Publications by Andrea Bancora

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

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

Programmable Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits

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

Silicon Nitride (Si3N4) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as core technology in a variety of applications ranging from LIDAR to quantum control and computing. However, the need for high-speed, low-voltage tuning and modulation has been a lon ...

IEEE2023

Topological lattices realized in superconducting circuit optomechanics

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Andrea Bancora, Shingo Kono, Tatiana Vovk

Cavity optomechanics enables the control of mechanical motion through the radiation-pressure interaction(1), and has contributed to the quantum control of engineered mechanical systems ranging from kilogramme-scale Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave O ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022