Publications by Nikolai Kuznetsov

An Ultra-Broadband Gallium Phosphide Optical Parametric Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Alberto Nardi

Optical parametric amplification [1], which utilizes material nonlinearities, has long been considered one approach to increase channel capacity, but the technical complexity of systems using highly nonlinear fibers or bulk waveguides restricts their pract ...

IEEE2025

Coherent Dissipative Structures in Arbitrary Dispersion-Engineered Gallium Phosphide Fabry-Perot Resonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

The diversity of experimentally observed nonlinear coherent and partially coherent optical structures, including breathing, zero-dispersion, and switching wave states in driven optical microresonators, is mainly provided by cavity dispersion engineering. R ...

IEEE2025

Frequency Conversion in Periodically Poled Thin-Film Lithium Tantalate Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Zihan Li

Second-order optical nonlinear processes, such as second harmonic generation, difference-frequency generation, or sum-frequency generation, find numerous applications in laser science, quantum technology, sensing, photonic computing, and many other areas. ...

IEEE2025

An ultra-broadband photonic-chip-based parametric amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Alberto Nardi

Optical amplification, crucial for modern communication, primarily relies on erbium-doped fibre amplifiers (EDFAs)1,2. Yet, EDFAs only cover a portion of the low-loss spectrum of optical fibres. This has motivated the development of amplifiers operating be ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Travelling-Wave Optical Parametric Amplification in Gallium Phosphide Integrated Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Alberto Nardi

We demonstrate integrated optical continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifiers that significantly surpass the amplification bandwidth of traditional Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers. Using a 5.55-cm-long integrated gallium phosphide waveguide, we achieve ...

SPIE2024

Integrated chirped photonic-crystal cavities in gallium phosphide for broadband soliton generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Miles Henry Anderson

Chirped mirrors have underpinned advances in ultra-fast lasers based on bulk optics but have yet to be fully exploited in integrated photonics, where they could provide a means to engineer otherwise unattainable dispersion profiles for a range of nonlinear ...

2024

An Integrated Gallium Phosphide Optical Parametric Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Alberto Nardi

Optical parametric amplification is a promising alternative to traditional erbium-doped amplifiers, offering unidirectional, low-noise, and broadband amplification. Here we present an integrated continuous-traveling-wave parametric amplifier that surpasses ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Wafer-Scale Processing of Ultra-Low-Loss Gallium Phosphide Integrated Photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Nikolai Kuznetsov

We demonstrate wafer-scale processing of integrated photonic circuits made of gallium phosphide, with propagation losses in waveguides as low as 0.40 dB/cm, and establish new record-high quality factors with resonators on this material platform. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Ultrabroadband Integrated Triply Resonant Electro-Optic Frequency Comb in Lithium Tantalate

Tobias Kippenberg, Jianqi Hu, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang

We demonstrated an integrated electro-optic frequency comb generator with 450nm span and 29.6GHz spacing, entirely covering optical telecom E-, S-, C-, L-, and U-bands, via monolithic co-integration of microwave and photonics resonators on thin-film lithiu ...

Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)2024

Broadband and high-gain traveling-wave optical parametric amplification in a gallium phosphide photonic integrated circuit

Tobias Kippenberg, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Alberto Nardi

We demonstrate continuous-wave parametric amplifier w ith a 1 40 n m gain bandwidth spanning the optical S,C, and L-bands and up to 25 dB off-chip net-gain in a dispersion engineered gallium phosphide-on-insulator (GaPOI) waveguide with up to 160 mW output ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024