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Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li, Alisa Davydova, Junyin Zhang, Yang Chen, Xi Wang, Kai Huang

Electro-optical photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) have demonstrated the vast capabilities of materials with a high Pockels coefficient1,2. They enable linear and high-speed modulators operating at complementary metal–oxi ...

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Sub-kHz-Linewidth External-Cavity Laser (ECL) With Si3N4 Resonator Used as a Tunable Pump for a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu

Combining optical gain in direct-bandgap III-V materials with tunable optical feedback offered by advanced photonic integrated circuits is key to chip-scale external-cavity lasers (ECL), offering wideband tunability along with low optical linewidths. Exter ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Comparison of Two in Pixel Source Follower Schemes for Deep Subelectron Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone, Andrea Kraxner, Minhao Yang, Daniel Mathias Bold

This paper compares two in-pixel source follower stage designs for low noise CMOS image sensors embedded both on a same 5 mm by 5 mm chip fabricated in a 180 nm CIS process. The presented chip embeds two pixel variants, one based on a body-effect-canceled ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...

EPFL2021

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Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser lines for terabit-per-second transceivers, parallel coherent light detection ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021

Resource Trade-Offs in Circuits and Systems: from Neurotechnology to Communications

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This thesis aims to explore and exploit trade-offs in integrated circuits and systems to overcome the fundamental bottlenecks faced by future data acquisition and communication systems. Specifically, we target the emerging implantable neurotechnology and t ...

EPFL2021

Broadband electrostatic force microscopy can be used to non-destructively image n-type and p-type dopant layers in silicon devices with a lateral resolution of 10 nm and a vertical resolution of 0.5 nm. Integrated circuits and certain silicon-based quantum ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Recently, microresonator-based dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs ("soliton microcomb") have emerged as miniaturized optical frequency combs. So far, soliton microcombs have been realized in many CMOS-compatible material platforms including silico ...

EPFL2020

Microresonators are fundamental building blocks of any photonic integrated circuit, as they can be used as filters, modulators, sensors, and to enhance light emission. If these resonators are suspended and are free to oscillate, we can exploit the interact ...

EPFL2019