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Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (STI/SB)
LaboratoryRelated publications (1,000)
Sub-kHz-Linewidth External-Cavity Laser (ECL) With Si3N4 Resonator Used as a Tunable Pump for a Kerr Frequency Comb
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 INC2023Programmable Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits
Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Anat Siddharth, Andrey Voloshin, Viacheslav Snigirev, Andrea Bancora, 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 ...
IEEE2023Nonlinear Integrated Photonics for Ranging Applications
This thesis explores the application of recent advances in integrated photonics to the field of light detection and ranging (LiDAR).The progress in photonic integration allows for unprecedented levels of light manipulation on micrometer scales through the ...
EPFL2023Linear and nonlinear applications of miniaturized silicon nitride microresonators
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are the subject of massive interest due to the range of applications they can provide at a huge scale while building on well-established CMOS technologies. One of the critical parameters defining a technology's maturity ...
EPFL2023Integrated 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 ...
SPRINGERNATURE2023Domain Imaging and Switching Dynamics in BaTiO3-Based Photonic Integrated Devices
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 ...
EPFL2023Hybrid 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 ENGINEERING2023Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics
Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Guanhao Huang, Anat Siddharth, Mikhail Churaev, Viacheslav Snigirev, Junqiu Liu
Early works(1) and recent advances in thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator have enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits(2,3), modulators with improved half-wave voltage(4,5), electro-optic frequency combs(6) and on-chip electro-optic devic ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in III-Nitride Doubly Resonant Photonic Crystal Cavities
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 ...
EPFL2023Dissipative Solitons and Switching Waves in Dispersion-Modulated Kerr Cavities
Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alisa Davydova, Miles Henry Anderson, Alexey Tikan
We theoretically and experimentally investigate the formation of dissipative coherent structures in Kerr nonlinear optical microresonators, whose spectrum encompasses an integrated dispersion that exceeds the cavity free-spectral range. We are able to acce ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023