Publications by Andrey Voloshin

Ultrafast Tunable Photonic Integrated Extended-DBR Pockels Laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu, Andrey Voloshin

Hybrid photonic integrated lasers have revolutionized laser technology by combining the scalable manufacturing of simple laser diodes with high-performance features such as frequency stability, opticallinewidth, and tuning linearity [1], traditionally only ...

IEEE2025

Ultrafast tunable photonic-integrated extended-DBR Pockels laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu, Andrey Voloshin

Frequency-agile lasers that can simultaneously feature low noise characteristics and fast mode-hop-free frequency tuning are keystone components for applications ranging from LiDAR and distributed sensing to communication and quantum information processing ...

Nature Publishing Group2025

C- and L-band tunable integrated Erbium lasers via scalable manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Grigorii Likhachev, Andrey Voloshin

We demonstrate an integrated Erbium-based tunable laser using wafer-scale fabrication and ion implantation of silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits. We achieve single-frequency lasing tunable from 1530 nm to 1621 nm covering nearly the entire optica ...

Optica Publishing Group2025

Piezo-Mems Tunable Ultra Low-Noise Laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Anat Siddharth, Andrea Bancora, Andrey Voloshin, Vladimir Shadymov

In this paper, we present the first ultra-low-noise, self-injection locked (SIL) laser with frequency agility based on the monolithic integration of a low-loss silicon nitride (Si3N4) photonic spiral cavity with an aluminum nitride (AlN) actuator. The self ...

IEEE2025

Piezoelectric actuation for integrated photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev, Andrea Bancora, Andrey Voloshin, Vladimir Shadymov

Recent decades have seen significant advancements in integrated photonics, driven by improvements in nanofabrication technology. This field has been developed from integrated semiconductor lasers and low-loss waveguides to optical modulators, enabling the ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

A fully hybrid integrated erbium-based laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Andrea Bancora, Andrey Voloshin

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 Publishing Group2024

Piezoelectrically tunable, narrow linewidth photonic integrated extended-DBR lasers

Tobias Kippenberg, Anat Siddharth, Zheru Qiu, Andrea Bancora, Junyin Zhang, Andrey Voloshin

Recent advancements in ultra-low-loss silicon nitride (Si3N4)-based photonic integrated circuits have surpassed fiber lasers in coherence and frequency agility. However, high manufacturing costs of DFB and precise control requirements, as required for self ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Low-Phase-Noise Frequency-Agile Hybrid Integrated Laser Offering Highly Linear Tuning for FMCW LiDAR

Tobias Kippenberg, Andrey Voloshin

We demonstrate piezo-tunable hybrid integrated lasers offering linewidths below 100 Hz along with highly linear and fast frequency tuning. For a tuning range of 1 GHz, residual nonlinearities are below 0.07 %, allowing for 5 cm ranging precision in an FMCW ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Photonic-electronic integrated circuit-based coherent LiDAR engine

Edoardo Charbon, Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Grigorii Likhachev, Halil Kerim Yildirim, Andrea Bancora, Anton Lukashchuk, Andrey Voloshin

Chip-scale integration is a key enabler for the deployment of photonic technologies. Coherent laser ranging or FMCW LiDAR, a perception technology that benefits from instantaneous velocity and distance detection, eye-safe operation, long-range, and immunit ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Frequency agile photonic integrated external cavity laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev, Andrea Bancora, Andrey Voloshin, Vladimir Shadymov

We demonstrate a Vernier ring laser with linear frequency tuning of 1.5 GHz at 100 kHz chirp rate and wavelength switching with 7 ns rise time and 75 nW power consumption using Si3N4 photonic chip with integrated PZT actuators. ...

Optical Society of America2023