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 …

Nonlocal bonding of a soliton and a blue-detuned state in a microcomb laser

A Cutrona, V Cecconi, PH Hanzard, M Rowley… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser cavity-solitons can appear in a microresonator-filtered laser when judiciously
balancing the slow nonlinearities of the system. Under certain conditions, such optical states …

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 …

Quantifying the accuracy of microcomb-based photonic RF transversal signal processors

Y Sun, J Wu, Y Li, M Tan, X Xu, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic RF transversal signal processors, which are equivalent to reconfigurable electrical
digital signal processors but implemented with photonic technologies, are attractive for high …

20 years of developments in optical frequency comb technology and applications

T Fortier, E Baumann - Communications Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs were developed nearly two decades ago to support the world's
most precise atomic clocks. Acting as precision optical synthesizers, frequency combs …

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 …

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 …

Architecture for the photonic integration of an optical atomic clock

ZL Newman, V Maurice, T Drake, JR Stone, TC Briles… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Laboratory optical atomic clocks achieve remarkable accuracy (now counted to 18 digits or
more), opening possibilities for exploring fundamental physics and enabling new …

Broadband microwave frequency conversion based on an integrated optical micro-comb source

X Xu, J Wu, M Tan, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report a broadband microwave frequency converter based on a coherent Kerr optical
micro-comb generated by an integrated micro-ring resonator. The coherent micro-comb …