Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

Nonlinear photonics with high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonators

G Lin, A Coillet, YK Chembo - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High-and ultrahigh-Q whispering-gallery mode resonators have the capability to trap
photons by total internal reflection for a duration ranging from nanoseconds to milliseconds …

Soliton frequency comb at microwave rates in a high-Q silica microresonator

X Yi, QF Yang, KY Yang, MG Suh, K Vahala - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Frequency combs are having a broad impact on science and technology because they
provide a way to coherently link radio/microwave-rate electrical signals with optical-rate …

Stably accessing octave-spanning microresonator frequency combs in the soliton regime

Q Li, TC Briles, DA Westly, TE Drake, JR Stone, BR Ilic… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Microresonator frequency combs can be an enabling technology for optical frequency
synthesis and timekeeping in low size, weight, and power architectures. Such systems …

Raman self-frequency shift of dissipative Kerr solitons in an optical microresonator

M Karpov, H Guo, A Kordts, V Brasch, MHP Pfeiffer… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
The formation of temporal dissipative Kerr solitons in microresonators driven by a
continuous-wave laser enables the generation of coherent, broadband, and spectrally …

Nonlinear conversion efficiency in Kerr frequency comb generation

C Bao, L Zhang, A Matsko, Y Yan, Z Zhao, G Xie… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We analytically and numerically investigate the nonlinear conversion efficiency in ring
microresonator-based mode-locked frequency combs under different dispersion conditions …

Optical lattice trap for Kerr solitons

H Taheri, AB Matsko, L Maleki - The European Physical Journal D, 2017 - Springer
We show theoretically and numerically that dichromatic pumping of a nonlinear
microresonator by two continuous wave coherent optical pumps creates an optical lattice …

Bandwidth shaping of microresonator-based frequency combs via dispersion engineering

Y Okawachi, MRE Lamont, K Luke, DO Carvalho… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We investigate experimentally and theoretically the role of group-velocity dispersion and
higher-order dispersion on the bandwidth of microresonator-based parametric frequency …

Soliton burst and bi‐directional switching in the platform with positive thermal‐refractive coefficient using an auxiliary laser

Y Zhao, L Chen, C Zhang, W Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators enable the generation of stable ultrashort
pulses and phase‐locked frequency combs, leading to their widespread applications. For …

High-order dispersion in Kerr comb oscillators

C Bao, H Taheri, L Zhang, A Matsko, Y Yan, P Liao… - JOSA B, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We numerically investigate the effect of high-order dispersion on Kerr frequency comb
generation in optical microresonators characterized with anomalous group velocity …