Ultralow-loss integrated photonics enables bright, narrowband, photon-pair sources

R Chen, YH Luo, J Long, B Shi, C Shen, J Liu - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Photon-pair sources are critical building blocks for photonic quantum systems. Leveraging
Kerr nonlinearity and cavity-enhanced spontaneous four-wave mixing, chip-scale photon …

Frequency-comb-linearized, widely tunable lasers for coherent ranging

B Shi, YH Luo, W Sun, Y Hu, J Long, X Bai… - Photonics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Tunable lasers, with the ability to continuously vary their emission wavelengths, have found
widespread applications across various fields such as biomedical imaging, coherent …

Dual-microcomb generation via a monochromatically pumped dual-mode microresonator

R Miao, K Yin, C Zhou, C Zhang, Z Yu, X Zheng… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Microcombs have enabled a host of cutting-edge applications from metrology to
communications that have garnered significant attention in the last decade. Nevertheless …

[HTML][HTML] Programmable access to microresonator solitons with modulational sideband heating

H Zheng, W Sun, X Ding, H Wen, R Chen, B Shi… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Dissipative Kerr solitons formed in high-Q optical microresonators provide a route to
miniaturized optical frequency combs that can revolutionize precision measurements …

On-the-fly precision spectroscopy with a dual-modulated tunable diode laser and Hz-level referencing to a cavity

S Zhang, T Bi, P Del'Haye - Advanced Photonics, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Advances in laser spectroscopy have enabled many scientific breakthroughs in physics,
chemistry, biology, and astronomy. Optical frequency combs pushed measurement limits …

Direct phase measurement of waveguides with a next generation optical vector spectrum analyzer

A Grieco - Light: Science & Applications, 2024 - nature.com
A novel dual-mode optical vector spectrum analyzer is demonstrated that is suitable for the
characterization of both passive devices as well as active laser sources. It can measure loss …

Correction of laser sweeping nonlinearities using ultralow-loss on-chip 7 m spiral resonators

O Terra, W Jin, H Kotb, J Guo, JE Bowers - Photonics Research, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Swept laser interferometry is an extremely powerful solution embedded in several recent
technologies such as absolute distance measurement, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) …

On-chip optical vector analysis based on thin-film lithium niobate single-sideband modulators

H Feng, T Ge, Y Hu, Z Wang, Y Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical vector analysis (OVA) is an enabling technology for comprehensively characterizing
both amplitude and phase responses of optical devices or systems. Conventional OVA …

In-situ optical vector analysis based on integrated lithium niobate single-sideband modulators

H Feng, T Ge, Y Hu, Z Wang, Y Zhang, Z Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Optical vector analysis (OVA) is an enabling technology for comprehensively characterizing
both amplitude and phase responses of optical devices or systems. Conventional OVA …

Comparative study on pump frequency tuning and self-injection locking in Kerr microcomb generation

Z Yu, W Hua, C Zhang, R Miao, K Yin… - Chinese Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The optical frequency comb has attracted considerable interest due to its diverse
applications in optical atomic clocks, ultra-low-noise microwave generation, dual-comb …