We have demonstrated all-optical frequency down- and up-conversion of MHz-bandwidth OFDM signals compliant with the IEEE 802.16e WiMAX wireless standard The cavity, built on a silicon chip and supporting a breathing-like mechanical resonance at 3.9 GHz, performs simultaneously as nonlinear mixer and local oscillator when operated in the phonon lasing regime.
The results have been published in Laser & Photonics Reviews: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lpor.202100175.
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SIOMO Project: SIlicon Optomechanical optoelectronic Microwave Oscillator
The SIOMO project, started on June 2020, aims at turning a silicon-photonics-integrated microwave oscillator based on cavity optomechanics, recently...
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Near-Field Unidirectional Excitation… and Beyond
Our joint work with KCL on near-field directionality beyond the dipole approximation together with the first experimental demonstration of...
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Back cover in the September 2020 issue of “Laser and Photonics Reviews”
We got the back cover in the September 2020 issue of the prestigious photonics journal “Laser and Photonics Reviews”....
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NTC visit to Philips Innovation Services
In a roadshow organized by SECPHO NTC professor Alejandro Martinez was visiting the Philips Innovation Services (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)...
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Molecular Optomechanics Upconversion reported in two Science papers
Molecular Optomechanics in Plasmonic Cavities The NTC has collaborated in two experiments reporting for the first time the upconversion...
