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 …

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 …

Laser spectroscopy for breath analysis: towards clinical implementation

B Henderson, A Khodabakhsh, M Metsälä, I Ventrillard… - Applied Physics B, 2018 - Springer
Detection and analysis of volatile compounds in exhaled breath represents an attractive tool
for monitoring the metabolic status of a patient and disease diagnosis, since it is non …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in semiconductor ring lasers

B Meng, M Singleton, J Hillbrand, M Franckié… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr solitons are self-organized optical waves arising from the interplay between
the Kerr effect and dispersion. They can form in nonlinear microresonators by deliberately …

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 …

Single-shot sub-microsecond mid-infrared spectroscopy on protein reactions with quantum cascade laser frequency combs

JL Klocke, M Mangold, P Allmendinger, A Hugi… - Analytical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The kinetic analysis of irreversible protein reactions requires an analytical technique that
provides access to time-dependent infrared spectra in a single shot. Here, we present a …

Coherent injection locking of quantum cascade laser frequency combs

J Hillbrand, AM Andrews, H Detz, G Strasser… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Quantum cascade laser (QCL) frequency combs are a promising candidate for chemical
sensing and biomedical diagnostics,,–. They are electrically pumped and compact, making …

Cavity-enhanced photoacoustic dual-comb spectroscopy

Z Wang, Q Nie, H Sun, Q Wang, S Borri… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Photoacoustic dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS), converting spectral information in the optical
frequency domain to the audio frequency domain via multi-heterodyne beating, enables …

Femtosecond pulses from a mid-infrared quantum cascade laser

P Täschler, M Bertrand, B Schneider, M Singleton… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The quantum cascade laser has evolved to be a compact, powerful source of coherent mid-
infrared light; however, its fast gain dynamics strongly restricts the formation of ultrashort …

Evidence of linear chirp in mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

M Singleton, P Jouy, M Beck, J Faist - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Since the first demonstration of the quantum cascade laser (QCL) frequency comb in 2012,
there have been open questions concerning the reproducibility of comb states, and, critically …