Tobias Kippenberg
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Biography
Tobias J. Kippenberg is Full Professor of Physics at EPFL and leads the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurement. He obtained his BA at the RWTH Aachen, and MA and PhD at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech in Pasadena, USA). From 2005- 2009 he lead an Independent Research Group at the MPI of Quantum Optics, and is at EPFL since. His research interest are the Science and Applications of ultra high Q microcavities; in particular with his research group he discovered chip-scale Kerr frequency comb generation (Nature 2007, Science 2011) and observed radiation pressure backaction effects in microresonators that now developed into the field of cavity optomechanics (Science 2008). Tobias Kippenberg is alumni of the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”. For his invention of “chip-scale frequency combs” he received he Helmholtz Price for Metrology (2009) and the EFTF Young Investigator Award (2010). For his research on cavity optomechanics, he received the EPS Fresnel Prize (2009). In addition he is recipient of the ICO Prize in Optics (2014), the Swiss National Latsis award (2015), the German Wilhelm Klung Award (2015) and ZEISS Research Award (2018). He is fellow of the APS and OSA, and listed since 2014 in the Thomas Reuters highlycited.com in the domain of Physics.EDUCATION
2009: Habilitation (Venia Legendi) in Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2004: PhD, California Institute of Technology (Advisor Professor Kerry Vahala)
2000: Master of Science (Applied Physics), California Institute of Technology
1998: BA in Physics, Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany
1998: BA in Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2013 - present: Full Professor EPFL
2010 - 2012: Associate Professor EPFL
2008 - 2010: Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
2007 - present: Marie Curie Excellent Grant Team Leader, Max Planck Institute of
Quantum Optics (Division of Prof.T.W. Hänsch)
2005 - present: Leader of an Independent Junior Research Group, Max Planck Institute
2005- present: Habilitant (Prof. Hänsch) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU)
2005-2006: Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for the Physics of Information, California Institute of Technology
2000-2004: Graduate Research Assistant, California Institute of Technology
PRIZES AND HONORS:
ZEISS Research Award 2018
Fellow of the APS 2016
Klung-Wilhelmy Prize 2015
Swiss Latsis Prize 2014
Selected Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Physics, 2014/2015
ICO Prize, 2013
EFTF Young Scientist Award (for "invention of microresonator based frequency combs") 2010
Fresnel Prize of the European Physical Society (for contributions to Optomechanics) 2009
Helmholtz Prize for Metrology (for invention of the monolithic frequency comb) 2009
1st Prize winner of the EU Contest for Young Scientists, Helsinki, Finland. Sept. 1996 Jugend forscht
1st Physics Prize at the German National Science Contest May 1996
FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow of the German National Merit Foundation ("Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes") 1998-2002
Member of the Daimler-Chysler-Fellowship-Organization 1998-2002 Dr. Ulderup Fellowship 1999-2000
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Experimental and theoretical research in photonics, notably high Q optical microcavities and their use in cavity quantum optomechanics and frequency metrology
PUBLICATIONS AND OFTEN CITED METRICS*:
>70 Publications in peer reviewed journals
Researcher Google Profile: http://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=PRCbG2kAAAAJ&hl=en
h-Index 54 (Google scholar H: 64, >25,000 citations)
Thomson Reuters/Claravite List of Highly Cited Researchers (2014,2015,2016,2017)
*careful in its use: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201411/backpage.cfm*
KEY PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS:
A. Ghadimi, et al.
Elastic strain engineering for ultra high Q nanomechanical oscillators
Science, (2018)
Trocha, et al.
Ultrafast distance measurements using soliton microresonator frequency combs
Science, Vol. 359 (2018)
[joint work with C. Koos]
Pablo-Marin et al. Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications
Nature (2017)
[joint work with C. Koos]
V. Brasch, et al.
Photonic chip-based optical frequency comb using soliton Cherenkov radiation.
Science, vol. 351, num. 6271 (2015)
Aspelmeyer, M., Kippenberg, T. J. & Marquardt, F. Cavity optomechanics.
Reviews of Modern Physics 86, 1391-1452, (2014)
Wilson, D. J. et al. Measurement and control of a mechanical oscillator at its thermal decoherence rate.
Nature (2014).
