FEMTOSECOND LASER ON A CHIP

Project Information

FEMTOCHIP

Grant agreement ID: 965124

DOI

10.3030/965124

Project closed

EC signature date 27 January 2021

Start date 1 March 2021

End date 31 August 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost

€ 3 418 525,00

EU contribution

€ 3 418 525,00

Coordinated by

DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (5)

Demonstration of delay line with > 1 m length
Characterising MLL at 1.6 µm pump
Risk assessment report incl. Progress report year 1

Risk assessment report incl Progress report year 1

Demonstration of pulse interleaving resulting in >8 fold increase in repetition rate
Final test and performance report

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

FEMTOCHIP webpage, logo, and templates

FEMTOCHIP webpage logo and templates

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (3)

SiN PIC demonstrator for 1.6 µm
Optimised SiN PIC demonstrator
Full device demonstration

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

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

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Muharrem Kilinc, Kai Wang, Milan Sinobad, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Michael Geiselmann, Umit Demirbas, Mikhail Pergament, Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01681-1

Photonic-chip integrated large-mode-area high-power CW optical amplifier

Author(s): Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Kai Wang, Markus Ludwig, Thibault Wildi, Jan Lorenzen, Henry Francis, Michael Geiselmann, Milan Sinobad, Franz X. Kärtner, SoniaM. Garcia-Blanco, Neetesh Singh, Tobias Herr
Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences, Issue 287, 2023, Page(s) 01009, ISSN 2100-014X
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202328701009

Large mode area waveguide based high-energy passively Q-switched laser in silicon photonics

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Milan Sinobad, Kai Wang, Andreas C. Liapis, Henry Frankis, Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Stefanie Haugg, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Michael Geiselmann, Tobias Herr, Jonathan Bradley, Zhipei Sun, Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kartner
Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences, Issue 307, 2024, Page(s) 02008, ISSN 2100-014X
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202430702008

Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials

Author(s): Turunen, M., Brotons-Gisbert, M., Dai, Y. et al.
Published in: Nature Review Physics, 2022, ISSN 2522-5820
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s42254-021-00408-0

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

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Kai Wang, Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Milan Sinobad, Henry Francis, Marvin Edelmann, Michael Geiselmann, Tobias Herr, Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 307-314, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01587-9

Tuning of Emission Wavelength of CaS:Eu by Addition of Oxygen Using Atomic Layer Deposition.

Author(s): José Rosa; Jouko Lahtinen; Jaakko Julin; Zhipei Sun; Harri Lipsanen
Published in: Materials, 2021, ISSN 1996-1944
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/ma14205966

Silicon photonics-based high-energy passively Q-switched laser

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Milan Sinobad, Kai Wang, Andreas C. Liapis, Henry C. Frankis, Stefanie Haugg, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Michael Geiselmann, Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Tobias Herr, Jonathan D. B. Bradley, Zhipei Sun, Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 485-491, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01388-0

A fully hybrid integrated erbium-based laser

Author(s): Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Andrea Bancora, Grigory Lihachev, Johann Riemensberger, Rui Ning Wang, Andrey Voloshin, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 829-835, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01454-7

Nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometer isolator

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 30, 2024, Page(s) 5973, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.447205

Probing Electronic States in Monolayer Semiconductors through Static and Transient Third-Harmonic Spectroscopies.

Author(s): Yadong Wang; Fadil Iyikanat; Habib Rostami; Xueyin Bai; Xuerong Hu; Susobhan Das; Yunyun Dai; Luojun Du; Yi Zhang; Shisheng Li; Harri Lipsanen; F. Javier García de Abajo; Zhipei Sun
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2021, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202107104

Synchronized multi-wavelength soliton fiber laser via intracavity group delay modulation.

Author(s): Dong Mao; Huaqiang Wang; Heze Zhang; Chao Zeng; Yueqing Du; Zhiwen He; Zhipei Sun; Jianlin Zhao
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26872-x

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Compact, spatial-mode-interaction-free, ultralow-loss, nonlinear photonic integrated circuits

Author(s): Xinru Ji, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Rui Ning Wang, Zheru Qiu, Johann Riemensberger, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Communications Physics, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-022-00851-0

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Author(s): Johann Riemensberger, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Rui Ning Wang, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Nature, Issue 612, 2022, Page(s) 56-61, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05329-1

A photonic integrated circuit–based erbium-doped amplifier

Author(s): Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji, Anton Lukashchuk, Jijun He, Johann Riemensberger, Martin Hafermann, Rui Ning Wang, Junqiu Liu, Carsten Ronning, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Science, Issue 376, 2024, Page(s) 1309-1313, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abo2631

Conference proceedings (9)

Silicon Nitride Apodized Chirped Gratings in the Short-wave Infrared Band

Author(s): Milan Sinobad, Jan Lorenzen, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Tobias Herr, Neetesh Singh, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: CLEO 2023, Issue 27, 2023, Page(s) JW2A.94
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2023.jw2a.94

