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Enabling Wide Bandwidth in Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Slot Antennas by Using Low-Index Metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Jalaledin Tayebpour, Amir Jafargholi

This paper presents a solution to overcome the inherently limited bandwidth of substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) slot antennas. It is analytically shown that by decreasing the permittivity of a dielectric loaded slot antenna, the resulting bandwidth inc ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization

Arman Ayan

Photonics integrated circuits are a promising solution for the growing demands of data transmission and future system-on-chip technologies. Within this context, nonlinear optical interactions offer unique opportunities for all-optical processing, sampling, ...

EPFL2024

Waveguide amplifier and waveguide amplifier fabrication method

Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu

The present invention concerns a waveguide amplifier comprising: - at least one embedding cladding material or layer, and - at least one rare-earth ion implanted silicon nitride material or layer embedded in the at least one embedding cladding material or ...

2023

High density lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Zelin Tan, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

Photonic integrated circuits have the potential to pervade into multiple applications traditionally limited to bulk optics. Of particular interest for new applications are ferroelectrics such as Lithium Niobate, which exhibit a large Pockels effect, but ar ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Resonators with tailored optical path by cascaded-mode conversions

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Marco Piccardo

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

Ultra-Small Bent Meta-Waveguide Filters

Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam, Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

This paper demonstrates the capability of locally resonant metamaterials (LRMs) for creating compact metallic waveguide E- and H-bends, which are simultaneously working as bandpass filters. For creating these bent meta-filters, we use composite pin-pipe wa ...

IEEE2022

PHz Electronic Device Design and Simulation for Waveguide-Integrated Carrier-Envelope Phase Detection

Yujia Yang

Carrier-envelope phase (CEP) detection of ultrashort optical pulses and low-energy waveform field sampling have recently been demonstrated using direct time-domain methods that exploit optical-field photoemission from plasmonic nanoantennas. These devices ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Optical computing and reconfiguring with spatiotemporal nonlinearities in waveguides

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ugur Tegin

A device for optical computing comprises at least one modulator (210, 710, 810, 910, 1010, 1110, 1210, 1310, 1410, 1520, 1610, 1710, 1810, 1910, 2010, 2110, 2210) and at least one waveguide (220, 720, 820, 920, 1020, 1120, 1220, 1320, 1420, 1530, 1620, 172 ...

2022

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

Tobias Kippenberg, Grigorii Likhachev, Anat Siddharth

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

Three-dimensional fabrication of sub-micron optical waveguides in PDMS and other polymer materials

Giulia Panusa

Optical waveguides are one of the most important photonic components. They are indispensable tools in many of todayâ s technologies because of their capacity of guiding light. In particular, compact, low loss, flexible polymer optical waveguides are cruci ...

EPFL2021

Microwave or millimeter wave passive components or devices

Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam, Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

A passive device comprising a hollow waveguide including first and second wall structures extending in a guiding direction, an interconnecting base extending between the wall structures and an enclosure extending between the wall structures, the enclosure ...

2021

Narrowband Optical Coupler Using Fano Interference in First Order Diffraction

Olivier Martin, Benjamin Gallinet, Fabian Michael Lütolf, Giorgio Quaranta

Light coupling in waveguides has been extensively investigated in a variety of contexts, from photonic integrated circuits to biosensing and near-eye displays for augmented reality. Here, narrowband diffraction is reported using a Fano interference effect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Prototype mitre bends of the ex-vessel waveguide system for the ITER upper launcher: Thermal hydraulic simulations and experiments with off-center mm-wave beams

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Matteo Vagnoni, Anastasia Xydou, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

On ITER, long pulse gyrotrons are required as a power source for electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and current drive (CD). The microwaves are guided from the gyrotrons, which are placed far from the Tokamak, into the plasma by transmission lines (TLs) and a ...

2021

Subwavelength Metawaveguide Filters and Metaports

Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam, Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

This paper proposes an alternative technique for the design of miniaturized waveguide filters based on locally resonant metamaterials (LRMs). We implement ultrasmall metamaterial filters (metafilters) by exploiting a subwavelength (sub-λ) guiding mechanism ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Theory of intrinsic propagation losses in topological edge states of planar photonic crystals

Juan Pablo Vasco Cano

Using a semianalytic guided-mode expansion technique, we present theory and analysis of intrinsic propagation losses for topological photonic crystal slab waveguide structures with modified honeycomb lattices of circular or triangular holes. Although conve ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

A Subwavelength Microwave Bandpass Filter Based on a Chiral Waveguide

Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam, Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

Wave manipulation at a subwavelength scale has recently attracted significant interest, especially for low-frequency wave propagation, from acoustic to microwave devices. Recently, a few methods achieving subwavelength routing using locally resonant metama ...

IEEE Xplore2020

Robustness in Subwavelength Locally-Resonant Metamaterial Waveguides

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Nadège Sihame Kaïna, Bakhtiyar Orazbayev

Guiding electromagnetic energy at a subwavelength scale is one of the most highly demanded functionalities in a variety of applications, including compact, lightweight satellite communications, signal and data processing, and power systems. The existing sc ...

IEEE2020

Photonic microwave generation in the X- and K-band using integrated soliton microcombs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He

Microwave photonic technologies, which upshift the carrier into the optical domain, have facilitated the generation and processing of ultra-wideband electronic signals at vastly reduced fractional bandwidths. For microwave photonic applications such as rad ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

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

Robust wave transport at subwavelength scale with chiral metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Nadège Sihame Kaïna, Bakhtiyar Orazbayev

Rapid progress in all types of communication systems imposes each time more strict requirements on the communication devices, requiring having the overall device's size as small as possible, but also increasing the demands on the robustness of the transmis ...

IEEE2019