We are pleased to share our latest microwave photonics paper published at Nature Communications, titled “Programmable multifunctional integrated microwave photonic circuit on thin-film lithium niobate”.
In this paper, we developed a high-performance programmable photonic chip based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN), enabling multifunctional microwave photonic signal processing on a single chip.
Congrats, Chuangchuang and the team!
We are proud to share our recent work, “Stimulated Brillouin scattering in a non-suspended ultra-low-loss thick SOI platform,” has been published as a Featured Article in APL Photonics!
For years, Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in silicon photonics has been primarily explored in suspended SOI platforms, due to acoustic leakage in standard silicon nanowire structures. In this work, we overcome this long-standing challenge by demonstrating that increasing the waveguide dimension can effectively confine optically generated sound waves without suspension.
Congrats, Steven!
We kicked off the year with a full day of roadmapping.
We shared a lot of ideas about new experiments for the following year.
Beside science and tech, we also discussed potential commercialization plans, joined by Dr. Lennart de Vreede from the Strategic Business Development & MESA+, University of Twente.
We are pleased to share a new publication of our paper at Optics Express, titled “RF photonic interference mitigation system using silicon nitride ring resonator network”.
This work was conducted by Maarten as part of his master project. Congrats, Maarten, on this well-deserved achievement!
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands visited the MESA+ Nanolab this week.
During the tour, David had the honor of shaking hands with the King and explaining our research on integrated Brillouin photonics!
We concluded our 2024 activities with a potluck dinner this week.
As is tradition in our group, we shared stories, joys from the past year, accompanied by plenty of beer and wine.
Happy New Year, everyone! Wishing you all another fruitful year in 2025!
Tarik presented our recent exciting progress on silicon nitride waveguide fabrication at the MinacNed conference in Eindhoven. This is a team effort from Tarik, Akshay, and technicians from MESA+ Nanolab. Congrats, guys!
After a long period of study, Maarten Eijkel successfully defended his Master’s thesis titled “Integrated microwave photonic technique for RF interference mitigation”, on September 30th.
In his defense, the whole group suited up to bang the drum for Maarten. Congrats, Maarten!
We had a great time at the annual MESA+ day at the Kinepolis cinema this week!
Steven and Akshay gave two well received talks, sharing our latest SBS discoveries and exciting progress in fabrication. Additionally, Tarik and Chuangchuang also did a great job with their posters, which drew a lot of attention.
Congrats to everyone for the nice presentations!
Last Friday, Prof. Cheng Wang from the City University of Hong Kong visited our lab. We showed him our lab and also the cleanroom at MESA+. Afterward, we had a fruitful discussion about our collaborations on thin-film lithium niobate.
Nonlinear Nanophotonics (NLNP) 