High Energy Passively Q-Switched Laser on a CMOS Platform

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Milan Sinobad, Kai Wang, Andreas C. Liapis, Henry Frankis, Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Stefanie Haugg, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Michael Geiselmann, Tobias Herr, Jonathan Bradley, Zhipei Sun, Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), Issue 6, 2023, Page(s) 1-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec57999.2023.10231957

High power >1.5W tunable laser based on CMOS compatible high-power amplifier

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Milan Sinobad, Kai Wang, Muharrem Kilinc, Henry Francis, Jose Carriera, Michael Geiselmann, Umit Demirbas, Mikhail Pergament, Sonia M Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: 2024 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics), Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 1-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/siphotonics60897.2024.10544301

High power >1.5W tunable laser based on integrated LMA power amplifier

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Milan Sinobad, Kai Wang, Muharrem Kilinc, Henry Francis, Jose Carriera, Michael Geiselmann, Mikhail Pergament, Umit Demirbas, Sonia M Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: CLEO 2024, Issue 33, 2024, Page(s) SM2I.3
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2024.sm2i.3

Watt-Class CMOS-Compatible Power Amplifier

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Milan Sinobad, Kai Wang, Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Henry Francis, Michael Geiselmann, Tobias Herr, Sonia M Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), Issue 27, 2023, Page(s) 1-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec57999.2023.10231735

Spectroscopic Properties of Thulium-doped High-power Integrated LMA Amplifiers

Author(s): Jan Lorenzen, Kai Wang, Muharrem Kilinc, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Michael Geiselmann, Umit Demirbas, Milan Sinobad, Mikhail Pergament, Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner, Neetesh Singh
Published in: CLEO 2024, Issue 117, 2024, Page(s) STu3D.7
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2024.stu3d.7

CMOS-compatible high energy passively Q-switched laser

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Milan Sinobad, Jan Lorenzen, Kai Wang, Andreas C. Liapis, Henry Frankis, Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Stefanie Haugg, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Michael Geiselmann, Tobias Herr, Jonathan Bradley, Zhipei Sun, Sonia M Garicia-Blanco, Franz X Kärtner
Published in: CLEO 2023, Issue 27, 2023, Page(s) STu4P.2
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2023.stu4p.2

Towards On-Chip Ultrafast Pulse Amplification

Author(s): Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Kai Wang, Markus Ludwig, Thibault Wildi, Milan Sinobad, Jan Lorenzen, Henry Francis, Michael Geiselmann, Franz X. Kärtner, Sonia M. Garicia-Blanco, Neetesh Singh, Tobias Herr
Published in: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), 2024, Page(s) 1-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec57999.2023.10231611

Apodized Chirped Bragg Gratings in a Silicon Nitride-on-Insulator Platform at Short-Wave Infrared Wavelengths

Author(s): Milan Sinobad, Jan Lorenzen, Andrej Berg, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Tobias Herr, Neetesh Singh, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), 2023, Page(s) 1-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec57999.2023.10232446

Other (3)

Femtosecond pulse amplification on a chip

Author(s): Gaafar, Mahmoud A.; Ludwig, Markus; Del'Haye, Pascal; Geiselmann, Michael; Singh, Neetesh Kumar; Kärtner, Franz; Garcia-Blanco, Sonia; Herr, Tobias; Wang, Kai; Wildi, Thibault; Voumard, Thibault; Sinobad, Milan; Lorenzen, Jan; Francis, Henry; Zhang, Shuangyou; Bi, Toby
Published in: arXiv 2311.04758, 1-8 (2023). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2311.04758, Issue 7, 2023
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.04758

Chip-scale, CMOS-compatible, high energy passively Q-switched laser

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Milan Sinobad, Kai Wang, Andreas Liapis, Henry Frankis, Stefanie Haugg, Henry Francis, Jose Carreira, Michael Geiselmann, Mahmoud Gaafar, Tobias Herr, Jonathan Bradley, Zhipei Sun, Sonia García-Blanco, Franz Kärtner
Published in: 2024
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2668521/v1

Watt-class CMOS-compatible power amplifier

Author(s): Singh, Neetesh; Lorenzen, Jan; Wang, Kai; Gaafar, Mahmoud A.; Sinobad, Milan; Francis, Henry; Edelmann, Marvin; Geiselmann, Michael; Herr, Tobias; Garcia-Blanco, Sonia M; Kaertner, Franz X.
Published in: Issue 5, 2023
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.12940

Book chapters (1)

High Power 1.8 W Tunable Laser Based on CMOS Compatible Power Amplifier

Author(s): Neetesh Singh, Jan Lorenzen, Muharrem Kilinc, Kai Wang, Milan Sinobad, Henry Francis, Jose Carriera, Michael Geiselmann, Umit Demirbas, Mikhail Pergament, Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Franz X. Kärtner
Published in: Springer Proceedings in Physics, The 25th European Conference on Integrated Optics, 2024, Page(s) 28-31
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63378-2_5