The Hybrid Photonics Laboratory at EPFL is seeking for talented and motivated candidates to join our growing team in the field of Integrated Photonics for generation of high-quality electronic signals at elevated frequencies beyond 100 GHz. This is a collaborative project with IEMN Lille as part of a Swiss-French collaborative project.
High-end microwave instrumentation is at the core of communications, computing, metrology, sensing or ranging. Yet, it relies on the availability of broadband tunable, narrow linewidth, and bright microwave sources that can be used to excite a high-frequency circuit or to detect its response via heterodyne techniques.
You will research hybrid photonic-spintronic chips on silicon nitride, an offering integrated photonic platform providing ultra low-loss, negligible two-photon absorption, high optical nonlinearity, possibilities to engineer both positive and negative group velocity dispersion through waveguide design and high-Finesse optical resonators, with the aim to develop compact and efficient sources of pulsed and continuous wave terahertz radiation in the band from 100 GHz to 10 THz.
As a successful candidate of a dynamic team, you will shape the future of photonics-based millimeterwave-optical technology in our young and dynamic lab. You will develop first-of-their kind hybrid platforms that enable complex high-frequency operations directly inside miniaturized photonic chips.
You will kick off diverse aspects of the experimental effort: technical (setting up an optical measurement setup design, including design of high-frequency electronics and custom-tailored mechanical components) and conceptual (develop the theory of millimeterwave/terahertz generation inside photonic chips). In the lab, you will learn about integrated and free-space quantum optical technologies and engineering, and nonlinear optics. You will contribute to the automatisation of measurement routines, comprehensive characterisation of fabricated samples and to bridging the area of microwave/terahertz-optical science and technology with the most modern integrated photonic techniques.
