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 …

Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

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 …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, ML Gorodetsky… - Nonlinear optical cavity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …

High spectral purity Kerr frequency comb radio frequency photonic oscillator

W Liang, D Eliyahu, VS Ilchenko… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Femtosecond laser-based generation of radio frequency signals has produced astonishing
improvements in achievable spectral purity, one of the basic features characterizing the …

Modeling of octave-spanning Kerr frequency combs using a generalized mean-field Lugiato–Lefever model

S Coen, HG Randle, T Sylvestre, M Erkintalo - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A generalized Lugiato–Lefever equation is numerically solved with a Newton–Raphson
method to model<? A3B2 show [pmg: line-break justify=" yes"/]?> Kerr frequency combs. We …

Nonlinear photonics with high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonators

G Lin, A Coillet, YK Chembo - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High-and ultrahigh-Q whispering-gallery mode resonators have the capability to trap
photons by total internal reflection for a duration ranging from nanoseconds to milliseconds …

Universal formation dynamics and noise of Kerr-frequency combs in microresonators

T Herr, K Hartinger, J Riemensberger, CY Wang… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs allow for the precise measurement of optical frequencies and are
used in a growing number of applications. The new class of Kerr-frequency comb sources …

Nonlinear and quantum optics with whispering gallery resonators

DV Strekalov, C Marquardt, AB Matsko… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical whispering gallery modes (WGMs) derive their name from a famous acoustic
phenomenon of guiding a wave by a curved boundary observed nearly a century ago. This …

Stability analysis of the spatiotemporal Lugiato-Lefever model for Kerr optical frequency combs in the anomalous and normal dispersion regimes

C Godey, IV Balakireva, A Coillet, YK Chembo - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We propose a detailed stability analysis of the Lugiato-Lefever model for Kerr optical
frequency combs in whispering-gallery-mode resonators when they are pumped in either …