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 …

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 …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, ML Gorodetsky… - Nonlinear optical cavity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …

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 …

Nonlinear and quantum optics with whispering gallery resonators

DV Strekalov, C Marquardt, AB Matsko… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical whispering gallery modes (WGMs) derive their name from a famous acoustic
phenomenon of guiding a wave by a curved boundary observed nearly a century ago. This …

Dispersion engineering and measurement of whispering gallery mode microresonator for Kerr frequency comb generation

S Fujii, T Tanabe - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Designing and engineering microresonator dispersion are essential for generating
microresonator frequency comb. Microresonator frequency combs (microcombs, Kerr …

Mode-locked ultrashort pulse generation from on-chip normal dispersion microresonators

SW Huang, H Zhou, J Yang, JF McMillan, A Matsko… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We describe generation of stable mode-locked pulse trains from on-chip normal dispersion
microresonators. The excitation of hyperparametric oscillation is facilitated by the local …

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 …

Soliton families and resonant radiation in a micro-ring resonator near zero group-velocity dispersion

C Milián, DV Skryabin - Optics Express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report theoretical and numerical study of the dynamical and spectral properties of the
conservative and dissipative solitons in micro-ring resonators pumped in a proximity of the …

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 …