Verhagen, E., Deleglise, S., Weis, S., Schliesser, A. & Kippenberg, T. J. Quantum-coherent coupling of a mechanical oscillator to an optical cavity mode.
Nature 482, 63-67 (2012).
Kippenberg, T. J., Holzwarth, R. & Diddams, S. A. Microresonator-based optical frequency combs.
Science 332, 555-559, (2011).
Weis, S. et al. Optomechanically induced transparency.
Science 330, 1520-1523 (2010).
Kippenberg, T. J. & Vahala, K. J. Cavity optomechanics: back-action at the mesoscale.
Science 321, 1172-1176, (2008).
Del'Haye, P. et al. Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator.
Nature (2007)
Schliesser, A., DelHaye, P., Nooshi, N., Vahala, K. & Kippenberg, T. Radiation Pressure Cooling of a Micromechanical Oscillator Using Dynamical Backaction.
Physical Review Letters 97, (2006).
Publications
Infoscience publications
Infoscience
2022
Hierarchical tensile structures with ultralow mechanical dissipation
Nature Communications. 2022-06-02. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 3097. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-30586-z.Perimeter Modes of Nanomechanical Resonators Exhibit Quality Factors Exceeding 10(9) at Room Temperature
Physical Review X. 2022-05-12. Vol. 12, num. 2, p. 021036. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021036.Synthesis of near-diffraction-free orbital-angular-momentum space-time wave packets having a controllable group velocity using a frequency comb
Optics Express. 2022-05-09. Vol. 30, num. 10, p. 16712-16724. DOI : 10.1364/OE.456781.Dissipative Quantum Feedback in Measurements Using a Parametrically Coupled Microcavity
Prx Quantum. 2022-04-13. Vol. 3, num. 2, p. 020309. DOI : 10.1103/PRXQuantum.3.020309.Compact, spatial-mode-interaction-free, ultralow-loss, nonlinear photonic integrated circuits
Communications Physics. 2022-04-07. Vol. 5, num. 1, p. 84. DOI : 10.1038/s42005-022-00851-0.Protected generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in supermodes of coupled optical microresonators
Science Advances. 2022-04-01. Vol. 8, num. 13, p. eabm6982. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.abm6982.Platicon microcomb generation using laser self-injection locking
Nature Communications. 2022-04-01. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 1771. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-29431-0.Strained crystalline nanomechanical resonators with quality factors above 10 billion
Nature Physics. 2022-02-28. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-021-01498-4.Microresonator Dissipative Kerr Solitons Synchronized to an Optoelectronic Oscillator
Physical Review Applied. 2022-02-10. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. 024030. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.17.024030.Polarization selective ultra-broadband wavelength conversion in silicon nitride waveguides
Optics Express. 2022-01-31. Vol. 30, num. 3, p. 4342-4350. DOI : 10.1364/OE.446357.Roadmap on multimode light shaping
Journal Of Optics. 2022-01-01. Vol. 24, num. 1, p. 013001. DOI : 10.1088/2040-8986/ac3a9d.2021
Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation
Nature. 2021-12-23. Vol. 600, num. 7890, p. 653-+. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-021-04197-5.Continuous-wave frequency upconversion with a molecular optomechanical nanocavity
Science. 2021-12-03. Vol. 374, num. 6572, p. 1264-1267. DOI : 10.1126/science.abk3106.Quantum coherent microwave-optical transduction using high-overtone bulk acoustic resonances
Physical Review A. 2021-11-03. Vol. 104, num. 5, p. 052601. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.052601.Magnetic-free silicon nitride integrated optical isolator
Nature Photonics. 2021-10-21. Vol. 15, p. 828–836. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-021-00882-z.Ultrafast optical circuit switching for data centers using integrated soliton microcombs
Nature Communications. 2021-10-15. Vol. 12, num. 1, p. 5867. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-021-25841-8.Entanglement swapping between independent and asynchronous integrated photon-pair sources
Quantum Science And Technology. 2021-10-01. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 045024. DOI : 10.1088/2058-9565/abf599.Coherent terahertz-to-microwave link using electro-optic-modulated Turing rolls
