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 …

Turing patterns in a fiber laser with a nested microresonator: Robust and controllable microcomb generation

H Bao, L Olivieri, M Rowley, ST Chu, BE Little… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Microcombs based on Turing patterns have been extensively studied in configurations that
can be modeled by the Lugiato-Lefever equation. Typically, such schemes are implemented …

Silicon nitride-based Kerr frequency combs and applications in metrology

Z Sun, Y Li, B Bai, Z Zhu, H Sun - Advanced Photonics, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Kerr frequency combs have been attracting significant interest due to their rich physics and
broad applications in metrology, microwave photonics, and telecommunications. In this …

Dynamics of soliton self-injection locking in optical microresonators

AS Voloshin, NM Kondratiev, GV Lihachev, J Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Soliton microcombs constitute chip-scale optical frequency combs, and have the potential to
impact a myriad of applications from frequency synthesis and telecommunications to …

Unraveling the origin of frequency modulated combs using active cavity mean-field theory

D Burghoff - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In many laser systems, frequency combs whose output is frequency-modulated (FM) can
form, producing light whose frequency sweeps linearly. While this intriguing result has been …

A continuum of bright and dark-pulse states in a photonic-crystal resonator

SP Yu, E Lucas, J Zang, SB Papp - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinearity is a powerful determinant of physical systems. Controlling nonlinearity leads to
interesting states of matter and new applications. In optics, diverse families of continuous …

Rogue waves in nonlinear optics

M Tlidi, M Taki - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Understanding the phenomenon of rogue wave formation, often called extreme waves, in
diverse branches of nonlinear science has become one of the most attractive domains …

Emergent nonlinear phenomena in a driven dissipative photonic dimer

A Tikan, J Riemensberger, K Komagata, S Hönl… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Collective effects leading to spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal pattern formation in complex
nonlinear systems driven out of equilibrium cannot be described at the single-particle level …

Engineered Raman lasing in photonic integrated chalcogenide microresonators

D Xia, Y Huang, B Zhang, P Zeng… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic integrated Raman lasers have extended the wavelength range of chip‐scale laser
sources and have enabled applications including molecular spectroscopy, environmental …

Hybrid InP and SiN integration of an octave-spanning frequency comb

TC Briles, SP Yu, L Chang, C Xiang, J Guo… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Implementing optical-frequency combs with integrated photonics will enable wider use of
precision timing signals. Here, we explore the generation of an octave-span, Kerr …