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 …

Dispersion engineering and measurement of whispering gallery mode microresonator for Kerr frequency comb generation

S Fujii, T Tanabe - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Designing and engineering microresonator dispersion are essential for generating
microresonator frequency comb. Microresonator frequency combs (microcombs, Kerr …

Ultra-high-Q free-space coupling to microtoroid resonators

S Suebka, E McLeod, J Su - Light: Science & Applications, 2024 - nature.com
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microtoroid resonators are one of the most sensitive
biochemical sensors in existence, capable of detecting single molecules. The main barrier …

Emerging material systems for integrated optical Kerr frequency combs

A Kovach, D Chen, J He, H Choi, AH Dogan… - Advances in Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The experimental realization of a Kerr frequency comb represented the convergence of
research in materials, physics, and engineering. This symbiotic relationship continues to …

Overview of the coupling methods used in whispering gallery mode resonator systems for sensing

L Cai, J Pan, S Hu - Optics and lasers in engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities have a small mode volume, a high quality (Q)
factor and great application potential in the field of integrated optics. The coupling of light …

All-precision-machining fabrication of ultrahigh-Q crystalline optical microresonators

S Fujii, Y Hayama, K Imamura, H Kumazaki… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The development of ultrahigh-quality-factor (Q) microresonators has been driving such
technologies as cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), high-precision sensing …

Metamaterial engineered silicon photonic coupler for whispering gallery mode microsphere and disk resonators

D Farnesi, S Pelli, S Soria, G Nunzi Conti, X Le Roux… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Optical microresonators with high quality factors are key in photonic circuits requiring fine
spectral filtering or resonant storage of optical power. Silicon (Si) photonics provides high …

Microresonator-referenced soliton microcombs with zeptosecond-level timing noise

X Jin, Z Xie, X Zhang, H Hou, F Zhang, X Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Optical frequency division relies on optical frequency combs to coherently translate ultra-
stable optical frequency references to the microwave domain. This technology has enabled …

Sub-megahertz spectral dip in a resonator-free twisted gain medium

N Choksi, Y Liu, R Ghasemi, L Qian - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Ultra-narrow optical spectral features resulting from highly dispersive light–matter
interactions are essential for a broad range of applications such as spectroscopy, slow-light …

Microtubule WGM sensor: applications and key technologies

G Yuan, H Li, X Luo, L Lu, L Zhu - BioChip Journal, 2023 - Springer
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microtubule resonators are widely used in highly sensitive
sensing applications due to their ultra-high quality factor Q and extremely small mode size …