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 photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

D Zhu, L Shao, M Yu, R Cheng, B Desiatov… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

[HTML][HTML] High-performance lasers for fully integrated silicon nitride photonics

C Xiang, J Guo, W Jin, L Wu, J Peters, W Xie… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides with ultra-low optical loss enable integrated photonic
applications including low noise, narrow linewidth lasers, chip-scale nonlinear photonics …

Ultralow‐loss silicon photonics beyond the singlemode regime

L Zhang, S Hong, Y Wang, H Yan, Y Xie… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics beyond the singlemode regime is applied for enabling ultralow‐loss
waveguide propagation for the fundamental mode even without any special fabrication …

[HTML][HTML] 100 years of Brillouin scattering: Historical and future perspectives

M Merklein, IV Kabakova, A Zarifi… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Year 2022 marks 100 years since Leon Brillouin predicted and theoretically described
the interaction of optical waves with acoustic waves in a medium. Accordingly, this resonant …

[HTML][HTML] Narrowband microwave-photonic notch filters using Brillouin-based signal transduction in silicon

S Gertler, NT Otterstrom, M Gehl, AL Starbuck… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The growing demand for bandwidth makes photonic systems a leading candidate for future
telecommunication and radar technologies. Integrated photonic systems offer ultra …

Guided-acoustic stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon nitride photonic circuits

R Botter, K Ye, Y Klaver, R Suryadharma, O Daulay… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Coherent optomechanical interaction known as stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) can
enable ultrahigh resolution signal processing and narrow-linewidth lasers. SBS has recently …

Enhanced stimulated Brillouin scattering utilizing Raman conversion in diamond

H Chen, Z Bai, X Yang, J Ding, Y Qi, B Yan… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Cascaded Brillouin lasers based on guided-wave structures are applied across a range of
important fields such as optical communications, microwave photonics, and sensing …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated microwave photonic notch filter using a heterogeneously integrated Brillouin and active-silicon photonic circuit

M Garrett, Y Liu, M Merklein, CT Bui, CK Lai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microwave photonics (MWP) has unlocked a new paradigm for Radio Frequency (RF) signal
processing by harnessing the inherent broadband and tunable nature of photonic …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrahigh dynamic range and low noise figure programmable integrated microwave photonic filter

O Daulay, G Liu, K Ye, R Botter, Y Klaver, Q Tan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microwave photonics has adopted a number of important concepts and technologies over
the recent pasts, including photonic integration, versatile programmability, and techniques …