Physical Review A. 2021-08-16. Vol. 104, num. 2, p. 023511. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.023511.Nanofabrication meets open science
Nature Nanotechnology. 2021-07-26. Vol. 16, p. 850–852. DOI : 10.1038/s41565-021-00944-x.Dissipative Kerr solitons in a photonic dimer on both sides of exceptional point
Communications Physics. 2021-07-14. Vol. 4, num. 1, p. 159. DOI : 10.1038/s42005-021-00661-w.Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon
Science. 2021-07-02. Vol. 373, num. 6550, p. 99-+. DOI : 10.1126/science.abh2076.Photonic chip-based resonant supercontinuum via pulse-driven Kerr microresonator solitons
Optica. 2021-06-20. Vol. 8, num. 6, p. 771-779. DOI : 10.1364/OPTICA.403302.Intrinsic luminescence blinking from plasmonic nanojunctions
Nature Communications. 2021-05-21. Vol. 12, num. 1, p. 2731. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-021-22679-y.A cryogenic electro-optic interconnect for superconducting devices
Nature Electronics. 2021-05-10. Vol. 4, num. 5, p. 326–332. DOI : 10.1038/s41928-021-00570-4.Difference-frequency generation in optically poled silicon nitride waveguides
Nanophotonics. 2021-05-01. Vol. 10, num. 7, p. 1923-1930. DOI : 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0080.High-yield, wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss, dispersion-engineered silicon nitride photonic circuits
Nature Communications. 2021-04-16. Vol. 12, num. 1, p. 2236. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-021-21973-z.Low-Loss Integrated Nanophotonic Circuits with Layered Semiconductor Materials
Nano Letters. 2021-04-14. Vol. 21, num. 7, p. 2709-2718. DOI : 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04149.Gain-switched semiconductor laser driven soliton microcombs
Nature Communications. 2021-03-03. Vol. 12, num. 1, p. 1425. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-021-21569-7.Automated wide-ranged finely tunable microwave cavity for narrowband phase noise filtering
Review Of Scientific Instruments. 2021-03-01. Vol. 92, num. 3, p. 034710. DOI : 10.1063/5.0034696.Emergent nonlinear phenomena in a driven dissipative photonic dimer
Nature Physics. 2021-02-15. Vol. 17, p. 604–610. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-020-01159-y.Soliton microcomb based spectral domain optical coherence tomography
Nature Communications. 2021-01-18. Vol. 12, num. 1, p. 427. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-20404-9.Dynamics of soliton self-injection locking in optical microresonators
Nature Communications. 2021-01-11. Vol. 12, num. 1, p. 235. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-20196-y.Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core
Nature. 2021-01-07. Vol. 589, num. 7840, p. 52-+. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-020-03070-1.2020
Thermal intermodulation noise in cavity-based measurements
Optica. 2020-11-20. Vol. 7, num. 11, p. 1609-1616. DOI : 10.1364/OPTICA.402449.Molecular Platform for Frequency Upconversion at the Single-Photon Level
Physical Review X. 2020-09-14. Vol. 10, num. 3, p. 031057. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031057.Nanophotonic supercontinuum-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy
Optica. 2020-09-08. Vol. 7, num. 9, p. 1181-1188. DOI : 10.1364/OPTICA.396542.Frequency division using a soliton-injected semiconductor gain-switched frequency comb
Science Advances. 2020-09-01. Vol. 6, num. 39, p. eaba2807. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.aba2807.Reconfigurable radiofrequency filters based on versatile soliton microcombs
Nature Communications. 2020-09-01. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 4377. 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. Vol. 8, num. 9, p. 1475-1483. DOI : 10.1364/PRJ.396489.Nonlinear states and dynamics in a synthetic frequency dimension
Physical Review A. 2020-08-13. Vol. 102, num. 2, p. 023518. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.023518.Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs
Nature. 2020-07-16. Vol. 583, num. 7816, p. 385-+. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-020-2465-8.Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs
Nature. 2020-06-18. Vol. 582, num. 7812, p. 365-+. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-020-2358-x.Hybrid integrated photonics using bulk acoustic resonators
