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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sagnac interference in integrated photonics

H Arianfard, S Juodkazis, DJ Moss, J Wu - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
As a fundamental optical approach to interferometry, Sagnac interference has been widely
used for reflection manipulation, precision measurements, and spectral engineering in …

Frequency comb spectroscopy

N Picqué, TW Hänsch - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
A laser frequency comb is a broad spectrum composed of equidistant narrow lines. Initially
invented for frequency metrology, such combs enable new approaches to spectroscopy over …

Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

RF photonics: an optical microcombs' perspective

J Wu, X Xu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, optical frequency combs generated by high-Q microresonators, or
optical microcombs, which feature compact device footprints, low power consumption, and …

Microresonator soliton dual-comb spectroscopy

MG Suh, QF Yang, KY Yang, X Yi, KJ Vahala - Science, 2016 - science.org
Measurement of optical and vibrational spectra with high resolution provides a way to
identify chemical species in cluttered environments and is of general importance in many …

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 …

Mode-locked dark pulse Kerr combs in normal-dispersion microresonators

X Xue, Y Xuan, Y Liu, PH Wang, S Chen, J Wang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The generation of Kerr frequency combs in a coherently driven nonlinear microresonator is
now extensively investigated more generally by the research community as a potentially …

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 …

Silicon-chip-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy

M Yu, Y Okawachi, AG Griffith, N Picqué… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The development of a spectroscopy device on a chip that could realize real-time
fingerprinting with label-free and high-throughput detection of trace molecules represents …