Laboratory of Hybrid Photonics
The Hybrid Photonics Laboratory at EPFL develops hybrid electronic-photonic chips for both applied and fundamental sciences. Our research interfaces millimeterwave and terahertz signals with optical ones, aiming to provide innovative solutions for high-capacity communications, millimeterwave quantum circuits, chip-based sensing and time-domain ranging technologies.
Interested? Check out our publications, research section or student projects.
Interested? Check out our publications, research section or student projects.

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Latest news

1/2026: “Large area lithium niobate circuits for terahertz detection and beam profiling” is out in Light: Science and Applications!

11/2025: Our paper on metasurface-controlled external cavity lasers is out on arxiv!

07/2025: “Photonics-integrated terahertz transmission lines” is out in Nature Communications!

06/2025: Cristina wins the 2025 Fresnel Prize for Applied Aspects from the European Physical Society!

06/2025: Aleksei Gaier wins Innovation Seed grant from the QSE to develop portable millimeterwave detectors. Congratulations, Aleksei!
