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 …

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 …

Self-emergence of robust solitons in a microcavity

M Rowley, PH Hanzard, A Cutrona, H Bao, ST Chu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In many disciplines, states that emerge in open systems far from equilibrium are determined
by a few global parameters,. These states can often mimic thermodynamic equilibrium, a …

Microcomb-driven silicon photonic systems

H Shu, L Chang, Y Tao, B Shen, W Xie, M Jin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Microcombs have sparked a surge of applications over the past decade, ranging from optical
communications to metrology,,–. Despite their diverse deployment, most microcomb-based …

11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks

X Xu, M Tan, B Corcoran, J Wu, A Boes, TG Nguyen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Convolutional neural networks, inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful
category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features of raw data to …

Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source

B Corcoran, M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, J Wu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Micro-combs-optical frequency combs generated by integrated micro-cavity resonators–offer
the full potential of their bulk counterparts, but in an integrated footprint. They have enabled …

Photonic RF arbitrary waveform generator based on a soliton crystal micro-comb source

M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a photonic-based radio frequency (RF) arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) using
a soliton crystal micro-comb source with a free spectral range (FSR) of 48.9 GHz. The comb …

Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source

AA Jørgensen, D Kong, MR Henriksen, F Klejs, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical fibre communication is the backbone of the internet. As essential core technologies
are approaching their limits of size, speed and energy-efficiency, there is a need for new …

Photonic perceptron based on a Kerr Microcomb for high‐speed, scalable, optical neural networks

X Xu, M Tan, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Optical artificial neural networks (ONNs)—analog computing hardware tailored for machine
learning—have significant potential for achieving ultra‐high computing speed and energy …

Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

AL Gaeta, M Lipson, TJ Kippenberg - nature photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Recent developments in chip-based nonlinear photonics offer the tantalizing prospect of
realizing many applications that can use optical frequency comb devices that have form …