Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

AL Gaeta, M Lipson, TJ Kippenberg - nature photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Recent developments in chip-based nonlinear photonics offer the tantalizing prospect of
realizing many applications that can use optical frequency comb devices that have form …

Mid-infrared integrated photonics on silicon: a perspective

H Lin, Z Luo, T Gu, LC Kimerling, K Wada… - …, 2017 - degruyter.com
The emergence of silicon photonics over the past two decades has established silicon as a
preferred substrate platform for photonic integration. While most silicon-based photonic …

Mid-infrared octave spanning supercontinuum generation to 8.5 μm in silicon-germanium waveguides

M Sinobad, C Monat, B Luther-Davies, P Ma… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Efficient on-chip molecule and bio-agent detection can be achieved by accessing strong
molecular absorption lines in the mid-infrared, but it requires high output power broadband …

Integrated chalcogenide photonics for microresonator soliton combs

D Xia, Z Yang, P Zeng, B Zhang, J Wu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated nonlinear photonics, combined nonlinear optics with state‐of‐the‐art photonic
integration, play a crucial role in chip‐integrated technologies including optical frequency …

Recent progress of supercontinuum generation in nanophotonic waveguides

Y Fang, C Bao, SA Li, Z Wang, W Geng… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Supercontinuum (SC) has opened up possibilities for numerous applications in optical
communications, signal processing, metrology, and spectroscopy. Supercontinuum …

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in silicon-germanium all-normal dispersion waveguides

M Sinobad, A DellaTorre, R Armand, B Luther-Davies… - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate coherent supercontinuum generation spanning over an octave from a
silicon germanium-on-silicon waveguide using∼ 200fs pulses at a wavelength of 4 µm. The …

On-chip infrared photonics with Si-Ge-heterostructures: What is next?

IA Fischer, M Brehm, M De Seta, G Isella, DJ Paul… - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The integration of Ge on Si for photonics applications has reached a high level of maturity:
Ge photodetectors are available on the Si platform in foundry processes, and Si/Ge …

Chip-scale broadband spectroscopic chemical sensing using an integrated supercontinuum source in a chalcogenide glass waveguide

Q Du, Z Luo, H Zhong, Y Zhang, Y Huang, T Du… - Photonics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
On-chip spectroscopic sensors have attracted increasing attention for portable and field-
deployable chemical detection applications. So far, these sensors largely rely on benchtop …

High brightness 2.2–12 μm mid‐infrared supercontinuum generation in a nontoxic chalcogenide step‐index fiber

B Zhang, Y Yu, C Zhai, S Qi, Y Wang… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An environment friendly nonlinear chalcogenide glass fiber with a Ge‐Sb‐Se core and a Ge‐
Se cladding is fabricated for bright broadband mid‐infrared (MIR) supercontinuum (SC) …

[HTML][HTML] On-chip mid-infrared and THz frequency combs for spectroscopy

G Scalari, J Faist, N Picqué - Applied Physics Letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Frequency combs, spectra of phase-coherent equidistant lines often generated by mode-
locked femtosecond lasers, have revolutionized time and frequency metrology. 1, 2 In recent …