Tobias Kippenberg

tobias.kippenberg@epfl.ch +41 21 693 44 28 http://k-lab.epfl.ch/
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PH D3 355 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
CH-1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 44 28
+41 21 693 44 52
Local: PH D3 355
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Web site: Site web: https://k-lab.epfl.ch/
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Formation
Habilitation
Quantum Optics
LMU
2009
Doctor of Philosophy
California Institute of Technology
2004
Master of Science
California Institute of Technology
2000
B.A.
Physics
Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany
1998
B.A.
Electrical Engineering
Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany
1998
Publications
Publications Infoscience
Versatile shaping of optical frequency combs and applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10435.Thermal intermodulation noise in cavity-based measurements
Optica. 2020-11-20. DOI : 10.1364/OPTICA.402449.Molecular Platform for Frequency Upconversion at the Single-Photon Level
Physical Review X. 2020-09-14. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031057.Nanophotonic supercontinuum-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy
Optica. 2020-09-08. DOI : 10.1364/OPTICA.396542.Reconfigurable radiofrequency filters based on versatile soliton microcombs
Nature Communications. 2020-09-01. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-18215-z.Broadband quasi-phase-matching in dispersion-engineered all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides
Photonics Research. 2020-09-01. DOI : 10.1364/PRJ.396489.Nonlinear states and dynamics in a synthetic frequency dimension
Physical Review A. 2020-08-13. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.023518.Low-loss SiN waveguides for efficient and broadly tunable nonlinear frequency conversion
2020-07-27. Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics 2020, Washington, DC United States, July 13-16, 2021. p. JTu3A.4. DOI : 10.1364/IPRSN.2020.JTu3A.4.Observation of stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon nitride integrated waveguides
2020-05-10. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Online, May 10-15, 2020. p. Paper STu4O.1.Parallel gas spectroscopy using mid-infrared supercontinuum from a single Si3N4 waveguide
Optics Letters. 2020-04-07. DOI : 10.1364/OL.390086.Optomechanical generation of a mechanical catlike state by phonon subtraction
Physical Review A. 2020-03-11. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.101.033812.Ultralow-noise photonic microwave synthesis using a soliton microcomb-based transfer oscillator
Nature Communications. 2020-01-17. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-14059-4.Fractal-like Mechanical Resonators with a Soft-Clamped Fundamental Mode
Physical Review Letters. 2020-01-16. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.025502.Demonstration of Tunable Optical Aggregation of QPSK to 16-QAM Over Optically Generated Nyquist Pulse Trains Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb
Journal Of Lightwave Technology. 2020-01-15. DOI : 10.1109/JLT.2019.2959803.Observation of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Silicon Nitride Integrated Waveguides
Physical Review Letters. 2020-01-03. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.013902.Mechanical resonators with high dissipation dilution in precision and quantum measurements
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10421.Physics of optically driven nanojunctions
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10203.Silicon Nitride Integrated Nonlinear Photonics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10343.Quantum Measurement of Mechanical Motion close to the Standard Quantum Limit
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10222.Generating optical pulses via a soliton state of an optical microresonator coupled with a chip based semiconductor laser
WO2020057716 . 2020.Integrated gallium phosphide nonlinear photonics
Nature Photonics. 2020-01-01. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-019-0537-9.Dynamics and Applications of Dissipative Kerr Solitons
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10121.Polychromatic Cherenkov Radiation Induced Group Velocity Symmetry Breaking in Counterpropagating Dissipative Kerr Solitons
Physical Review Letters. 2019-12-17. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.253902.Formation Rules and Dynamics of Photoinduced χ(2) Gratings in Silicon Nitride Waveguides
ACS Photonics. 2019-12-09. DOI : 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01301.Floquet dynamics in the quantum measurement of mechanical motion
Physical Review A. 2019-11-25. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.053852.Two-Tone Optomechanical Instability and Its Fundamental Implications for Backaction-Evading Measurements
Physical Review X. 2019-10-30. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041022.Optically Probed Time Dynamics of χ(2) Grating Inscription in SiN Waveguides
2019-10-17. 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), Munich, Germany, June 23-27, 2019. p. 1-1. DOI : 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8871462.Nanophotonic Supercontinuum-Based Mid-Infrared Dual-Comb Spectroscopy
2019-10-03. 2019 Joint Conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF/IFC), Orlando, FL, USA, 14-18 April 2019. p. 1-2. DOI : 10.1109/FCS.2019.8856141.Dynamics of soliton crystals in optical microresonators
Nature Physics. 2019-10-01. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-019-0635-0.Thermally stable access to microresonator solitons via slow pump modulation
