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 …

Breaking the temporal and frequency congestion of LiDAR by parallel chaos

R Chen, H Shu, B Shen, L Chang, W Xie, W Liao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The rising demand for high scanning accuracy and resolution in sensors for self-driving
vehicles has led to the rapid development of parallelization in light detection and ranging …

Quantifying the accuracy of microcomb-based photonic RF transversal signal processors

Y Sun, J Wu, Y Li, M Tan, X Xu, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic RF transversal signal processors, which are equivalent to reconfigurable electrical
digital signal processors but implemented with photonic technologies, are attractive for high …

Emerging material platforms for integrated microcavity photonics

J Liu, F Bo, L Chang, CH Dong, X Ou, B Regan… - Science China Physics …, 2022 - Springer
Many breakthroughs in technologies are closely associated with the deep understanding
and development of new material platforms. As the main material used in microelectronics …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Soliton formation and spectral translation into visible on CMOS-compatible 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform

C Wang, J Li, A Yi, Z Fang, L Zhou, Z Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advancements in integrated soliton microcombs open the route to a wide range of
chip-based communication, sensing, and metrology applications. The technology translation …

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 …

Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. 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 …