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Photonic assembly tunable via the pockels effect and method for use in frequency-modulated lidar

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Viacheslav Snigirev, Grigorii Likhachev

A photonic assembly, a laser setup comprising said photonic assembly and a method for performing frequency-modulated continuous-wave light detection and ranging using said laser setup are disclosed. The photonic assembly (1) comprises an active photonic ch ...

2023

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Guanhao Huang, Mikhail Churaev, 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

Platicon microcomb generation using laser self-injection locking

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

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

Electrically tunable optical resonator on a chip for fast tunable integrated lasers

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Grigorii Likhachev

The present invention relates to an electrically tunable photonic resonator device for a component having a fast and flat actuation response, comprising: - At least one optical waveguide with an optical interface for coupling in laser light, - At least one ...

2022

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

Design and Fabrication of Stretchable Photonic Fibers

Nicola Bartolomei

Optical fibers have reshaped the technological landscape, from optical networks and high-speed data communication to in situ imaging and non-invasive surgery methods. The revolution allowed by these fibers has been made possible by its fabrication method, ...

EPFL2021

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

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

Chip-based soliton microcomb module using a hybrid semiconductor laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Nicolas Volet

Photonic chip-based soliton microcombs have shown rapid progress and have already been used in many system-level applications. There has been substantial progress in realizing soliton microcombs that rely on compact laser sources, culminating in devices th ...

2020

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

Narrow-band and tunable intense terahertz pulses for mode-selective coherent phonon excitation

Christian Rüegg

We generate frequency-tunable narrow-band intense fields in the terahertz (THz) range by optical rectification of a temporally modulated near-infrared laser pumping a nonlinear organic crystal. Carrier-frequency tunability between 0.5 and 6.5THz is achieve ...

2020

Functional Elements for Quantum-Dot-Based Integrated Quantum Photonics

Antoine Maxime Delgoffe

Quantum Integrated Photonics (QIP) harnesses quantum-states of light on tiny chips, from generation to processing and eventual detection. Within this context, this thesis explores functional QIP elements resulting from the monolithic integration of semicon ...

EPFL2020

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

Hua Zhang, Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Denis Martin, Hezhi Zhang

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

Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

Tobias Kippenberg

Recent developments in chip-based nonlinear photonics offer the tantalizing prospect of realizing many applications that can use optical frequency comb devices that have form factors smaller than 1 cm(3) and that require less than 1 W of power. A key featu ...

Nature Publishing Group2019

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

Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuit for 3D Microimaging

Niels Quack

An integrated electronic-photonic phase-locked loop (PLL) modulates the frequency of a tunable laser for use in frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) lidar 3D imaging. The proposed lidar can perform 180k range measurements per second. The rms depth pr ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

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

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

Unidirectional all-fiber thulium-doped laser based on theta cavity and fiber Bragg grating as filtering element

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

We present first all-fiber unidirectional ring thulium-doped laser, based on isolator-free theta cavity configuration and fiber Bragg mirror as filtering element. Laser provides 1W output power with 30% slope efficiency, and linewidth of about 0.2nm. ...

OSA Publishing2016

InGaN alloys and heterostructures : impact of localization effects on light-matter interaction in planar microcavities

Marlene Glauser

The III-nitride semiconductor material system - (InAlGa)N - is of highest interest for optoelectronic applications due to its direct bandgap, tunable from the ultraviolet to the infrared spectral range. The most well-known are white light-emitting diodes, ...

EPFL2014