Optics Letters. 2019-09-15. DOI : 10.1364/OL.44.004447.In memory of Mikhail Gorodetsky
2019-08-01.High-rate photon pairs and sequential Time-Bin entanglement with Si3N4 microring resonators
Optics Express. 2019-07-08. DOI : 10.1364/OE.27.019309.Thermorefractive noise in silicon-nitride microresonators
Physical Review A. 2019-06-24. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.061801.Visible-near-middle infrared spanning supercontinuum generation in a silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguide
Optical Materials Express. 2019-06-01. DOI : 10.1364/OME.9.002553.Gas spectroscopy using low threshold mid-infrared radiation generated in Si3N4 waveguides
2019-05-10. CLEO (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics), San Jose, California, United States, May 5-10, 2019. DOI : 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2019.STh1F.4.Optical backaction-evading measurement of a mechanical oscillator
Nature Communications. 2019-05-07. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-10024-3.Nanophotonic supercontinuum based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy
2019-05-05. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, California, USA, 5–10 May 2019. p. STh1G.7. DOI : 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2019.STh1G.7.Mid infrared gas spectroscopy using efficient fiber laser driven photonic chip-based supercontinuum
Nature Communications. 2019-04-04. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-09590-3.Electrically pumped photonic integrated soliton microcomb (vol 10, 680, 2018)
Nature Communications. 2019-04-03. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-09529-8.Reconfigurable optical generation of nine Nyquist WDM channels with sinc-shaped temporal pulse trains using a single microresonator-based Kerr frequency comb
Optics Letters. 2019-04-01. DOI : 10.1364/OL.44.001852.Clamp-Tapering Increases the Quality Factor of Stressed Nanobeams
Nano Letters. 2019-04-01. DOI : 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04942.Orthogonally polarized frequency comb generation from a Kerr comb via cross-phase modulation
Optics Letters. 2019-03-15. DOI : 10.1364/OL.44.001472.Photonic-chip-based frequency combs
Nature Photonics. 2019-03-01. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-019-0358-x.Generalized dissipation dilution in strained mechanical resonators
Physical Review B. 2019-02-28. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.054107.Electrically pumped photonic integrated soliton microcomb
Nature Communications. 2019-02-08. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-08498-2.Demonstration of Multiple Kerr-Frequency-Comb Generation Using Different Lines From Another Kerr Comb Located Up To 50 km Away
Journal Of Lightwave Technology. 2019-01-15. DOI : 10.1109/JLT.2019.2895851.Spectral Purification of Microwave Signals with Disciplined Dissipative Kerr Solitons
Physical Review Letters. 2019-01-03. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.013902.Optical coupling device
EP3769133 ; WO2019180655 . 2019.Multiple soliton comb generation method and device
US10923874 ; US2019312402 . 2019.Experimental demonstration of three-fold wavelength multicasting of a 64-QAM 120 Gbit/s data channel using a Kerr frequency comb and nonlinear wave mixing
2019-01-01. Conference on Next-Generation Optical Communication - Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems VIII, San Francisco, CA, Feb 04-07, 2019. p. 109470N. DOI : 10.1117/12.2514881.Demonstration of Kramers-Kronig Detection of Four 20-Gbaud 16-QAM Channels after 50-km Transmission Using Kerr Combs to Perform Shared Phase Estimation
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Integrated Si3N4 Soliton Microcomb Driven by a Compact Ultra-low-noise Laser
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Thermo-refractive noise in silicon nitride microresonators
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Heteronuclear Soliton Molecules in Optical Microresonators
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Broadband Efficient Soliton Microcombs in Pulse-Driven Photonic Microresonators
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Kerr Comb-based Transfer Oscillator for Ultralow Noise Photonic Microwave Synthesis
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Ultralow Dissipation Mechanical Resonators for Quantum Optomechanics
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Electrically Driven Ultra-compact Photonic Integrated Soliton Microcomb
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Perfect soliton crystals in optical microresonators
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Photonic Integrated K-Band Microwave Oscillator Based on Silicon Nitride Soliton Microcomb
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Dual Comb Generation in a Symmetrically Driven Crystalline Microresonator
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Chipscale soliton microcombs
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Advanced dispersion engineering of dispersive waves in Si3N4 microresonators
2019-01-01. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 05-10, 2019.Dual comb generation in a monochromatically driven crystalline microresonator
2019-01-01. Conference on Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XXI, San Francisco, CA, Feb 04-07, 2019. p. 109040J. DOI : 10.1117/12.2513888.Multiplexing Soliton-Combs in Optical Microresonators
2019-01-01. Conference on Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XXI, San Francisco, CA, Feb 04-07, 2019. p. 109040O. DOI : 10.1117/12.2506498.Electrically driven photonic integrated soliton microcomb
2019-01-01. Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar 03-07, 2019.Demonstration of Tunable and Reconfigurable Optical Nyquist Channel Aggregation of QPSK-to-16QAM and BPSK-to-4PAM Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb
