Publications

4. New paper in Optics Express. Sydney publishes her computational study on Hybrid silicon-organic Huygens metasurface for phase modulation.

3. Shima and Cristina publish an invited paper about the current state of the art and milestones ahead for miniaturised terahertz devices co-habiting with integrated photonic circuits.

This work appears in APL Photonics as a featured article, and is selected for AIP’s Publishing showcase.

Present and future of terahertz integrated photonic devices,

S. Rajabali and I.C. Benea-Chelmus

2. Alessandro and Cristina publish a perspective on Hallmarks of terahertz field metrology, and the advantages offered by possibilities to resolve sub-cycle signatures down to the quantum level.

Resolving subcycle signatures: Perspective on hallmarks of terahertz field metrology

I.C. Benea-Chelmus and A. Tomasino

1. In collaboration with colleagues at Harvard and ETHZ, we demonstrate on-chip terahertz waveform synthesis from lithium niobate circuits.

This works is now published in Nature Communications. Read EPFL press release here.

Terahertz waveform synthesis from lithium niobate integrated circuits,

A. Herter*, A. Shams-Ansari*, F.F. Settembrini, H.Warner, J. Faist, M. Loncar and I.C. Benea-Chelmus

2. In collaborators from VU Brussels, Harvard and IIT, we demonstrate resonators with tailored optical path by cascaded mode conversions. This work is published in Nature Communications.

Resonators with tailored optical path by cascaded mode conversions,

V. Ginis*, I.C. Benea-Chelmus*, J. Lu, M. Piccardo and F. Capasso

1. In collaboration with colleagues at Harvard and University of Washington, we demonstrate metasurface modulators reach gigahertz speeds. This work is published in Nature Communications.

Read Harvard SEAS press release here.

Gigahertz free-space electro-optic modulators based on Mie resonances, I.-C. Benea-Chelmus, S. Mason, M. Meretska, D. Elder, D. Kazakov, A. Shams-Ansari, L. Dalton and F. Capasso

8. Electro-optic spatial light modulator from an engineered organic layer

I.-C. Benea-Chelmus, M. Meretska, D. Elder, M. Tamagnone, L. Dalton and F. Capasso,

US patent application

Nature Communications 12, 5928 (2021)

Harvard SEAS press release: “Bridging optics and electronics

Top 25 most read papers in Nature Communications in 2021.

 

7. Terahertz generation from thin film lithium niobate platform

A. Herter*, A. Shams-Ansari*, F.F.Settembrini, H. Warner, J. Faist, M. Loncar and I.-C. Benea-Chelmus,

CLEO US postdeadline paper SF1B.3 (2021)

 

6. Electro-optic coherent interface for ultra-sensitive intracavity electric field measurements at microwave and terahertz frequencies

I.-C. Benea-Chelmus*, Y. Salamin*, F. F. Settembrini, J. Fedoryshyn, W. Heni, D. Elder, L. Dalton, J. Leuthold and J. Faist,

Optica (2020)

 

5. Compact and ultra-efficient broadband terahertz field detector

Y. Salamin*, I.-C. Benea-Chelmus*, J. Fedoryshyn, W. Heni, D. Elder, L. Dalton, J. Faist and J. Leuthold,

Nature Communications 10, 5550 (2019) , ETH News

 

4. Electric field correlation measurements on the electromagnetic vacuum state

I.-C. Benea-Chelmus, F. F. Settembrini, G. Scalari, and J. Faist,

Nature 568, 202-206 (2019)

Related to the work on vacuum field fluctuations:

Nature podcast interview with I.-C. Benea-Chelmus

 

3. Three-dimensional phase modulator at telecom wavelength acting as a Terahertz detector with an electro-optic bandwidth of 1.25 Terahertz

I.-C. Benea-Chelmus, T. Zhu, F. F. Settembrini, C. Bonzon, E. Mavrona, D. Elder, W. Heni, J. Leuthold, L. Dalton, and J. Faist, ACS Photonics 5 (4), pp 1398-1403 (2018)