Microcomb-based integrated photonic processing unit

B Bai, Q Yang, H Shu, L Chang, F Yang, B Shen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of parallel convolution-operation technology has substantially powered the
complexity and functionality of optical neural networks (ONN) by harnessing the dimension …

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 …

Nonlocal bonding of a soliton and a blue-detuned state in a microcomb laser

A Cutrona, V Cecconi, PH Hanzard, M Rowley… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser cavity-solitons can appear in a microresonator-filtered laser when judiciously
balancing the slow nonlinearities of the system. Under certain conditions, such optical states …

Silicon carbide photonics bridging quantum technology

S Castelletto, A Peruzzo, C Bonato, BC Johnson… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the last two decades, bulk, homoepitaxial, and heteroepitaxial growth of silicon carbide
(SiC) has witnessed many advances, giving rise to electronic devices widely used in high …

Advances in resonator-based Kerr frequency combs with high conversion efficiencies

X Zhang, C Wang, Z Cheng, C Hu, X Ji, Y Su - npj Nanophotonics, 2024 - nature.com
Recent developments in resonator-based Kerr frequency combs promise excellent
applications in a wide range of fields such as biosensing, spectroscopy, optical …

Engineered zero-dispersion microcombs using CMOS-ready photonics

QX Ji, W Jin, L Wu, Y Yu, Z Yuan, W Zhang, M Gao, B Li… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Normal group velocity dispersion (GVD) microcombs offer high comb line power and high
pumping efficiency compared to bright pulse microcombs. The recent demonstration of …

Quantum decoherence of dark pulses in optical microresonators

C Lao, X Jin, L Chang, H Wang, Z Lv, W Xie… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum fluctuations disrupt the cyclic motions of dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in
nonlinear optical microresonators and consequently cause timing jitter of the emitted pulse …

[HTML][HTML] Chaotic microcomb inertia-free parallel ranging

A Lukashchuk, J Riemensberger, A Stroganov… - Apl Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The increasing demand for high pixel acquisition rates in the fields of augmented reality,
autonomous driving, and robotics has led to a growing interest in solid-state beam scanning …

The dissipative Talbot soliton fiber laser

H Zhang, Y Du, C Zeng, Z Sun, Y Zhang, J Zhao… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Talbot effect, characterized by the replication of a periodic optical field in a specific plane, is
governed by diffraction and dispersion in the spatial and temporal domains, respectively. In …

Turnkey photonic flywheel in a microresonator-filtered laser

M Nie, J Musgrave, K Jia, J Bartos, S Zhu, Z Xie… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) microcomb has emerged as an enabling technology that
revolutionizes a wide range of applications in both basic science and technological …