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Area of Science:

  • Photonics
  • Optical Engineering
  • Quantum Optics

Background:

  • The temporal Talbot effect enables self-imaging of optical pulse trains, traditionally studied with macroscopic setups.
  • Integrating the Talbot effect onto photonic chips for pulse train manipulation remains largely unexplored.
  • Existing methods for altering pulse repetition rates often involve bulky instrumentation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and experimentally validate an integrated photonic chip for temporal Talbot effect applications.
  • To demonstrate on-chip generation of self-images for optical pulse trains.
  • To achieve electrical tunability for switching between different output modes.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit.
  • Imprinting Talbot phase relations onto in-phase optical frequency combs.
  • Experimental demonstration of two-fold self-imaging for bright and dark pulse trains.
  • Characterization of spectral properties and repetition rate multiplication.

Main Results:

  • Successful demonstration of a proof-of-principle integrated device.
  • Achieved GHz-repetition-rate doubling of bright and dark pulse trains without spectral modification.
  • Demonstrated electrical tunability for switching between pass-through and repetition-rate-multiplication functionalities.
  • Confirmed compatibility with other frequencies.

Conclusions:

  • The developed integrated photonic chip effectively utilizes the temporal Talbot effect for on-chip pulse repetition rate multiplication.
  • This work lays the foundation for system-on-chip integration of Talbot-based pulse multipliers.
  • Enables flexible, on-chip up-scaling of optical pulse train repetition rates while preserving spectral characteristics.