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 …

Microcomb-driven silicon photonic systems

H Shu, L Chang, Y Tao, B Shen, W Xie, M Jin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Microcombs have sparked a surge of applications over the past decade, ranging from optical
communications to metrology,,–. Despite their diverse deployment, most microcomb-based …

Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link

A Rizzo, A Novick, V Gopal, BY Kim, X Ji, S Daudlin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The growth of computing needs for artificial intelligence and machine learning is critically
challenging data communications in today's data-centre systems. Data movement …

Breaking the temporal and frequency congestion of LiDAR by parallel chaos

R Chen, H Shu, B Shen, L Chang, W Xie, W Liao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The rising demand for high scanning accuracy and resolution in sensors for self-driving
vehicles has led to the rapid development of parallelization in light detection and ranging …

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

C Xiang, J Liu, J Guo, L Chang, RN Wang, W Weng… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-
based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser …

Hertz-linewidth semiconductor lasers using CMOS-ready ultra-high-Q microresonators

W Jin, QF Yang, L Chang, B Shen, H Wang, MA Leal… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Driven by narrow-linewidth bench-top lasers, coherent optical systems spanning optical
communications, metrology and sensing provide unrivalled performance. To transfer these …

Photonic RF arbitrary waveform generator based on a soliton crystal micro-comb source

M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a photonic-based radio frequency (RF) arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) using
a soliton crystal micro-comb source with a free spectral range (FSR) of 48.9 GHz. The comb …

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 …

Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source

AA Jørgensen, D Kong, MR Henriksen, F Klejs, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical fibre communication is the backbone of the internet. As essential core technologies
are approaching their limits of size, speed and energy-efficiency, there is a need for new …