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Single-Mode Laser in the Telecom Range by Deterministic Amplification of the Topological Interface Mode

Photonic integrated circuits are paving the way for novel on-chip functionalities with diverse applications in communication, computing, and beyond. The integration of on-chip light sources, especially single-mode lasers, is crucial for advancing those pho ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

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

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Guanhao Huang, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev

Early works(1) and recent advances in thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator have enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits(2,3), modulators with improved half-wave voltage(4,5), electro-optic frequency combs(6) and on-chip electro-optic devic ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Metasurface-stabilized optical microcavities

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Cavities concentrate light and enhance its interaction with matter. Confining to microscopic volumes is necessary for many applications but space constraints in such cavities limit the design freedom. Here we demonstrate stable optical microcavities by cou ...

Nature Portfolio2023

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

Camille Sophie Brès, Qian Li, Xuanyi Liu, Jiaye Wu, Marco Clementi

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

Platicon microcomb generation using laser self-injection locking

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Yang Liu

The past decade has witnessed major advances in the development and system-level applications of photonic integrated microcombs, that are coherent, broadband optical frequency combs with repetition rates in the millimeter-wave to terahertz domain. Most of ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Low-noise frequency-agile photonic integrated lasers for coherent ranging

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Andrey Voloshin, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev, Vladimir Shadymov

Stable and tunable integrated lasers are fundamental building blocks for applications from spectroscopy to imaging and communication. Here the authors present a narrow linewidth hybrid photonic integrated laser with low frequency noise and fast linear wave ...

Nature Portfolio2022

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Nikolai Kuznetsov

The ability to amplify optical signals is of pivotal importance across science and technology typically using rare-earth-doped fibres or gain media based on III-V semiconductors. A different physical process to amplify optical signals is to use the Kerr no ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Ultra-narrow linewidth lasers and microcombs based on self-injection locking in integrated photonics (Invited)

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu

Recent developments of self-injection locking of a DFB laser with an ultra-high Q resonator have enabled unprecedented low-noise performance of coherent light sources. We review the demonstration of ultra-narrow linewidth laser and microcombs in integrated ...

IEEE2021

Investigation of photoinduced effects in plasmonic nanocavities

Aqeel Ahmed

Light matter interaction can be boosted by several orders of magnitude by tailoring the photonic environment, thus enabling a wide range of applications. One particular example are plasmonic nanostructures that support localized surface plasmon polariton ( ...

EPFL2021

Integrated gallium phosphide nonlinear photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Miles Henry Anderson

Gallium phosphide (GaP) is an indirect-bandgap semiconductor used widely in solid-state lighting. Despite numerous intriguing optical properties-including large chi ((2)) and chi ((3)) coefficients, a high refractive index (>3) and transparency from visibl ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Surface-based luminescence measurement substrate

Raphaël Barbey, Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes

Surface-based measurement substrate including: • - at least one optical cavity layer (7); • - a first optical mirror (9) and a second optical mirror (11), the first and second optical mirrors enclosing the optical cavity layer and defining an optical cavit ...

2020

III-nitride photonic cavities

Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté

Owing to their wide direct bandgap tenability, III-nitride (III-N) compound semiconductors have been proven instrumental in the development of blue light-emitting diodes that led to the so-called solid-state lighting revolution and blue laser diodes that a ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2020

Dual-frequency-comb spectrometer and spectroscopy method for spectroscopic investigation of a sample

Tobias Kippenberg, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng

A dual-frequency-comb spectrometer and a method for spectroscopic investigation of a sample are described. The spectrometer includes first and second frequency comb devices for emitting laser pulses along first and second light paths, wherein the repetitio ...

2020

Short cavity InGaN-based laser diodes with cavity length below 300 mu m

Jean-François Carlin, Denis Martin, Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Hua Zhang, Ching-Wen Shih

We report on a practical method for developing InGaN-based edge emitting laser diodes of cavity length down to 45 mu m. Samples consisting of one uncoated cleaved facet and one etched facet coated with a high-reflectivity (HR) dielectric distributed Bragg ...

2019

Broadened Bandwidth Amplified Spontaneous Emission from Blue GaN-Based Short-Cavity Superluminescent Light-Emitting Diodes

Jean-François Carlin, Denis Martin, Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Hua Zhang, Ching-Wen Shih

We report broad bandwidth blue superluminescent light-emitting diodes (SLEDs) based on a short-cavity active region. The dependencies of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) output power and gain bandwidth on cavity length were investigated in devices whos ...

2019

Mask-aligner Talbot lithography using a 193 nm CW light source

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Raoul Kirner, Andreas Vetter

We present and discuss Talbot mask-aligner lithography, relying on a continuous wave laser emitting at 193nm for the illumination. In this source, a diode laser at 772nm is amplified by a tapered amplifier in master-oscillator power-amplifier configuration ...

2018

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

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

Dual-Emission Band All-Fiber Laser based on Theta Cavity with Thulium- and Holmium-Doped Fibers

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

We present first dual-wavelength all-fiber laser, based on isolator-free theta cavity with two fiber Bragg mirrors and thulium- and holmium-doped fibers. Laser provides 350mW total power with 8% slope efficiency, and linewidth less than 01.mm. ...

Ieee2017