lee

The different receptors in human skin show not only diversity in the stimuli to which they respond, but also variable sensitivity and directionality. This is often determined by their location or morphology, and can play an important role in filtering or a ...

IEEE2024

All-Dielectric Nanophotonic via Glass Fluid Instabilities

Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau

In this thesis work, we propose to exploit an innovative micro/nano-fabrication process, based on controlled fluid instabilities of a thin viscous film of chalcogenide glass. Amorphous selenium and arsenic triselenide were used in this thesis work, and com ...

EPFL2024

Thermo-optic epsilon-near-zero effects

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Jiaye Wu

Nonlinear epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nanodevices featuring vanishing permittivity and CMOS-compatibility are attractive solutions for large-scale-integrated systems-on-chips. Such confined systems with unavoidable heat generation impose critical challenges fo ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Ultraviolet to mid-infrared optical properties of sputtered Al(Sc)N-on-SiO2 thin films and experimental demonstration of AlN integrated photonic devices in the telecom C-band

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Hernán Furci

Thin film aluminum nitride (AlN) stands out as a promising material for integrated photonics due to its wide bandgap of 6.1 eV, facilitating efficient operation across diverse spectral ranges. Its inherent electro-optic and nonlinear optical properties mak ...

2024

Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization

Arman Ayan

Photonics integrated circuits are a promising solution for the growing demands of data transmission and future system-on-chip technologies. Within this context, nonlinear optical interactions offer unique opportunities for all-optical processing, sampling, ...

EPFL2024

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

Observation of Fundamental Charge Noise in Electro-Optic Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Guanhao Huang, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

We observed that Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate photonic integrated microresonators exhibit an unexpected Flicker type (i.e. 1/f1.2) scaling in the intrinsic refractive noise spectrum, significantly deviating from the well-established thermorefracti ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

At what spatial scale does natural selection operate? Using multiscale frameworks to calibrate the effects of environmental factors across landscape continuums

Annie Sandrine Guillaume

Patterns in nature arise from processes interacting across a continuum of spatial scales, where new relationships emerge at each level of investigation. These patterns are nested features encompassing fine-scale local patterns, such as topography and geolo ...

EPFL2024

Live-cell imaging powered by computation

Suliana Manley

The proliferation of microscopy methods for live-cell imaging offers many new possibilities for users but can also be challenging to navigate. The prevailing challenge in live-cell fluorescence microscopy is capturing intra-cellular dynamics while preservi ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Weak gravitational lensing measurements of Abell 2744 using JWST and shear measurement algorithm pyRRG-JWST

David Richard Harvey

We update the publicly available weak lensing shear measurement algorithm pyRRG for the JWST, and apply it to UNCOVER DR1 imaging of galaxy cluster Abell 2744. At short wavelengths (

Oxford Univ Press2024

Hybrid lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride platform for mid-IR supercontinuum generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev

Integrated optics has shown itself very convenient for exploiting nonlinear processes as it results in high confinement factor, freedom of dispersion engineering and compactness. However, the choice of materials is crucial for the development of nonlinear ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2023

Cascaded all-optical quantization employing step-size MMI and shape-optimized power splitter

Jijun He

As a key unit of future high-throughput communications, optical analog to digital converter (OADC) with all-optical quantizer element that simultaneously possesses high resolution, large bandwidth and compact size is highly promising. A pending issue of co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Sub-kHz-Linewidth External-Cavity Laser (ECL) With Si3N4 Resonator Used as a Tunable Pump for a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu

Combining optical gain in direct-bandgap III-V materials with tunable optical feedback offered by advanced photonic integrated circuits is key to chip-scale external-cavity lasers (ECL), offering wideband tunability along with low optical linewidths. Exter ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

A heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride photonic platform

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Mikhail Churaev, Miles Henry Anderson, Viacheslav Snigirev, Terence Albert Emile Blésin

The availability of thin-film lithiumniobate on insulator (LNOI) and advances in processing have led to the emergence of fully integrated LiNbO3 electro-optic devices. Yet to date, LiNbO3 photonic integrated circuits have mostly been fabricated using non-s ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Amorphous Silicon Based Microchannel Plates for Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography

Samira Alexandra Frey

Microchannel plates fabricated from hydrogenated amorphous silicon (AMCPs) are a promising alternative to conventional lead glass microchannel plates. Their main advantages lie in their cheaper and more flexible fabrication processes, allowing for adaptabl ...

EPFL2023