Publications by Michail Zervas

Up to 50 dB Extinction in Broadband Single-Stage Thermo-Optic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers for Programmable Low-Loss Silicon Nitride Photonic Circuits

Michail Zervas, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

We demonstrate single-stage thermo-optic Si3N4 interferometers with (46.1 +/- 2.5) dB average extinction ratio over 1460-1640 nm (approximate to 50x of typical devices). We analyze performance requirements for creating reconfigurable high-quality-factor re ...

IEEE2021

Towards integrated photonic interposers for processing octave-spanning microresonator frequency combs

Davide Sacchetto, Michail Zervas, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

Microcombs-optical frequency combs generated in microresonators-have advanced tremendously in the past decade, and are advantageous for applications in frequency metrology, navigation, spectroscopy, telecommunications, and microwave photonics. Crucially, m ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Hybrid integrated photonics using bulk acoustic resonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Michail Zervas, Junqiu Liu

Integrated photonic devices based on Si3N4 waveguides allow for the exploitation of nonlinear frequency conversion, exhibit low propagation loss, and have led to advances in compact atomic clocks, ultrafast ranging, and spectroscopy. Yet, the lack of Pocke ...

Nature Research2020

Integrated Photonic Interposers for Processing Octave-Spanning Microresonator Frequency Combs

Davide Sacchetto, Michail Zervas, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

We demonstrate multiple silicon-nitride nanophotonic elements for on-chip processing of octave-spanning microresonator frequency combs. Dichroic filters, multimode interferometers, and tunable add-drop microring filters are shown along with soliton microco ...

IEEE2020

Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration

Tobias Kippenberg, Michail Zervas, Bahareh Ghadiani, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anton Lukashchuk, Nils Johan Engelsen

Using the photonic Damascene reflow process, we present single soliton formation in 99-GHz-FSR Si3N4 microresonators of Q-factor exceeding 15 x 10(6), with less than 10 mW optical power. ...

IEEE2019

Highly efficient coupling of crystalline microresonators to integrated photonic waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Michail Zervas, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, John David Jost

Crystalline optical whispering gallery mode resonators made from alkaline earth fluorides can achieve exceptionally large optical finesse, and are used in a variety of applications, from frequency stabilization and narrow linewidth lasers, to low-noise mic ...

2018

Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration

Tobias Kippenberg, Michail Zervas, Bahareh Ghadiani, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arslan Sajid Raja, Nils Johan Engelsen, Botao Du

The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators has provided a route to compact frequency combs of high repetition rate, which have already been employed for optical frequency synthesizers, ultrafast ranging, coherent telecommunicati ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2018

Double inverse nanotapers for efficient light coupling to integrated photonic devices

Tobias Kippenberg, Michail Zervas, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann, Junqiu Liu, Hairun Guo, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arslan Sajid Raja, Clemens Herkommer

2018

Photonic Damascene Process for Low-Loss, High-Confinement Silicon Nitride Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Michail Zervas, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Clemens Herkommer

2018

Ultralow-Power Photonic Chip-Based Soliton Frequency Combs

Tobias Kippenberg, Michail Zervas, Bahareh Ghadiani, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arslan Sajid Raja, Nils Johan Engelsen

The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators allow compact high repetition rate frequency combs. A particularly promising platform is photonic integrated Si3N4 microresonators. Yet to date, soliton formation in Si3N4 microresonato ...

IEEE2018