Publications related to All-optically induced quasi phase matching in SiN waveguides for second harmonic generation enhancement

3D diffractive optics for linear interconnects and nonlinear processing

The optical domain presents potential avenues for enhancing both computing and communication due to its inherent properties of bandwidth, parallelism, and energy efficiency. This research focuses on harnessing 3-Dimensional (3D) diffractive optics for nove ...

EPFL2024

Photoinduced Second-Order Nonlinearities in Centrosymmetric Media

Ozan Yakar

The interaction of light and matter enables nonlinear frequency conversion and the creation of coherent currents. The optical control of electric currents is of fundamental relevance and prominent research focus in the last decades. These photocurrents ena ...

EPFL2024

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

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Majed Chergui

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense, coherent and tunable. They are enabling a broad range of nonlinear optical and s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in III-Nitride Doubly Resonant Photonic Crystal Cavities

Jun Wang

Nonlinear frequency conversion processes, such as second-harmonic generation (SHG) and spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), are essential in many applications, including the generation of entangled photons. It's desirable to enhance these process ...

EPFL2023

Hybrid lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride platform for mid-IR supercontinuum generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev

Integrated optics has shown itself very convenient for exploiting nonlinear processes as it results in high confinement factor, freedom of dispersion engineering and compactness. However, the choice of materials is crucial for the development of nonlinear ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2023

Methods for acute and long-term imaging of the ventral nerve cord in behaving adult Drosophila

Laura Joan Hermans

Understanding how neural circuits remodel and adapt to animal behavior is a central theme in the field of Neuroscience. One strategy to reach this goal is to repeatedly record the same animal's neural circuits and observe how they adapt when facing differe ...

EPFL2022

All-optical switching in epsilon-near-zero asymmetric directional coupler

Jiaye Wu, Qian Li

We propose an all-optical switch based on an asymmetric directional coupler structure with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) layer. The nonlinear optical properties the of ENZ layer are analyzed by hot-electron dynamics process, and the all-optical operating perform ...

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

Integration of MEMS in Silicon Photonics

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

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