Cavity optomechanics

M Aspelmeyer, TJ Kippenberg, F Marquardt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
The field of cavity optomechanics is reviewed. This field explores the interaction between
electromagnetic radiation and nanomechanical or micromechanical motion. This review …

Dispersion engineering and measurement of whispering gallery mode microresonator for Kerr frequency comb generation

S Fujii, T Tanabe - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Designing and engineering microresonator dispersion are essential for generating
microresonator frequency comb. Microresonator frequency combs (microcombs, Kerr …

Ultra-low-loss on-chip resonators with sub-milliwatt parametric oscillation threshold

X Ji, FAS Barbosa, SP Roberts, A Dutt, J Cardenas… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
On-chip optical resonators have the promise of revolutionizing numerous fields, including
metrology and sensing; however, their optical losses have always lagged behind those of …

High spectral purity Kerr frequency comb radio frequency photonic oscillator

W Liang, D Eliyahu, VS Ilchenko… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Femtosecond laser-based generation of radio frequency signals has produced astonishing
improvements in achievable spectral purity, one of the basic features characterizing the …

Universal formation dynamics and noise of Kerr-frequency combs in microresonators

T Herr, K Hartinger, J Riemensberger, CY Wang… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs allow for the precise measurement of optical frequencies and are
used in a growing number of applications. The new class of Kerr-frequency comb sources …

Nonlinear and quantum optics with whispering gallery resonators

DV Strekalov, C Marquardt, AB Matsko… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical whispering gallery modes (WGMs) derive their name from a famous acoustic
phenomenon of guiding a wave by a curved boundary observed nearly a century ago. This …

Microresonator isolators and circulators based on the intrinsic nonreciprocity of the Kerr effect

L Del Bino, JM Silver, MTM Woodley, SL Stebbings… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Nonreciprocal light propagation is important in many applications, ranging from optical
telecommunications to integrated photonics. A simple way to achieve optical nonreciprocity …

Octave spanning tunable frequency comb from a microresonator

P Del'Haye, T Herr, E Gavartin, ML Gorodetsky… - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
We report the generation of an octave-spanning optical frequency comb in a continuous
wave laser pumped microresonator. The generated comb spectrum covers the wavelength …

Optomechanically induced stochastic resonance and chaos transfer between optical fields

F Monifi, J Zhang, ŞK Özdemir, B Peng, Y Liu, F Bo… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Chaotic dynamics has been reported in many physical systems and has affected almost
every field of science. Chaos involves hypersensitivity to the initial conditions of a system …

Mid-infrared optical frequency combs at 2.5 μm based on crystalline microresonators

CY Wang, T Herr, P Del'Haye, A Schliesser… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The mid-infrared spectral range (λ~ 2–20 μm) is of particular importance as many molecules
exhibit strong vibrational fingerprints in this region. Optical frequency combs—broadband …