Integrated optical frequency comb technologies

L Chang, S Liu, JE Bowers - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs offer an unrivalled degree of frequency measurement precision
that underpins the advance of modern technology in both fundamental science and …

Mid-infrared frequency combs

A Schliesser, N Picqué, TW Hänsch - Nature photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Laser frequency combs are coherent light sources that emit a broad spectrum of discrete,
evenly spaced narrow lines whose absolute frequency can be measured to within the …

Dual-comb spectroscopy based on quantum-cascade-laser frequency combs

G Villares, A Hugi, S Blaser, J Faist - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Dual-comb spectroscopy performed in the mid-infrared—where molecules have their
strongest rotovibrational absorption lines—offers the promise of high spectral resolution …

Mid-infrared frequency comb based on a quantum cascade laser

A Hugi, G Villares, S Blaser, HC Liu, J Faist - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs act as rulers in the frequency domain and have opened new
avenues in many fields such as fundamental time metrology, spectroscopy and frequency …

Terahertz laser frequency combs

D Burghoff, TY Kao, N Han, CWI Chan, X Cai… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Terahertz light can be used to identify numerous complex molecules, but has traditionally
remained unexploited due to the lack of powerful broadband sources. Pulsed lasers can be …

Several new directions for ultrafast fiber lasers

W Fu, LG Wright, P Sidorenko, S Backus, FW Wise - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Ultrafast fiber lasers have the potential to make applications of ultrashort pulses widespread–
techniques not only for scientists, but also for doctors, manufacturing engineers, and more …

Quantum cascade laser frequency combs

J Faist, G Villares, G Scalari, M Rösch, C Bonzon… - …, 2016 - degruyter.com
It was recently demonstrated that broadband quantum cascade lasers can operate as
frequency combs. As such, they operate under direct electrical pumping at both mid-infrared …

Next-generation mid-infrared sources

D Jung, S Bank, ML Lee, D Wasserman - Journal of Optics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The mid-infrared (mid-IR) is a wavelength range with a variety of technologically vital
applications in molecular sensing, security and defense, energy conservation, and …

Short pulse generation from a graphene-coupled passively mode-locked terahertz laser

E Riccardi, V Pistore, S Kang, L Seitner, A De Vetter… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The generation of stable trains of ultrashort (femtosecond to picosecond), terahertz-
frequency radiation pulses with large instantaneous intensities is an underlying requirement …

A robust and tuneable mid-infrared optical switch enabled by bulk Dirac fermions

C Zhu, F Wang, Y Meng, X Yuan, F Xiu, H Luo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Pulsed lasers operating in the mid-infrared (3–20 μm) are important for a wide range of
applications in sensing, spectroscopy, imaging and communications. Despite recent …