Nature Communications. 2020-06-17. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 3073. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-16812-6.Controlling free electrons with optical whispering-gallery modes
Nature. 2020-06-04. Vol. 582, num. 7810, p. 46-49. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-020-2320-y.Heteronuclear soliton molecules in optical microresonators
Nature Communications. 2020-05-14. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 2402. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-15720-z.Massively parallel coherent laser ranging using a soliton microcomb
Nature. 2020-05-01. Vol. 581, num. 7807, p. 164-+. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-020-2239-3.Laser Cooling of a Nanomechanical Oscillator to Its Zero-Point Energy
Physical Review Letters. 2020-04-29. Vol. 124, num. 17, p. 173601. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.173601.Performance of chip-scale optical frequency comb generators in coherent WDM communications
Optics Express. 2020-04-27. Vol. 28, num. 9, p. 12897-12910. DOI : 10.1364/OE.380413.Formation and Collision of Multistability-Enabled Composite Dissipative Kerr Solitons
Physical Review X. 2020-04-23. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 021017. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.021017.Photonic microwave generation in the X- and K-band using integrated soliton microcombs
Nature Photonics. 2020-04-20. Vol. 14, p. 486–491. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-020-0617-x.Parallel gas spectroscopy using mid-infrared supercontinuum from a single Si3N4 waveguide
Optics Letters. 2020-04-07. Vol. 45, num. 8, p. 2195-2198. DOI : 10.1364/OL.390086.Kramers Kronig detection of four 20 Gbaud 16-QAM channels using Kerr combs for a shared phase estimation
Optics Letters. 2020-04-01. Vol. 45, num. 7, p. 1794-1797. DOI : 10.1364/OL.387360.Optomechanical generation of a mechanical catlike state by phonon subtraction
Physical Review A. 2020-03-11. Vol. 101, num. 3, p. 033812. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.101.033812.Chip-based soliton microcomb module using a hybrid semiconductor laser
Optics Express. 2020-02-03. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 2714-2721. DOI : 10.1364/OE.28.002714.Ultralow-noise photonic microwave synthesis using a soliton microcomb-based transfer oscillator
Nature Communications. 2020-01-17. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 374. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-14059-4.Fractal-like Mechanical Resonators with a Soft-Clamped Fundamental Mode
Physical Review Letters. 2020-01-16. Vol. 124, num. 2, p. 025502. 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. Vol. 38, num. 2, p. 359-365. DOI : 10.1109/JLT.2019.2959803.Observation of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Silicon Nitride Integrated Waveguides
Physical Review Letters. 2020-01-03. Vol. 124, num. 1, p. 1-7, 013902. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.013902.Integrated gallium phosphide nonlinear photonics
Nature Photonics. 2020-01-01. Vol. 14, num. 1, p. 57-+. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-019-0537-9.Formation Rules and Dynamics of Photoinduced χ(2) Gratings in Silicon Nitride Waveguides
ACS Photonics. 2020. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 147–153. DOI : 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01301.2019
Polychromatic Cherenkov Radiation Induced Group Velocity Symmetry Breaking in Counterpropagating Dissipative Kerr Solitons
Physical Review Letters. 2019-12-17. Vol. 123, num. 25, p. 253902. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.253902.Floquet dynamics in the quantum measurement of mechanical motion
Physical Review A. 2019-11-25. Vol. 100, num. 5, p. 053852. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.053852.Two-Tone Optomechanical Instability and Its Fundamental Implications for Backaction-Evading Measurements
Physical Review X. 2019-10-30. Vol. 9, num. 4, p. 041022. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041022.Dynamics of soliton crystals in optical microresonators
Nature Physics. 2019-10-01. Vol. 15, num. 10, p. 1071-+. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-019-0635-0.Thermally stable access to microresonator solitons via slow pump modulation
Optics Letters. 2019-09-15. Vol. 44, num. 18, p. 4447-4450. DOI : 10.1364/OL.44.004447.In memory of Mikhail Gorodetsky
