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 …

Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

AL Gaeta, M Lipson, TJ Kippenberg - nature photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Recent developments in chip-based nonlinear photonics offer the tantalizing prospect of
realizing many applications that can use optical frequency comb devices that have form …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, ML Gorodetsky… - Nonlinear optical cavity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …

Robust, efficient, micrometre-scale phase modulators at visible wavelengths

G Liang, H Huang, A Mohanty, MC Shin, X Ji… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Optical phase modulators are essential to large-scale integrated photonic systems at visible
wavelengths and are promising for many emerging applications. However, current …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Soliton bursts and deterministic dissipative Kerr soliton generation in auxiliary-assisted microcavities

H Zhou, Y Geng, W Cui, SW Huang, Q Zhou… - Light: Science & …, 2019 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr solitons in resonant frequency combs offer a promising route for ultrafast
mode-locking, precision spectroscopy and time-frequency standards. The dynamics for the …

A microphotonic astrocomb

E Obrzud, M Rainer, A Harutyunyan, MH Anderson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Earth-like planets, dark energy and variability of fundamental physical constants can be
discovered by observing wavelength shifts in the optical spectra of astronomical objects …

Ultra-low-loss integrated visible photonics using thin-film lithium niobate

B Desiatov, A Shams-Ansari, M Zhang, C Wang… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Integrated photonics is a powerful platform that can improve the performance and stability of
optical systems while providing low-cost, small-footprint, and scalable alternatives to …

Searching for exoplanets using a microresonator astrocomb

MG Suh, X Yi, YH Lai, S Leifer, IS Grudinin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Orbiting planets induce a weak radial velocity (RV) shift in the host star that provides a
powerful method of planet detection. Importantly, the RV technique provides information …

Soliton formation and spectral translation into visible on CMOS-compatible 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform

C Wang, J Li, A Yi, Z Fang, L Zhou, Z Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advancements in integrated soliton microcombs open the route to a wide range of
chip-based communication, sensing, and metrology applications. The technology translation …