2019-01-01. Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar 03-07, 2019.Experimental Generation and Time Multiplexing of Data-Carrying Nyquist Sinc Shaped Channels from a Single Microresonator-based Kerr Frequency Comb
2019-01-01. Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar 03-07, 2019.Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration
2019-01-01. Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar 03-07, 2019.Physics of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators and Application to Frequency Synthesis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9109.Crystalline materials for microresonator-based quantum optics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9127.Integrated Gallium Phosphide Photonics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9250.Multimode microwave circuit optomechanics as a platform to study coupled quantum harmonic oscillators
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9217.A microphotonic astrocomb
Nature Photonics. 2019-01-01. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-018-0309-y.Second- and third-order nonlinear wavelength conversion in an all-optically poled Si3N4 waveguide
Optics Letters. 2019-01-01. DOI : 10.1364/OL.44.000106.From the Lugiato-Lefever equation to microresonator-based soliton Kerr frequency combs
Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences. 2018-12-28. DOI : 10.1098/rsta.2018.0113.Scalable and reconfigurable optical tapped-delay-line for multichannel equalization and correlation using nonlinear wave mixing and a Kerr frequency comb
Optics Letters. 2018-11-15. DOI : 10.1364/OL.43.005563.Nonreciprocity in Microwave Optomechanical Circuits
Ieee Antennas And Wireless Propagation Letters. 2018-11-01. DOI : 10.1109/LAWP.2018.2856622.Spatial multiplexing of soliton microcombs
Nature Photonics. 2018-11-01. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-018-0256-7.Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration
Optica. 2018-10-20. DOI : 10.1364/OPTICA.5.001347.Evidence for structural damping in a high-stress silicon nitride nanobeam and its implications for quantum optomechanics
Physics Letters A. 2018-08-25. DOI : 10.1016/j.physleta.2017.05.046.Observation of Second Harmonic and Sum Frequency in an Optically Poled Si3N4 Waveguide
2018-05-16. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, California, United States, May 13-18, 2018. p. SF2A.2. DOI : 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2018.SF2A.2.Signal processing apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving coherent parallel optical signals
US10651820 ; US2018083599 . 2018.Single and multiple soliton generation device and method
US10270529 ; US2018205463 . 2018.Scalable and Reconfigurable Optical Tap-Delay-Line for Multichannel Equalization and Correlation of 20-Gbaud QPSK signals Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Microresonator Kerr Frequency Comb
2018-01-01. 31st Annual IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) of the IEEE-Photonics-Society, Reston, VA, Sep 30-Oct 04, 2018.Backaction-evading measurement of mechanical motion in the optical domain
2018-01-01. International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 29-Aug 02, 2018. p. 26-27.Ultralow-Power Photonic Chip-Based Soliton Frequency Combs
2018-01-01. International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 29-Aug 02, 2018. p. 195-196.Nonreciprocal reconfigurable microwave optomechanical circuit
2018-01-01. International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 29-Aug 02, 2018. p. 151-152.Elastic strain engineering for ultralow mechanical dissipation
2018-01-01. International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 29-Aug 02, 2018. p. 143-144.Quantum Motional Sideband Asymmetry in the Presence of Kerr-type Nonlinearities
2018-01-01. International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 29-Aug 02, 2018. p. 22-23.Semiconductor laser chip stabilization by Si3N4 microresonator and Kerr comb generation
2018-01-01. International Conference on Laser Optics (ICLO), St Petersburg, RUSSIA, Jun 04-08, 2018. p. 443-443.Spatially-Multiplexed Solitons in Optical Microresonators
2018-01-01. International Conference on Laser Optics (ICLO), St Petersburg, RUSSIA, Jun 04-08, 2018. p. 318-318.Distributed analyses using distinct classes of Brillouin scatterings in optical fibres
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9022.Ultra-coherent nano-mechanical resonators for quantum optomechanics at room temperature
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8967.Ultra-smooth silicon nitride waveguides based on the Damascene reflow process: fabrication and loss origins
OPTICA. 2018. DOI : 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000884.Port: A Piezoelectric Optical Resonance Tuner
2018. 31st IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Belfast, NORTH IRELAND, Jan 21-25, 2018. p. 739-742. DOI : 10.1109/MEMSYS.2018.8346661.Photonic Damascene Process for Low-Loss, High-Confinement Silicon Nitride Waveguides
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS. 2018. DOI : 10.1109/JSTQE.2018.2808258.Level attraction in a microwave optomechanical circuit
PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 2018. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.023841.Double inverse nanotapers for efficient light coupling to integrated photonic devices
OPTICS LETTERS. 2018. DOI : 10.1364/OL.43.003200.Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators
SCIENCE. 2018. DOI : 10.1126/science.aan8083.Enseignement & Phd
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