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 …

Recent progress of supercontinuum generation in nanophotonic waveguides

Y Fang, C Bao, SA Li, Z Wang, W Geng… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Supercontinuum (SC) has opened up possibilities for numerous applications in optical
communications, signal processing, metrology, and spectroscopy. Supercontinuum …

Enhanced supercontinuum generation in integrated waveguides incorporated with graphene oxide films

Y Zhang, J Wu, Y Yang, Y Qu, L Jia… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Enhanced supercontinuum generation (SCG) is experimentally demonstrated in integrated
silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguides incorporating highly nonlinear graphene oxide (GO) in …

Searching for exoplanets using a microresonator astrocomb

MG Suh, X Yi, YH Lai, S Leifer, IS Grudinin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Orbiting planets induce a weak radial velocity (RV) shift in the host star that provides a
powerful method of planet detection. Importantly, the RV technique provides information …

Ultrastable microwave and soliton-pulse generation from fibre-photonic-stabilized microcombs

D Kwon, D Jeong, I Jeon, H Lee, J Kim - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The ability to generate lower-noise microwaves has greatly advanced high-speed, high-
precision scientific and engineering fields. Microcombs have high potential for generating …

Thermal and nonlinear dissipative-soliton dynamics in Kerr-microresonator frequency combs

JR Stone, TC Briles, TE Drake, DT Spencer… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We explore the dynamical response of dissipative Kerr solitons to changes in pump power
and detuning and show how thermal and nonlinear processes couple these parameters to …

Ultralow-noise photonic microwave synthesis using a soliton microcomb-based transfer oscillator

E Lucas, P Brochard, R Bouchand, S Schilt… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The synthesis of ultralow-noise microwaves is of both scientific and technological relevance
for timing, metrology, communications and radio-astronomy. Today, the lowest reported …

Vernier spectrometer using counterpropagating soliton microcombs

QF Yang, B Shen, H Wang, M Tran, Z Zhang, KY Yang… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Determination of laser frequency with high resolution under continuous and abrupt tuning
conditions is important for sensing, spectroscopy, and communications. We show that a …

High-fidelity cavity soliton generation in crystalline AlN micro-ring resonators

Z Gong, A Bruch, M Shen, X Guo, H Jung, L Fan, X Liu… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Chip-scale mode-locked dissipative Kerr solitons have been realized on various materials
platforms, making it possible to achieve a miniature, highly coherent frequency comb source …

Photonic integration for UV to IR applications

DJ Blumenthal - APL Photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Photonic integration opens the potential to reduce size, power, and cost of applications
normally relegated to table-and rack-sized systems. Today, a wide range of precision, high …