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Chaotic microcomb-based parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk, Aleksandr Tusnin

The intrinsic random amplitude and phase modulation of 40 distinct lines of a microresonator frequency comb operated in the modulation instability regime are used to realize massively parallel random-modulation continuous-wave light detection and ranging, ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

Metamaterial graphene photodetector with bandwidth exceeding 500 gigahertz

Michael Baumann, Yesim Koyaz

Although graphene has met many of its initially predicted optoelectronic, thermal, and mechanical properties, photodetectors with large spectral bandwidths and extremely high frequency responses remain outstanding. In this work, we demonstrate a >500 gigah ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Methods for acute and long-term imaging of the ventral nerve cord in behaving adult Drosophila

Laura Joan Hermans

Understanding how neural circuits remodel and adapt to animal behavior is a central theme in the field of Neuroscience. One strategy to reach this goal is to repeatedly record the same animal's neural circuits and observe how they adapt when facing differe ...

EPFL2022

Integration of MEMS in Silicon Photonics

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...

EPFL2021

Fundamentals and perspectives of ultrafast photoferroic recording

Anna Pogrebna

The ability to switch ferroics (ferro-, ferri-, antiferromagnets, ferroelectrics, multiferroics) between two stable bit states is one of the keystones of modern data storage technology. Due to many new ideas, originating from fundamental research during th ...

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

Brillouin scattering in gas-filled hollow-core fibres

Flavien Gyger

Edward E. Hagenlocker and William G. Rado demonstrated Brillouin interaction in gas for the first time in 1965, right after the very first demonstrations of stimulated Brillouin scattering in solid materials. In their experiment, they used a megawatt pulse ...

EPFL2020

Integrated elastomer-based device for measuring the mechanics of adherent cell monolayers

Herbert Shea, Alexandre Poulin, Cristina Martin Olmos, Francesca Sorba

Cells in the body collectively sustain mechanical deformations in almost all physiological functions. From the morphogenesis stage, cells' ability to sustain stress is essential for the body's well-being. Several pathologies have been associated with abnor ...

2019

Advanced Diamond Microfabrication for Microoptics and Photonics

Marcell Kristof Kiss

Diamond is an exceptional material - hard, stiff, transparent, which makes it ideal for the fabrication of optical and mechanical systems that take advantage of these properties. Diamond is not only "better", but it offers the possibility of integrating br ...

EPFL2019

All-optically induced quasi phase matching in SiN waveguides for second harmonic generation enhancement

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Camille Sophie Brès, Adrien Billat, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Davide Grassani

We report more than 30dB second harmonic generation enhancement in SiN waveguide by all-optical writing of a persistent χ(2) grating. Phase matching peaks are observed for different writing wavelengths. ...

OSA Publishing2017

Deep Cfht Y-Band Imaging Of Vvds-F22 Field. I. Data Products And Photometric Redshifts

Huanyuan Shan

We present our deep Y-band imaging data of a two square degree field within the F22 region of the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. The observations were conducted using the WIRCam instrument mounted at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). The total on-sky time ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Magnetic-photoconductive material, magneto-optical data storage device, magneto-optical data storage system, and light-tunable microwave components comprising a photoconductive-ferromagnetic device

László Forró, Bálint Náfrádi, Endre Horvath

The present invention concerns a magnetic-photoconductive material including orientable magnetic moments or spins, the material being configured to generate photo-carriers permitting to orientate or re-orientate the magnetic moments or spins at a material ...

2016

Experimental determination of the bulk Rashba parameters in BiTeBr

Helmuth Berger, Philippe Bugnon, Arnaud Magrez

Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations, Hall effect, and optical reflectance (R(omega)) measurements have been performed on single crystals of BiTeBr. Under magnetic fields up to 32 tesla and at temperatures as low as 0.4K, the SdH data shows a single oscill ...

IOP Publishing - EPL Association2016

Supported TiO2 films deposited at different energies: Implications of the surface compactness on the catalytic kinetics

Michaël Bensimon, Juan Kiwi, César Pulgarin, Rosendo Sanjines, Sami Rtimi, Stefanos Giannakis

Insight is provided in this study for the effect of the TiO2film densification/compactness on polyethy-lene (PE-TiO2) by sputtering TiO2at two very different energy levels. Uniform, adhesive low energy filmswere prepared by direct current magnetron sputter ...

Elsevier2016

Simultaneous observation of the quantization and the interference pattern of a plasmonic near-field

Fabrizio Carbone, Luca Piazza, Brett Eugene Barwick, Yoshie Murooka, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen

Surface plasmon polaritons can confine electromagnetic fields in subwavelength spaces and are of interest for photonics, optical data storage devices and biosensing applications. In analogy to photons, they exhibit wave-particle duality, whose different as ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Effect of the thin-film limit on the measurable optical properties of graphene

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Stefaan De Wolf, Jakub Holovsky

The fundamental sheet conductance of graphene can be directly related to the product of its absorption coefficient, thickness and refractive index. The same can be done for graphene's fundamental opacity if the so-called thin-film limit is considered. Here ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Optical properties of small metal clusters

Chongqi Yu

This thesis is devoted to the study of the optical properties of small metal clusters and metal cluster organic compounds. For this purpose a ultra-high vacuum (UHV) experimental apparatus has been built which allows for the deposition of mass selected neu ...

EPFL2015

Coherent creation and destruction of orbital wavepackets in Si:P with electrical and optical read-out

The ability to control dynamics of quantum states by optical interference, and subsequent electrical read-out, is crucial for solid state quantum technologies. Ramsey interference has been successfully observed for spins in silicon and nitrogen vacancy cen ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Study of constrained Brownian motion of nanoparticles near an interface using optical tweezers

Thomas Lehnert, Martinus Gijs, Hui Yang, Matteo Cornaglia, Raphaël Etienne Jean Trouillon

We demonstrate a method to determine the Brownian motion and the diffusion coefficient of a nanoparticle in water in a plane that is parallel to a solid boundary and as function of the distance normal to that boundary by using an optical tweezers instrumen ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Narrowband selected high-redshift galaxy candidates contaminated by lower redshift [OIII] ultra-strong emitter line galaxies

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement

Context. Lyman-break galaxies (LBG) and narrowband (NB) surveys have been successful at detecting large samples of high-redshift galaxies. Both methods are subject to contamination from low-redshift interlopers. Aims. Our aim is to investigate the nature o ...

EDP Sciences2015