Applications of optical microcombs

Y Sun, J Wu, M Tan, X Xu, Y Li, R Morandotti… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Soliton formation and spectral translation into visible on CMOS-compatible 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform

C Wang, J Li, A Yi, Z Fang, L Zhou, Z Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advancements in integrated soliton microcombs open the route to a wide range of
chip-based communication, sensing, and metrology applications. The technology translation …

Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

[HTML][HTML] Dual-mode microresonators as straightforward access to octave-spanning dissipative Kerr solitons

H Weng, AA Afridi, J Li, M McDermott, H Tu, LP Barry… - Apl Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Kerr soliton frequency comb is a revolutionary compact ruler of coherent light that allows
applications from precision metrology to quantum information technology. The universal …

Octave-spanning microcomb generation in 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator photonics platform

L Cai, J Li, R Wang, Q Li - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Silicon carbide has recently emerged as a promising photonics material due to its unique
properties, including possessing strong second-and third-order nonlinear coefficients and …

Octave-spanning Kerr soliton frequency combs in dispersion-and dissipation-engineered lithium niobate microresonators

Y Song, Y Hu, X Zhu, K Yang, M Lončar - Light: Science & Applications, 2024 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr solitons from optical microresonators, commonly referred to as soliton
microcombs, have been developed for a broad range of applications, including precision …

Soliton microcomb-assisted microring photonic thermometer with ultra-high resolution and broad range

C Zhang, J Wang, G Kang, J Gao, Z Qu, S Wan… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Whispering gallery mode resonators (WGMRs) have proven their advantages in terms of
sensitivity and precision in various sensing applications. However, when high precision is …

Submilliwatt, widely tunable coherent microcomb generation with feedback-free operation

H Shu, L Chang, C Lao, B Shen, W Xie… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Microcombs are revolutionizing optoelectronics by providing parallel, mutually coherent
wavelength channels for time-frequency metrology and information processing. To …

Thermal noise reduction in soliton microcombs via laser self-cooling

F Lei, Z Ye, V Torres-Company - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Thermal noise usually dominates the low-frequency region of the optical phase noise of
soliton microcombs, which leads to decoherence that limits many aspects of applications. In …