Publications associées à Tunable acousto-optic optical frequency combs

Cost-effective equalization of electro-optic frequency combs in a Sagnac interferometer

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Ivan Cardea

We present a cost-effective electro-optic frequency comb generation and equalization method using a single phase modulator inserted in a Sagnac interferometer layout. The equalization relies on the interference of comb lines generated in both clockwise and ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Versatile shaping of optical frequency combs and applications

Jianqi Hu

Optical frequency combs are a series of phase-locked and equidistant laser lines in the spectral domain. In the time domain, they correspond to periodic pulse trains by the Fourier relation. The ability to shape optical combs and pulse trains is pivotal to ...

EPFL2021

Broadband Optical Spectrum Downconversion to RF Using Integrated Dual-Comb Source

Andrey Voloshin

Combining all the benefits of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in a chip scale spectroscopic sensor looks promising for mobile and wearable platform development. Dual-comb spectroscopy enables downconversion of optical absorption spectra into ...

IEEE2021

Coherent terahertz-to-microwave link using electro-optic-modulated Turing rolls

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth

Arising from modulation instability, Turing rolls in optical Kerr microresonators have been used in the generation of optical frequency combs and the synthesis of microwave and terahertz frequencies. In this work, by applying electro-optic modulation on te ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Dynamics and Applications of Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Maxim Karpov

Optical frequency combs are optical sources, which spectrum consists of a series of equally spaced narrowband frequencies. They made an outstanding leap forward in the accuracy of optical frequency metrology and became an attractive tool for numerous appli ...

EPFL2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Tianyi Liu

High-speed actuation of laser frequency(1)is critical in applications using lasers and frequency combs(2,3), and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer among optical carriers. For example, high-bandwidth feedbac ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Frequency division using a soliton-injected semiconductor gain-switched frequency comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng

With optical spectral marks equally spaced by a frequency in the microwave or the radio frequency domain, optical frequency combs have been used not only to synthesize optical frequencies from microwave references but also to generate ultralow-noise microw ...

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

Ultra-high-resolution software-defined photonic terahertz spectroscopy

Gabriel Aeppli

A novel technique for high-resolution 1.5 mu m photonics-enabled terahertz (THz) spectroscopy using software control of the illumination spectral line shape (SLS) is presented. The technique enhances the performance of a continuous-wave THz spectrometer to ...

2020

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

Nanophotonic supercontinuum-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy

Luc Thévenaz, Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Wolfgang Hänsel, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng

High resolution and fast detection of molecular vibrational absorption is important for organic synthesis, pharmaceutical processes, and environmental monitoring, and is enabled by mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser frequency combs via dual-comb spectroscopy. Her ...

2020

ULTRASTABLE LASER SYSTEM FOR SPECTROSCOPY OF THE 1.14 mu m INNER-SHELL CLOCK TRANSITION IN Tm AND ITS ABSOLUTE FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT

Sergey Fedorov

We characterize a 1.14 mu m ultrastable semiconductor laser system for precision spectroscopy of Tm inner-shell clock transition using a frequency comb. We stabilize both the repetition and the carrier-envelope offset frequencies of a commercial Ti : sapph ...

SPRINGER2019

Demonstration of Kramers-Kronig Detection of Four 20-Gbaud 16-QAM Channels after 50-km Transmission Using Kerr Combs to Perform Shared Phase Estimation

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate KK detection of four 20-Gbaud 16-QAM channels after 50-km transmission using two soliton Kerr combs at transmitter and receiver. The frequency comb coherence enables a shared phase noise estimation among multiple channels. (C) ...

IEEE2019

Spectral Purification of Microwave Signals with Disciplined Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng

Continuous-wave-driven Kerr nonlinear microresonators give rise to self-organization in terms of dissipative Kerr solitons, which constitute optical frequency combs that can be used to generate low-noise microwave signals. Here, by applying either amplitud ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

A microphotonic astrocomb

Stefan Kundermann, Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson

Earth-like planets, dark energy and variability of fundamental physical constants can be discovered by observing wavelength shifts in the optical spectra of astronomical objects(1-5). These wavelength shifts are so tiny that exquisitely accurate and precis ...

Nature Publishing Group2019

Chipscale soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg

Optical frequency combs provide equidistant frequency markers and have applications that encompass fundamental Physics to Engineering. This tutorial will review the fundamental operational principles and latest development in the field of soliton microreso ...

IEEE2019

Physics of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators and Application to Frequency Synthesis

Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

Optical-frequency combs, that is spectra of equidistant coherent optical lines, have revolutionized the precision measurements of time and frequency. In 2007 a new method to generate optical frequency combs was discovered. In contrast to conventional gener ...

EPFL2019

An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics

Nicolas Volet, Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

Optical-frequency synthesizers, which generate frequency-stable light from a single microwave-frequency reference, are revolutionizing ultrafast science and metrology, but their size, power requirement and cost need to be reduced if they are to be more wid ...

2018

Mid-infrared frequency comb via coherent dispersive wave generation in silicon nitride nanophotonic waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Camille Sophie Brès, Adrien Billat, Hairun Guo, Davide Grassani, Clemens Herkommer, Chuankun Zhang, Wenle Weng

Mid-infrared optical frequency combs are of significant interest for molecular spectroscopy due to the large absorption of molecular vibrational modes on the one hand, and the ability to implement superior comb-based spectroscopic modalities with increased ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Semiconductor laser chip stabilization by Si3N4 microresonator and Kerr comb generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Mirjam Pfeiffer, Andrey Voloshin

The experimental study of the InPlaser diode stabilization by high-Q Si3N4 microresonator is presented. We demonstrate how this stabilized laser diode considered as a pump laser may be used for optical frequency comb generation in the same microresonator. ...

IEEE2018