Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Emerging material systems for integrated optical Kerr frequency combs

A Kovach, D Chen, J He, H Choi, AH Dogan… - Advances in Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The experimental realization of a Kerr frequency comb represented the convergence of
research in materials, physics, and engineering. This symbiotic relationship continues to …

Aluminum nitride nanophotonics for beyond-octave soliton microcomb generation and self-referencing

X Liu, Z Gong, AW Bruch, JB Surya, J Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Frequency microcombs, alternative to mode-locked laser and fiber combs, enable miniature
rulers of light for applications including precision metrology, molecular fingerprinting and …

Tantala Kerr nonlinear integrated photonics

H Jung, SP Yu, DR Carlson, TE Drake, TC Briles… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Integrated photonics plays a central role in modern science and technology, enabling
experiments from nonlinear science to quantum information, ultraprecise measurements and …

Tailoring microcombs with inverse-designed, meta-dispersion microresonators

E Lucas, SP Yu, TC Briles, DR Carlson, SB Papp - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear wave mixing in optical microresonators offers new perspectives to generate
compact optical-frequency microcombs, which enable an ever-growing number of …

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 …

A continuum of bright and dark-pulse states in a photonic-crystal resonator

SP Yu, E Lucas, J Zang, SB Papp - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinearity is a powerful determinant of physical systems. Controlling nonlinearity leads to
interesting states of matter and new applications. In optics, diverse families of continuous …

Spontaneous pulse formation in edgeless photonic crystal resonators

SP Yu, DC Cole, H Jung, GT Moille, K Srinivasan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nonlinearity in complex systems leads to pattern formation through fundamental interactions
between components. With integrated photonics, precision control of nonlinearity explores …

Dissipative Kerr Solitons in a III‐V Microresonator

G Moille, L Chang, W Xie, A Rao, X Lu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Stable microresonator Kerr soliton frequency combs in a III‐V platform (AlGaAs on SiO2) are
demonstrated through quenching of thermorefractive effects by cryogenic cooling to …

Chip-based self-referencing using integrated lithium niobate waveguides

Y Okawachi, M Yu, B Desiatov, BY Kim, T Hansson… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The measurement and stabilization of the carrier–envelope offset frequency f_CEO via self-
referencing is paramount for optical frequency comb generation, which has revolutionized …