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 …

Nonlinear multimode photonics: nonlinear optics with many degrees of freedom

LG Wright, WH Renninger, DN Christodoulides… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The overall goal of photonics research is to understand and control light in new and richer
ways to facilitate new and richer applications. Many major developments to this end have …

Coherently parallel fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing using dual Kerr soliton microcombs

JT Li, B Chang, JT Du, T Tan, Y Geng, H Zhou… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has proven to be a revolutionary technology
for the detection of seismic and acoustic waves with ultralarge scale and ultrahigh sensitivity …

Mid-infrared spectroscopy with a broadly tunable thin-film lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator

AY Hwang, HS Stokowski, T Park, M Jankowski… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Mid-infrared spectroscopy, an important and widespread technique for sensing molecules,
has encountered barriers stemming from sources either limited in tuning range or …

Integrated frequency-modulated optical parametric oscillator

HS Stokowski, DJ Dean, AY Hwang, T Park, OT Celik… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs have revolutionized precision measurement, time-keeping and
molecular spectroscopy,,,,,–. A substantial effort has developed around 'microcombs' …

Broadband 1-GHz mid-infrared frequency comb

N Hoghooghi, S Xing, P Chang, D Lesko… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Mid-infrared (MIR) spectrometers are invaluable tools for molecular fingerprinting and hyper-
spectral imaging. Among the available spectroscopic approaches, GHz MIR dual-comb …

A mid-infrared dual-comb spectrometer in step-sweep mode for high-resolution molecular spectroscopy

M Lepère, O Browet, J Clément, B Vispoel… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2022 - Elsevier
To meet the challenges of high-resolution molecular spectroscopy, increasingly
sophisticated spectroscopic techniques were developed. For a long time FTIR and laser …

Multimodality integrated microresonators using the Moiré speedup effect

QX Ji, P Liu, W Jin, J Guo, L Wu, Z Yuan, J Peters… - Science, 2024 - science.org
High-Q microresonators are indispensable components of photonic integrated circuits and
offer several useful operational modes. However, these modes cannot be reconfigured after …

Genetic algorithm-enhanced microcomb state generation

C Mazoukh, L Di Lauro, I Alamgir, B Fischer… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Microcavities enable the generation of highly efficient microcombs, which find applications in
various domains, such as high-precision metrology, sensing, and telecommunications. Such …

An integrated wavemeter based on fully-stabilized resonant electro-optic frequency comb

R Niu, S Wan, W Li, PY Wang, FW Sun, F Bo… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs provide a powerful tool for precise measurement of the optical
frequency, holding significant importance in fields such as spectroscopy, optical …