Femtosecond pulse amplification on a chip

MA Gaafar, M Ludwig, K Wang, T Wildi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Femtosecond laser pulses enable the synthesis of light across the electromagnetic spectrum
and provide access to ultrafast phenomena in physics, biology, and chemistry. Chip …

Pulsed polarized vortex beam enabled by metafiber lasers

C Zhang, L Zhang, H Zhang, B Fu, J Wang, M Qiu - PhotoniX, 2024 - Springer
Pulsed polarized vortex beams, a special form of structured light, are generated by tailoring
the light beam spatiotemporally and witness the growing application demands in nonlinear …

Watt-class silicon photonics-based optical high-power amplifier

N Singh, J Lorenzen, K Wang, MA Gaafar… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
High-power amplifiers are critical components in optical systems spanning from long-range
optical sensing and optical communication systems to micromachining and medical surgery …

Sub-2W tunable laser based on silicon photonics power amplifier

N Singh, J Lorenzen, M Kilinc, K Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2025 - nature.com
High-power tunable lasers are intensely pursued due to their vast application potential such
as in telecom, ranging, and molecular sensing. Integrated photonics, however, is usually …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in Soliton Crystal Microcombs

Z Liu, H Zhang, Y Song, X Zhu, CE Murray, Y Bai… - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Soliton crystal microcombs, as a new type of Kerr frequency comb, offer advantages such as
higher energy conversion efficiency and a simpler generation mechanism compared to …

GeS2 Nanosheets as Saturable Absorbers for High Signal-to-Noise Ratio in an L-Band Ultrafast Pulsed Laser

X Kan, Z Yang, B Liu, S Li, G Ye, Z Xie… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recently, two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted increasing attention as promising
saturable absorbers (SAs) due to their excellent optoelectronic properties, which enable …

High on-chip gain spiral Al2O3:Er3+ waveguide amplifiers

DB Bonneville, CE Osornio-Martinez, M Dijkstra… - Optics express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate reactively sputtered Al_2O_3: Er^ 3+ waveguide amplifiers with an erbium
concentration of 3.9× 10^ 20 ions/cm^ 3, capable of achieving over 30 dB small signal net …

Silicon nitride grating coupler with suppressed waveguide backreflection and adaptive grate design

I Ghannam, F Merget, J Witzens - Optics Letters, 2025 - opg.optica.org
We present both experimental and simulation results for a fully etched, C-band GC
fabricated in an 800? nm silicon nitride platform that significantly reduces backreflections …

Watt-class CMOS-compatible optical high power amplifier

N Singh, J Lorenzen, K Wang, M Gaafar, M Sinobad… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
High power amplifiers are critical components in optical systems spanning from long range
optical sensing and optical communication systems to micromachining and medical surgery …

Applications of Nonlinear Photonics to Novel Integrated Lasers

AM Bishop - 2024 - search.proquest.com
In the past two decades, integrated photonics and nonlinear optics have flourished
alongside one another. New developments in materials science and fabrication …