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 …

Graphene oxide for nonlinear integrated photonics

Y Zhang, J Wu, L Jia, Y Qu, Y Yang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated photonic devices operating via optical nonlinearities offer a powerful solution for
all‐optical information processing, yielding processing speeds that are well beyond that of …

11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks

X Xu, M Tan, B Corcoran, J Wu, A Boes, TG Nguyen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Convolutional neural networks, inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful
category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features of raw data to …

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

C Xiang, J Liu, J Guo, L Chang, RN Wang, W Weng… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-
based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser …

Photonic microwave generation in the X-and K-band using integrated soliton microcombs

J Liu, E Lucas, AS Raja, J He, J Riemensberger… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Microwave photonic technologies, which upshift the carrier into the optical domain, have
facilitated the generation and processing of ultra-wideband electronic signals at vastly …

Photonic RF arbitrary waveform generator based on a soliton crystal micro-comb source

M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a photonic-based radio frequency (RF) arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) using
a soliton crystal micro-comb source with a free spectral range (FSR) of 48.9 GHz. The comb …

Photonic perceptron based on a Kerr Microcomb for high‐speed, scalable, optical neural networks

X Xu, M Tan, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Optical artificial neural networks (ONNs)—analog computing hardware tailored for machine
learning—have significant potential for achieving ultra‐high computing speed and energy …

Orthogonally polarized RF optical single sideband generation with integrated ring resonators

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent work on narrowband orthogonally polarized optical RF single sideband
generators as well as dual-channel equalization, both based on high-Q integrated ring …

Broadband photonic RF channelizer with 92 channels based on a soliton crystal microcomb

X Xu, M Tan, J Wu, A Boes, TG Nguyen… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report a broadband radio frequency (RF) channelizer with up to 92 channels using a
coherent microcomb source. A soliton crystal microcomb, generated by a 49 GHz micro-ring …

Photonic RF and microwave integrator based on a transversal filter with soliton crystal microcombs

X Xu, M Tan, J Wu, A Boes, B Corcoran… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a photonic RF integrator based on an integrated soliton crystal micro-comb
source. By multicasting and progressively delaying the input RF signal using a transversal …