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

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

Resonators with tailored optical path by cascaded-mode conversions

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Optical resonators enable the generation, manipulation, and storage of electromagnetic waves. The physics underlying their operation is determined by the interference of electromagnetic waves, giving rise to the resonance spectrum. This mechanism causes th ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Probing unconventional performance of fiber resonators: light storage, generation and manipulation

Ivan Cardea

This thesis aims at investigating the performance of figure-9 (figure-of-nine) optical fiber resonators as a practical solution for light storage, light generation and manipulation. The first part of the thesis focuses on a theoretical and experimental stu ...

EPFL2021

Localized Photon Lasing in a Polaritonic Lattice Landscape

Daniel Oberli, Marcia Portella Oberli, Fauzia Jabeen, Morteza Navadeh Toupchi

Periodic photonic structures have attracted much interest due to their versatility for controlling light propagation. The dispersion of photon modes in photonic lattices exhibits an energy band structure analo-gous to the electronic one in crystals. An imp ...

American Physical Society (APS)2020

Physics of optically driven nanojunctions

Philippe Andreas Rölli

Recent years have seen spectacular developments in the domain of nano-optics. Alongside the well-known techniques of super-resolution microscopy progress in nanofabrication has enabled important improvements in the fields of optical imaging and spectros ...

EPFL2020

Resonant Waveguide Gratings for Color-Selective Diffraction

Giorgio Quaranta

Resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs), also known as guided mode resonant (GMR) gratings or waveguide-mode resonant gratings, are dielectric structures where these resonant diffractive elements benefit from lateral leaky guided modes and can operate from UV t ...

EPFL2019

Slow light engineering in resonant photonic crystal line-defect waveguides

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam

Slow light plays an outstanding role in a wide variety of optical applications, from quantum information to optical processing. While slow optical guiding in photonic crystal waveguides is typically based on Bragg band gaps occurring in non-resonant photon ...

2019

Light-Matter Interaction in III-Nitride Waveguides: Propagating Polaritons and Optical Gain

Joachim Armand Simonne Ciers

III-nitride waveguides featuring AlInN claddings and GaN/AlGaN quantum wells (QWs) offer promising perspectives for applications in many fields of short-wavelength photonics. Thanks to their nearly lattice-matched nature, these structures exhibit an excell ...

EPFL2018

Study of additive manufactured microwave cavities for pulsed optically pumped atomic clock applications

Anja Skrivervik, Emile Jacques de Rijk

Additive manufacturing (AM) of passive microwave components is of high interest for the cost-effective and rapid prototyping or manufacture of devices with complex geometries. Here, we present an experimental study on the properties of recently demonstrate ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2018

Near-field characterization of Bloch surface waves based 2D optical components

Richa Dubey

Bloch surface waves (BSWs) are surface electromagnetic modes that propagate at the interface between a multilayer substrate and a homogeneous external medium. The optical field of the surface mode is confined near the surface of the multilayer. This vertic ...

EPFL2017

Mid-infrared continuous-wave parametric amplification in chalcogenide microstructured fibers

Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Sida Xing

The persistent growth of interest in the middle infrared (MIR) is stimulating the development of sources and components. Novel waveguides and fibers for the efficient use of nonlinear effects in the MIR are being intensively studied. Highly nonlinear silic ...

2017

Compact Microwave Cavity with Increased Magnetic Field Homogeneity

Anja Skrivervik, Anton Evgeniev Ivanov

In this study we aim at improving the homogeneity of the magnetic field inside a microwave resonator cavity designed in line with the development of a novel, high performance frequency standard. We study the effect of modified boundary conditions applied t ...

2016

GaN-based photonic crystal cavities on silicon for visible and near infrared applications

Noelia Vico Triviño

Photonic crystal (PhC) cavities combine ultra-high quality (Q) factors with small mode volumes, resulting in an enhancement of the light-matter interaction at the nanoscale, which, beyond fundamental studies is advantageous for countless applications in ph ...

EPFL2015

Partially gated lateral tunnel field effect transistor for optical applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Nilay Dagtekin

Silicon-based partially gated tunnel FETs are characterized under optical and electrical excitation. Most significant outcomes of the experiments are (1) unique characteristics, namely, light induced negative transconductance and optically tunable output r ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Optical properties of BiTeBr and BiTeCl

Helmuth Berger, Arnaud Magrez, Philippe Bugnon, Ana Akrap

We present a comparative study of the optical properties-reflectance, transmission, and optical conductivity- and Raman spectra of two layered bismuth-tellurohalides BiTeBr and BiTeCl at 300 and 5 K, for light polarized in the a-b planes. Despite different ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Developing luminescent Brownian probes for near-field investigations of the intracellular environment

Flavio Maurizio Mor

Life sciences have a constantly growing need for novel methodological approaches suitable to investigate the intracellular environment with increased temporal and spatial resolutions. Recently, optical near-field probes, such as laser-irradiated pointed me ...

EPFL2013

On Micro Optical Elements for Efficient Light Diffusion

Roland Andreas Bitterli

Efficient light management is one of the key issues in modern energy conversion systems, be it to collect optical power or to redistribute light generated by high power light emitters. This thesis touches mainly on the subject of efficient light redistribu ...

EPFL2013

Subwavelength Metallic Structures for Sensing : Modeling & Characterization

Qing Tan

Following rapid developments in biotechnology and medicine, optical sensing promises to be extremely important in various applications such as drug discovery, environmental monitoring, etc. Refractive index (RI) based optical sensing is straightforward to ...

EPFL2012

Development of Tunable Optical MEMS for Advanced Laser Beam Shaping, Homogenizing and Speckle Reduction

Jonathan Masson

In this thesis, the development, design, fabrication and characterization of three innovative laser beam shaping, homogenizing and speckle reduction devices are reported. Typical beam shaping devices are static and not easily adaptable to a large variety o ...

EPFL2012

Cavity-Optomechanics with Silica Microtoroids : Quantum-Coherent Coupling and Optomechanically Induced Transparency

Stefan Alexander Weis

Here, I report on a cryogenic cavity optomechanics experiment that has been set up with the goal to cool a mechanical degree of freedom of a fused silica microtoroidal resonator into the quantum regime by means of a combination of cryogenic and laser cooli ...

EPFL2012