Optical frequency combs: Coherently uniting the electromagnetic spectrum

SA Diddams, K Vahala, T Udem - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND The generation and control of coherent electromagnetic waves, such as
those provided by electronic oscillators in the radio frequency domain or lasers in the optical …

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 …

Electro-optic frequency combs

A Parriaux, K Hammani, G Millot - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Frequency combs are optical spectra composed of a set of discrete equally spaced lines.
Such spectra can be generated by diverse sources such as mode-locked lasers, resonators …

Synthesizing ultrafast optical pulses with arbitrary spatiotemporal control

L Chen, W Zhu, P Huo, J Song, HJ Lezec, T Xu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The ability to control the instantaneous state of light, from high-energy pulses down to the
single-photon level, is an indispensable requirement in photonics. This has, for example …

A Neptune-mass exoplanet in close orbit around a very low-mass star challenges formation models

G Stefánsson, S Mahadevan, Y Miguel, P Robertson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Theories of planet formation predict that low-mass stars should rarely host exoplanets with
masses exceeding that of Neptune. We used radial velocity observations to detect a …

Tutorial: nonlinear magnonics

S Zheng, Z Wang, Y Wang, F Sun, Q He… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Nonlinear magnonics studies the nonlinear interaction between magnons and other
physical platforms (phonon, photon, qubit, spin texture) to generate novel magnon states for …

2023 astrophotonics roadmap: pathways to realizing multi-functional integrated astrophotonic instruments

N Jovanovic, P Gatkine, N Anugu… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic technologies offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize
astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity …

A hot-Jupiter progenitor on a super-eccentric retrograde orbit

AF Gupta, SC Millholland, H Im, J Dong, JM Jackson… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Giant exoplanets orbiting close to their host stars are unlikely to have formed in their present
configurations. These 'hot Jupiter'planets are instead thought to have migrated inward from …

The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b Has a Polar Orbit

G Stefànsson, S Mahadevan, C Petrovich… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The warm Neptune GJ 3470b transits a nearby (d= 29 pc) bright slowly rotating M1. 5-dwarf
star. Using spectroscopic observations during two transits with the newly commissioned …

Confirmation of WASP-107b's extended helium atmosphere with keck II/NIRSPEC

J Kirk, MK Alam, M López-Morales… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the detection of helium in the extended atmosphere of the sub-Saturn WASP-
107b using high-resolution (R≈ 25,000) near-infrared spectra from Keck II/Near Infrared …