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Silicon nitride electric-field poled microresonator modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Boris Zabelich, Christian André Clément Lafforgue, Edgars Nitiss

Stoichiometric silicon nitride is a highly regarded platform for its favorable attributes, such as low propagation loss and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, making it a prominent choice for various linear and nonlinear ...

2024

Domain Imaging and Switching Dynamics in BaTiO3-Based Photonic Integrated Devices

Jacqueline Geler Kremer

Keeping up with our constantly connected lifestyle of instant messages and video streaming has its repercussions. Data centers have been gobbling up resources becoming a significant share of the energy used worldwide. To keep up with demand and curb the en ...

EPFL2023

Chaotic microcomb-based parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Aleksandr Tusnin, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

The intrinsic random amplitude and phase modulation of 40 distinct lines of a microresonator frequency comb operated in the modulation instability regime are used to realize massively parallel random-modulation continuous-wave light detection and ranging, ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

Layered metals as polarized transparent conductors

Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Matthias Carsten Putzke, Chunyu Guo, Maja Deborah Bachmann

The quest to improve transparent conductors balances two key goals: increasing electrical conductivity and increasing optical transparency. To improve both simultaneously is hindered by the physical limitation that good metals with high electrical conducti ...

Nature Portfolio2023

High density lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Anat Siddharth, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Zihan Li, Junyin Zhang, Zelin Tan

Photonic integrated circuits have the potential to pervade into multiple applications traditionally limited to bulk optics. Of particular interest for new applications are ferroelectrics such as Lithium Niobate, which exhibit a large Pockels effect, but ar ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Linear Electro-optic Effect in Silicon Nitride Waveguides Enabled by Electric-Field Poling

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Boris Zabelich, Edgars Nitiss

Stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4) is one of the most mature integrated photonic platforms for linear and nonlinear optical applications on-chip. However, because it is a centrosymmetric material, second-order nonlinear processes are inherently not ava ...

2022

Gigahertz free-space electro-optic modulators based on Mie resonances

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Sydney Rebecca Mason

Electro-optic modulators are essential for sensing, metrology and telecommunications. Most target fiber applications. Instead, metasurface-based architectures that modulate free-space light at gigahertz (GHz) speeds can boost flat optics technology by micr ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Electric-field poling of silicon nitride waveguides for the linear phase modulation

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Boris Zabelich, Edgars Nitiss

Stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4) constitutes a mature platform for integrated photonics. Its pertinent properties, including wide transparency window from the visible to the mid-IR, low propagation loss, and high third-order nonlinearity, are exploit ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

Bayesian tomography of high-dimensional on-chip biphoton frequency combs with randomized measurements

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu

Owing in large part to the advent of integrated biphoton frequency combs, recent years have witnessed increased attention to quantum information processing in the frequency domain for its inherent high dimensionality and entanglement compatible with fiber- ...

Nature Portfolio2022

High speed, complex wavefront shaping using the digital micro-mirror device

Demetri Psaltis, Ahmed Ayoub

Digital micro-mirror devices (DMDs) have been deployed in many optical applications. As compared to spatial light modulators (SLMs), they are characterized by their much faster refresh rates (full-frame refresh rates up to 32 kHz for binary patterns) compa ...

Nature Portfolio2021