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 …

Optical frequency combs: Coherently uniting the electromagnetic spectrum

SA Diddams, K Vahala, T Udem - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND The generation and control of coherent electromagnetic waves, such as
those provided by electronic oscillators in the radio frequency domain or lasers in the optical …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate

M Yu, D Barton III, R Cheng, C Reimer, P Kharel, L He… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Integrated femtosecond pulse and frequency comb sources are critical components for a
wide range of applications, including optical atomic clocks, microwave photonics …

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

C Xiang, J Liu, J Guo, L Chang, RN Wang, W Weng… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-
based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser …

High-yield, wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss, dispersion-engineered silicon nitride photonic circuits

J Liu, G Huang, RN Wang, J He, AS Raja, T Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Low-loss photonic integrated circuits and microresonators have enabled a wide range of
applications, such as narrow-linewidth lasers and chip-scale frequency combs. To translate …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs

B Shen, L Chang, J Liu, H Wang, QF Yang, C Xiang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs have a wide range of applications in science and technology. An
important development for miniature and integrated comb systems is the formation of …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Laser cavity-soliton microcombs

H Bao, A Cooper, M Rowley, L Di Lauro… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microcavity-based frequency combs, or 'microcombs',, have enabled many fundamental
breakthroughs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,–through the discovery of temporal cavity-solitons. These self …

Self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb

Y He, QF Yang, J Ling, R Luo, H Liang, M Li, B Shen… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The wide range of functions that are possible with lithium niobate (LN) waveguide devices,
including phase and intensity modulation, second-harmonic generation, and difference …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, ML Gorodetsky… - Nonlinear optical cavity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …