Emerging material systems for integrated optical Kerr frequency combs

A Kovach, D Chen, J He, H Choi, AH Dogan… - Advances in Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The experimental realization of a Kerr frequency comb represented the convergence of
research in materials, physics, and engineering. This symbiotic relationship continues to …

High Q-factor reconfigurable microresonators induced in side-coupled optical fibres

V Vassiliev, M Sumetsky - Light: Science & Applications, 2023 - nature.com
High Q-factor monolithic optical microresonators found numerous applications in classical
and quantum optical signal processing, microwave photonics, ultraprecise sensing, as well …

Broadband high-Q multimode silicon concentric racetrack resonators for widely tunable Raman lasers

Y Zhang, K Zhong, X Zhou, HK Tsang - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Multimode silicon resonators with ultralow propagation losses for ultrahigh quality (Q) factors
have been attracting attention recently. However, conventional multimode silicon resonators …

Sol–Gel Photonic Glasses: From Material to Application

GC Righini, C Armellini, M Ferrari, A Carlotto… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this review, we present a short overview of the development of sol–gel glasses for
application in the field of photonics, with a focus on some of the most interesting results …

Optical supercontinuum generation via rotational and vibrational molecular cavity optomechanics

Q Lu, L Liao, L Chen, J Guo, Y Hu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The solid high quality (Q) factor whispering gallery mode microcavities are demonstrated as
an excellent experimental platform for enhanced light–matter interactions, and are applied in …

Controllable Kerr and Raman-Kerr frequency combs in functionalized microsphere resonators

S Zhu, L Shi, L Ren, Y Zhao, B Jiang, B Xiao… - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Optical frequency comb (OFC) based on the whispering-gallery-mode microresonator has
various potential applications in fundamental and applied areas. Once the solid …

Theory of nonlinear whispering-gallery-mode dynamics in surface nanoscale axial photonics microresonators

AY Kolesnikova, ID Vatnik - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We present a comprehensive model describing the Kerr nonlinear dynamics of an electric
field in a cylindrical microresonator with a small effective radius variation, known as a …

Cascade Brillouin lasing in a tellurite-glass microsphere resonator with whispering gallery modes

EA Anashkina, MP Marisova, VV Dorofeev… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Brillouin microlasers based on microresonators with whispering gallery modes (WGMs) are
in high demand for different applications including sensing and biosensing. We fabricated a …

Review of Microbottle Resonators for Sensing Applications

H Adnan Zain, M Batumalay, H Haris, I Saad… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microbottle resonators (MBR) are bottle-like structures fabricated by varying the radius of an
optical fiber. MBRs can support whispering gallery modes (WGM) by the total internal …

Single-mode lasing in an AlGaInAs/InP dual-port square microresonator

K Yang, YL Chen, T Wang, JC Liu, YR Fan, Y Yang… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Mode selection is crucial to achieving stable single-mode lasing in microlasers. Here, we
demonstrate experimentally a dual-port square microresonator for single-mode lasing with a …