20 years of developments in optical frequency comb technology and applications

T Fortier, E Baumann - Communications Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs were developed nearly two decades ago to support the world's
most precise atomic clocks. Acting as precision optical synthesizers, frequency combs …

Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber

JM Dudley, G Genty, S Coen - Reviews of modern physics, 2006 - APS
A topical review of numerical and experimental studies of supercontinuum generation in
photonic crystal fiber is presented over the full range of experimentally reported parameters …

Enhanced supercontinuum generation in integrated waveguides incorporated with graphene oxide films

Y Zhang, J Wu, Y Yang, Y Qu, L Jia… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Enhanced supercontinuum generation (SCG) is experimentally demonstrated in integrated
silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguides incorporating highly nonlinear graphene oxide (GO) in …

Photonic crystals

JD Joannopoulos, PR Villeneuve, S Fan - Solid State Communications, 1997 - Elsevier
A new class of composite materials has emerged which provides a means to control and
manipulate light. These materials, known as photonic crystals, are periodic arrays of …

Nonlinear fiber optics

GP Agrawal - Nonlinear Science at the Dawn of the 21st Century, 2000 - Springer
Nonlinear fiber optics concerns with the nonlinear optical phenomena occurring inside
optical fibers. Although the field ofnonlinear optics traces its beginning to 1961, when a ruby …

Optical frequency metrology

T Udem, R Holzwarth, TW Hänsch - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Extremely narrow optical resonances in cold atoms or single trapped ions can be measured
with high resolution. A laser locked to such a narrow optical resonance could serve as a …

Optical coherence tomography-principles and applications

AF Fercher, W Drexler, CK Hitzenberger… - Reports on progress in …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
There have been three basic approaches to optical tomography since the early 1980s:
diffraction tomography, diffuse optical tomography and optical coherence tomography …

Spectrally periodic pulses for enhancement of optical nonlinear effects

JP Lourdesamy, AFJ Runge, TJ Alexander… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical effects are typically weak and enhancement techniques are often required
for practical applications. Here we introduce a method to enhance such effects by …

Models of few optical cycle solitons beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation

H Leblond, D Mihalache - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
In the past years there was a huge interest in experimental and theoretical studies in the
area of few-optical-cycle pulses and in the broader fast growing field of the so-called …

Subwavelength-diameter silica wires for low-loss optical wave guiding

L Tong, RR Gattass, JB Ashcom, S He, J Lou, M Shen… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Silica waveguides with diameters larger than the wavelength of transmitted light are widely
used in optical communications, sensors and other applications,,. Minimizing the width of the …