Emerging material platforms for integrated microcavity photonics

J Liu, F Bo, L Chang, CH Dong, X Ou, B Regan… - Science China Physics …, 2022 - Springer
Many breakthroughs in technologies are closely associated with the deep understanding
and development of new material platforms. As the main material used in microelectronics …

Microcombs in fiber Fabry–Pérot cavities

J Musgrave, SW Huang, M Nie - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Optical frequency combs, which consist of precisely controlled spectral lines covering a wide
range, have played a crucial role in enabling numerous scientific advancements. Beyond …

Dual-microcomb generation via a monochromatically pumped dual-mode microresonator

R Miao, K Yin, C Zhou, C Zhang, Z Yu, X Zheng… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Microcombs have enabled a host of cutting-edge applications from metrology to
communications that have garnered significant attention in the last decade. Nevertheless …

Repetition rate locked single-soliton microcomb generation via rapid frequency sweep and sideband thermal compensation

R Miao, C Zhang, X Zheng, X Cheng, K Yin… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) with mode-locked pulse trains in high-Q optical
microresonators possess low-noise and broadband parallelized comb lines, having already …

Turn-key Kerr soliton generation and tunable microwave synthesizer in dual-mode Si3N4 microresonators

H Weng, M McDermott, AA Afridi, H Tu, Q Lu, W Guo… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
This study investigates the thermal compensation mechanism in dual-mode Si_3N_4
microresonators that demonstrates the ease of generation of single-solitons with nearly …

Repetition rate tuning and locking of solitons in a microrod resonator

R Niu, S Wan, SM Sun, TG Ma, HJ Chen, WQ Wang… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Recently, there has been significant interest in the generation of coherent temporal solitons
in optical microresonators. In this Letter, we present a demonstration of dissipative Kerr …

Program-controlled single soliton generation driven by the thermal-compensated avoided mode crossing

H Zhang, L Lu, J Chen, L Zhou - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Single soliton microcombs enable the chip-scaled comb source with an extremely high
repetition rate suitable for many applications. However, it is challenging to deterministically …

Octave-spanning soliton microcomb in silica microdisk resonators

J Gu, X Li, K Qi, K Pu, Z Li, F Zhang, T Li, Z Xie… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a chip-based octave-spanning soliton microcomb in a whispering gallery
mode microresonator platform. By fabricating a silica microdisk resonator and optimizing its …

Observation of deterministic double dissipative-Kerr-soliton generation with avoided mode crossing

H Liu, W Wang, J Yang, M Yu, DL Kwong… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in microresonators have boosted the development of the
chip-scale ultrastable microcomb sources, and thrived in both fundamental physics and a …

Computer-controlled microresonator soliton comb system automating soliton generation and expanding excursion bandwidth

L Zhou, Y Shen, C Xi, X Huang, G He - Optics Continuum, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A computer-controlled dual-laser dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) comb system is established.
The system can automatically and robustly access the single soliton state by controlling two …