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 …

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 …

Lithium niobate photonics: Unlocking the electromagnetic spectrum

A Boes, L Chang, C Langrock, M Yu, M Zhang, Q Lin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Lithium niobate (LN), first synthesized 70 years ago, has been widely used in diverse
applications ranging from communications to quantum optics. These high-volume …

[HTML][HTML] Self-emergence of robust solitons in a microcavity

M Rowley, PH Hanzard, A Cutrona, H Bao, ST Chu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In many disciplines, states that emerge in open systems far from equilibrium are determined
by a few global parameters,. These states can often mimic thermodynamic equilibrium, a …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlocal bonding of a soliton and a blue-detuned state in a microcomb laser

A Cutrona, V Cecconi, PH Hanzard, M Rowley… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser cavity-solitons can appear in a microresonator-filtered laser when judiciously
balancing the slow nonlinearities of the system. Under certain conditions, such optical states …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-dimensional data transmission using inverse-designed silicon photonics and microcombs

KY Yang, C Shirpurkar, AD White, J Zang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The use of optical interconnects has burgeoned as a promising technology that can address
the limits of data transfer for future high-performance silicon chips. Recent pushes to …