Electro‐optic frequency combs: Theory, characteristics, and applications

R Zhuang, K Ni, G Wu, T Hao, L Lu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are a unique kind of light source, which are represented as
a series of equally spaced coherent spectral lines in the frequency domain. OFCs can …

Toward a new generation of radar systems based on microwave photonic technologies

G Serafino, F Scotti, L Lembo, B Hussain… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This paper reviews on the latest advances in microwave photonics applied to radar systems,
tracing the evolutions of functionalities in the photonic radar toward a new generation of …

Spatially multiplexed single-cavity dual-comb laser

J Pupeikis, B Willenberg, SL Camenzind, A Benayad… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Single-cavity dual-comb lasers are a new class of ultrafast lasers that have a wide possible
application space including pump–probe sampling, optical ranging, and gas absorption …

Photonic flywheel in a monolithic fiber resonator

K Jia, X Wang, D Kwon, J Wang, E Tsao, H Liu, X Ni… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate the first compact photonic flywheel with sub-fs time jitter (averaging times
up to 10 μ s) at the quantum-noise limit of a monolithic fiber resonator. Such quantum-limited …

Terahertz-rate Kerr-microresonator optical clockwork

TE Drake, TC Briles, JR Stone, DT Spencer… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Kerr microresonators generate interesting and useful fundamental states of electromagnetic
radiation through nonlinear interactions of continuous-wave (CW) laser light. With photonic …

Free-running Yb: KYW dual-comb oscillator in a MOPA architecture

SL Camenzind, T Sevim, B Willenberg, J Pupeikis… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Single-cavity dual-combs comprise a rapidly emerging technology platform suitable for a
wide range of applications like optical ranging, equivalent time sampling, and spectroscopy …

Amplitude noise suppression in Yb: doped NALM oscillators utilizing saturable absorber settings

VF Pecile, AS Mayer, JKC Ballentin, OH Heckl - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical frequency combs based on fiber lasers mode-locked (ML) with a nonlinear
amplifying loop mirror (NALM) have become the backbone of many cutting-edge …

Microwave photonics for remote sensing: From basic concepts to high-level functionalities

G Serafino, S Maresca, C Porzi, F Scotti… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In the last decades, photonic technologies have been increasingly proposed for microwave
and millimeter-wave applications, opening the way to the development of a new field of …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient pump-probe sampling with a single-cavity dual-comb laser: Application in ultrafast photoacoustics

J Pupeikis, W Hu, B Willenberg, M Mehendale… - Photoacoustics, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrafast pump-probe measurements are used to characterize various samples, such as
biological cells, bulk, and thin-film structures. However, typical implementations of the pump …

Noise measurement and reduction in mode-locked lasers: Fundamentals for low-noise optical frequency combs

H Tian, Y Song, M Hu - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
After five decades of development, mode-locked lasers have become significant building
blocks for many optical systems in scientific research, industry, and biomedicine. Advances …