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Hybrid silicon photonics for terahertz applications
This talk will highlight opportunities for terahertz science and technology from nonlinear integrated photonic circuits by exploring waveguides, resonators and terahertz antennas. Their present and future applications in metrology, emission and waveform co ...
Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2024Single-Mode Laser in the Telecom Range by Deterministic Amplification of the Topological Interface Mode
Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Chang Won Lee
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 ...
Washington2024Emergent nonlinear dynamics in photonic lattices
Since the discovery of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators, significant progress has been made in the understanding of the underlying physical principles from the fundamental side and generation of broadband coherent optical Kerr frequency ...
EPFL2024A fully hybrid integrated erbium-based laser
Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Andrey Voloshin, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Andrea Bancora, Yang Liu
Erbium-doped fibre lasers exhibit high coherence and low noise as required for fibre-optic sensing, gyroscopes, LiDAR and optical frequency metrology. Endowing erbium-based gain in photonic integrated circuits can provide a basis for miniaturizing low-nois ...
Nature Portfolio2024Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics
Quantum optics studies how photons interact with other forms of matter, the understanding of which was crucial for the development of quantum mechanics as a whole. Starting from the photoelectric effect, the quantum property of light has led to the develop ...
EPFL2024Generation of entangled photon pairs from a silicon bichromatic photonic crystal cavity
Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi, Thanavorn Poempool
Integrated quantum photonics leverages the on-chip generation of nonclassical states of light to realize key functionalities of quantum devices. Typically, the generation of such nonclassical states relies on whispering gallery mode resonators, such as int ...
Melville2024Thermo-optic epsilon-near-zero effects
Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Jiaye Wu, Qian Li
Nonlinear epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nanodevices featuring vanishing permittivity and CMOS-compatibility are attractive solutions for large-scale-integrated systems-on-chips. Such confined systems with unavoidable heat generation impose critical challenges fo ...
Berlin2024High-κ Wide-Gap Layered Dielectric for Two-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures
Andras Kis, Edoardo Lopriore, Asmund Kjellegaard Ottesen, Gabriele Pasquale
van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional materials have unveiled frontiers in condensed matter physics, unlocking unexplored possibilities in electronic and photonic device applications. However, the investigation of wide-gap, high-kappa layered d ...
2024Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization
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, ...
EPFL2024All-Dielectric Nanophotonic via Glass Fluid Instabilities
In this thesis work, we propose to exploit an innovative micro/nano-fabrication process, based on controlled fluid instabilities of a thin viscous film of chalcogenide glass. Amorphous selenium and arsenic triselenide were used in this thesis work, and com ...
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