Nature Photonics. 2019-08-01. Vol. 13, num. 8, p. 506-508. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-019-0490-7.High-rate photon pairs and sequential Time-Bin entanglement with Si3N4 microring resonators
Optics Express. 2019-07-08. Vol. 27, num. 14, p. 19309-19318. DOI : 10.1364/OE.27.019309.Thermorefractive noise in silicon-nitride microresonators
Physical Review A. 2019-06-24. Vol. 99, num. 6, p. 061801. 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. Vol. 9, num. 6, p. 2553-2559. DOI : 10.1364/OME.9.002553.Optical backaction-evading measurement of a mechanical oscillator
Nature Communications. 2019-05-07. Vol. 10, p. 2086. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-10024-3.Mid infrared gas spectroscopy using efficient fiber laser driven photonic chip-based supercontinuum
Nature Communications. 2019-04-04. Vol. 10, p. 1553. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-09590-3.Electrically pumped photonic integrated soliton microcomb (vol 10, 680, 2018)
Nature Communications. 2019-04-03. Vol. 10, p. 1623. 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. Vol. 44, num. 7, p. 1852-1855. DOI : 10.1364/OL.44.001852.Clamp-Tapering Increases the Quality Factor of Stressed Nanobeams
Nano Letters. 2019-04-01. Vol. 19, num. 4, p. 2329-2333. DOI : 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04942.Orthogonally polarized frequency comb generation from a Kerr comb via cross-phase modulation
Optics Letters. 2019-03-15. Vol. 44, num. 6, p. 1472-1475. DOI : 10.1364/OL.44.001472.Generalized dissipation dilution in strained mechanical resonators
Physical Review B. 2019-02-28. Vol. 99, num. 5, p. 054107. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.054107.Electrically pumped photonic integrated soliton microcomb
Nature Communications. 2019-02-08. Vol. 10, p. 680. 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. Vol. 37, num. 2, p. 579-584. DOI : 10.1109/JLT.2019.2895851.Spectral Purification of Microwave Signals with Disciplined Dissipative Kerr Solitons
Physical Review Letters. 2019-01-03. Vol. 122, num. 1, p. 013902. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.013902.A microphotonic astrocomb
Nature Photonics. 2019-01-01. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 31-35. 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. Vol. 44, num. 1, p. 106-109. DOI : 10.1364/OL.44.000106.2018
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. Vol. 43, num. 22, p. 5563-5566. DOI : 10.1364/OL.43.005563.Nonreciprocity in Microwave Optomechanical Circuits
Ieee Antennas And Wireless Propagation Letters. 2018-11-01. Vol. 17, num. 11, p. 1983-1987. DOI : 10.1109/LAWP.2018.2856622.Spatial multiplexing of soliton microcombs
Nature Photonics. 2018-11-01. Vol. 12, num. 11, p. 699-+. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-018-0256-7.Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration
Optica. 2018-10-20. Vol. 5, num. 10, p. 1347-1353. 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. Vol. 382, num. 33, p. 2251-2255. DOI : 10.1016/j.physleta.2017.05.046.Ultra-smooth silicon nitride waveguides based on the Damascene reflow process: fabrication and loss origins
OPTICA. 2018. Vol. 5, num. 7, p. 884-892. DOI : 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000884.Photonic Damascene Process for Low-Loss, High-Confinement Silicon Nitride Waveguides
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 2018. Vol. 24, num. 4, p. 6101411. DOI : 10.1109/JSTQE.2018.2808258.Level attraction in a microwave optomechanical circuit
Physical Review A. 2018. Vol. 98, num. 2, p. 023841. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.023841.Double inverse nanotapers for efficient light coupling to integrated photonic devices
OPTICS LETTERS. 2018. Vol. 43, num. 14, p. 3200-3203. DOI : 10.1364/OL.43.003200.Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators
SCIENCE. 2018. Vol. 361, num. 6402, p. 567-+. DOI : 10.1126/science.aan8083.A maser based on dynamical backaction on microwave light
PHYSICS LETTERS A. 2018. Vol. 382, num. 33, p. 2233-2237. DOI : 10.1016/j.physleta.2017.05.045.Quantum-Limited Directional Amplifiers with Optomechanics
Physical Review Letters. 2018. Vol. 120, num. 2, p. 3601. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.023601.Effects of erbium-doped fiber amplifier induced pump noise on soliton Kerr frequency combs for 64-quadrature amplitude modulation transmission
