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 …

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 …

Photonic radio frequency channelizers based on Kerr optical micro-combs

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent work on broadband RF channelizers based on integrated optical
frequency Kerr micro-combs combined with passive micro-ring resonator filters, with …

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 …

Dual-comb spectroscopy

I Coddington, N Newbury, W Swann - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Dual-comb spectroscopy is an emerging new spectroscopic tool that exploits the frequency
resolution, frequency accuracy, broad bandwidth, and brightness of frequency combs for …

Broadband RF channelizer based on an integrated optical frequency Kerr comb source

X Xu, J Wu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu, BE Little… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We report a broadband RF channelizer based on an integrated optical frequency Kerr micro-
comb source, with an RF channelizing bandwidth of 90 GHz, a high RF spectral slice …

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 …

Electro-optic frequency combs

A Parriaux, K Hammani, G Millot - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Frequency combs are optical spectra composed of a set of discrete equally spaced lines.
Such spectra can be generated by diverse sources such as mode-locked lasers, resonators …

Neuromorphic computing based on wavelength-division multiplexing

X Xu, W Han, M Tan, Y Sun, Y Li, J Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical neural networks (ONNs), or optical neuromorphic hardware accelerators, have the
potential to dramatically enhance the computing power and energy efficiency of mainstream …

On-chip dual-comb source for spectroscopy

A Dutt, C Joshi, X Ji, J Cardenas, Y Okawachi… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Dual-comb spectroscopy is a powerful technique for real-time, broadband optical sampling
of molecular spectra, which requires no moving components. Recent developments with …