Aluminum nitride nanophotonics for beyond-octave soliton microcomb generation and self-referencing

X Liu, Z Gong, AW Bruch, JB Surya, J Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Frequency microcombs, alternative to mode-locked laser and fiber combs, enable miniature
rulers of light for applications including precision metrology, molecular fingerprinting and …

Pockels soliton microcomb

AW Bruch, X Liu, Z Gong, JB Surya, M Li, CL Zou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Kerr soliton microcombs have recently emerged as a prominent topic in integrated photonics
and have enabled new horizons for optical frequency metrology. Kerr soliton microcombs …

High-fidelity cavity soliton generation in crystalline AlN micro-ring resonators

Z Gong, A Bruch, M Shen, X Guo, H Jung, L Fan, X Liu… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Chip-scale mode-locked dissipative Kerr solitons have been realized on various materials
platforms, making it possible to achieve a miniature, highly coherent frequency comb source …

[HTML][HTML] Dual-mode microresonators as straightforward access to octave-spanning dissipative Kerr solitons

H Weng, AA Afridi, J Li, M McDermott, H Tu, LP Barry… - Apl Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Kerr soliton frequency comb is a revolutionary compact ruler of coherent light that allows
applications from precision metrology to quantum information technology. The universal …

Photonic Damascene process for integrated high-Q microresonator based nonlinear photonics

MHP Pfeiffer, A Kordts, V Brasch, M Zervas… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
High confinement, integrated silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides have recently emerged as an
attractive platform for on-chip nonlinear optical devices. The fabrication of high-Q SiN …

Integrated High-Q Crystalline AlN Microresonators for Broadband Kerr and Raman Frequency Combs

X Liu, C Sun, B Xiong, L Wang, J Wang, Y Han… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Development of planar-integrated microresonators with high quality factors (Q's) is crucial for
nonlinear photonics in a robust chip. Compared with silicon and silicon nitride, aluminum …

Ultrabroadband supercontinuum generation and frequency-comb stabilization using on-chip waveguides with both cubic and quadratic nonlinearities

DD Hickstein, H Jung, DR Carlson, A Lind… - Physical Review …, 2017 - APS
Using aluminum nitride photonic-chip waveguides, we generate optical-frequency-comb
supercontinuum spanning from 500 to 4000 nm with a 0.8-nJ seed pulse, and we show that …

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 …

Tuning Kerr-soliton frequency combs to atomic resonances

SP Yu, TC Briles, GT Moille, X Lu, SA Diddams… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Frequency combs based on nonlinear optical phenomena in integrated photonics are a
versatile light source that can explore new applications, including frequency metrology …

Kerr-microresonator solitons from a chirped background

DC Cole, JR Stone, M Erkintalo, KY Yang, X Yi… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical frequency combs based on solitons in nonlinear microresonators open up new
regimes for optical metrology and signal processing across a range of expanding and …