Publications de Anton Lukashchuk

Photonic-electronic integrated circuit-based coherent LiDAR engine

Edoardo Charbon, Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Grigorii Likhachev, Halil Kerim Yildirim, Andrea Bancora, Anton Lukashchuk, Andrey Voloshin

Chip-scale integration is a key enabler for the deployment of photonic technologies. Coherent laser ranging or FMCW LiDAR, a perception technology that benefits from instantaneous velocity and distance detection, eye-safe operation, long-range, and immunit ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Nonlinear Integrated Photonics for Ranging Applications

Anton Lukashchuk

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 ...

EPFL2023

Method and setup for light detection and ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Lukashchuk

A method and a setup for light detection and ranging are disclosed. The setup is configured to carry out the following method: generating signal radiation (S) at multiple signal frequencies (fs) with an optical signal source (1), wherein the signal radiati ...

2023

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

Chaotic microcomb inertia-free parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Stroganov, Anton Lukashchuk

Ever growing pixel acquisition rates in the fields of augmented reality, autonomous driving and robotics have increased interest in solid state beam scanning without moving parts. Modern photonic integrated laser ranging advances towards passive beam steer ...

AIP Publishing2023

Dual chirped microcomb based parallel ranging at megapixel-line rates

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Anton Lukashchuk

Photonic integrated systems can be harnessed for fast and efficient optical telecommunication and metrology technologies. Here the authors develop a dual-soliton microcomb technique for massively parallel coherent laser ranging that requires only a single ...

Nature Portfolio2022

A photonic integrated circuit-based erbium-doped amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Yang Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic integrated circuits but their use remains impractical as a result of insuf ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

320 GHz Analog-to-Digital Converter Exploiting Kerr Soliton Combs and Photonic-Electronic Spectral Stitching

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Viacheslav Snigirev, Grigorii Likhachev, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate a photonic-electronic analog-to-digital converter (ADC) offering a record-high acquisition bandwidth of 320 GHz. The system combines a high-speed electro-optic modulator with a Kerr comb for spectrally sliced coherent detection and is used f ...

IEEE2021

Ultrafast optical circuit switching for data centers using integrated soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anton Lukashchuk

Optical technologies could enable fast and power-efficient networks for data centers. Here, the authors report Si3N4 microcomb based ultrafast photonic switching to provide enhanced performance for data center applications. ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anton Lukashchuk

With the proliferation of ultrahigh-speed mobile networks and internet-connected devices, along with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI)(1), the world is generating exponentially increasing amounts of data that need to be processed in a fast and effic ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021