Optics Letters. 2018. Vol. 43, num. 11, p. 2495. DOI : 10.1364/OL.43.002495.Elastic strain engineering for ultralow mechanical dissipation
Science. 2018. Vol. 360, num. 6390, p. 764-768. DOI : 10.1126/science.aar6939.Highly efficient coupling of crystalline microresonators to integrated photonic waveguides
Optics Letters. 2018. Vol. 43, num. 9, p. 2106. DOI : 10.1364/OL.43.002106.Mid-infrared frequency comb via coherent dispersive wave generation in silicon nitride nanophotonic waveguides
Nature Photonics. 2018. Vol. 12, num. 6, p. 330-335. DOI : 10.1038/s41566-018-0144-1.Excitonic Emission of Monolayer Semiconductors Near-Field Coupled to High-Q Microresonators
Nano Letters. 2018. Vol. 18, num. 5, p. 3138-3146. DOI : 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00749.An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics
Nature. 2018. Vol. 557, num. 7703, p. 81-85. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-018-0065-7.Ultrafast optical ranging using microresonator soliton frequency combs
Science. 2018. Vol. 359, num. 6378, p. 887-891. DOI : 10.1126/science.aao3924.Photonic chip-based soliton frequency combs covering the biological imaging window
Nature Communications. 2018. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. 1146. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-018-03471-x.2017
Intermode Breather Solitons in Optical Microresonators
Physical Review X. 2017. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 041055. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041055.Tunable insertion of multiple lines into a Kerr frequency comb using electro-optical modulators
Optics Letters. 2017. Vol. 42, num. 19, p. 3765-3768. DOI : 10.1364/Ol.42.003765.Large second harmonic generation enhancement in Si3N4 waveguides by all-optically induced quasiphase- matching
Nature Communications. 2017. Vol. 8, p. 1016. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-017-01110-5.Quantum Correlations of Light from a Room-Temperature Mechanical Oscillator
Physical Review X. 2017. Vol. 7, num. 3, p. 031055-1. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.7.031055.Pump-linewidth-tolerant wavelength multicasting using soliton Kerr frequency combs
Optics Letters. 2017. Vol. 42, num. 16, p. 3177-3180. DOI : 10.1364/Ol.42.003177.Octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in Si3N4 microresonators
Optica. 2017. Vol. 4, num. 7, p. 684-691. DOI : 10.1364/OPTICA.4.000684.Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications
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Cavity Opto-Mechanics
Optics Express. 2007-09-10. Vol. 15, num. 25, p. 17172. DOI : 10.1364/OE.15.017172.Selected publications
| T.J. Kippenberg and K.J. Vahala Science 321, 1172 (2008) |
Cavity Optomechanics: Back-Action at the Mesoscale |
| A. Schlie�er, R. Rivi�re, G. Anetsberger, O. Arcizet, and T.J. Kippenberg Nature Physics 4, 415 (2008) |
Resolved Sideband Cooling of a Micromechanical Oscillator |
| P. Del'Haye, A. Schlie�er, O. Arcizet, T. Wilken, R. Holzwarth, and T.J. Kippenberg Nature 450, 1214 (2007) |
Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator |
| Wilson-Rae, N. Nooshi, W. Zwerger and T.J. Kippenberg Physical Review Letters 99, 093901 (2007) |
Theory of ground state cooling of a mechanical oscillator using dynamical back-action |
| A. Schlie�er, P. Del'Haye, N. Nooshi, K. J. Vahala and T. J. Kippenberg Physical Review Letters 97, 243905 (2006) |
Radiation pressure cooling of a micromechanical oscillator using dynamical backaction |
| Weis, S. et al. Science 330, 1520-1523, (2010). |
Optomechanically induced transparency |
| Verhagen, E., Deleglise, S., Weis, S., Schliesser, A. & Kippenberg, T. J. Nature 482, 63-67, (2012) |
Quantum-coherent coupling of a mechanical oscillator to an optical cavity mode |
| Aspelmeyer, M., Kippenberg, T. J. & Marquardt Reviews of Modern Physics (2014) |
Cavity optomechanics |
| Wilson, D. J. et al. Nature (2015) |
Measurement and control of a mechanical oscillator at its thermal decoherence rate |
| V. Brasch, M. Geiselmann, T. Herr, G. Lihachev, M. H. P. Pfeiffer, M. L. Gorodetsky and T. J. Kippenberg. Science, vol. 351, num. 6271, p. 357-360, 2015. |
Photonic chip-based optical frequency comb using soliton Cherenkov radiation. |
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