Recent advances in laser self-injection locking to high-Q microresonators

NM Kondratiev, VE Lobanov, AE Shitikov, RR Galiev… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
The stabilization and manipulation of laser frequency by means of an external cavity are
nearly ubiquitously used in fundamental research and laser applications. While most of the …

Advances in soliton microcomb generation

W Wang, L Wang, W Zhang - Advanced Photonics, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical frequency combs, a revolutionary light source characterized by discrete and equally
spaced frequencies, are usually regarded as a cornerstone for advanced frequency …

Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source

B Corcoran, M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, J Wu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Micro-combs-optical frequency combs generated by integrated micro-cavity resonators–offer
the full potential of their bulk counterparts, but in an integrated footprint. They have enabled …

Robust soliton crystals in a thermally controlled microresonator

W Wang, Z Lu, W Zhang, ST Chu, BE Little, L Wang… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate robust soliton crystals generation with a fixed frequency pump laser
through a thermoelectric-cooler-based thermal-tuning approach in a butterfly-packaged …

Optical data transmission at 44 terabits/s with a Kerr soliton crystal microcomb

M Tan, B Corcoran, X Xu, J Wu, A Boes… - … , Sub-Systems, and …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We report world record high data transmission over standard optical fiber from a single
optical source. We achieve a line rate of 44.2 Terabits per second (Tb/s) employing only the …

Directly accessing octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in an AlN microresonator

H Weng, J Liu, AA Afridi, J Li, J Dai, X Ma… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Self-referenced dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) based on optical microresonators offer
prominent characteristics allowing for various applications from precision measurement to …

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 …

Ultra-high bandwidth optical data transmission with a microcomb

M Tan, B Corcoran, X Xu, J Wu, A Boes… - … Topical Meeting on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report record data transmission over standard optical fibre using a single integrated chip
source. We demonstrate a line rate of 44.2 Terabits per second (Tb/s) using the …

Dark-bright soliton bound states in a microresonator

S Zhang, T Bi, GN Ghalanos, NP Moroney, L Del Bino… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Dissipative Kerr solitons in microresonators have facilitated the development of fully
coherent, chip-scale frequency combs. In addition, dark soliton pulses have been observed …

Soliton microcomb generation at 2 μm in z-cut lithium niobate microring resonators

Z Gong, X Liu, Y Xu, M Xu, JB Surya, J Lu, A Bruch… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Chip-based soliton frequency combs have been demonstrated on various material
platforms, offering broadband, mutually coherent, and equally spaced frequency lines …