Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

D Zhu, L Shao, M Yu, R Cheng, B Desiatov… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

AL Gaeta, M Lipson, TJ Kippenberg - nature photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Recent developments in chip-based nonlinear photonics offer the tantalizing prospect of
realizing many applications that can use optical frequency comb devices that have form …

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 …

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 …

Recent progress on mid-infrared pulsed fiber lasers and the applications

X Li, X Huang, X Hu, X Guo, Y Han - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, great progress has been made in the development of inexpensive,
compact and efficient mid-infrared pulsed fiber laser Q-switched, mode-locked, and gain …

Electro-optic frequency combs

A Parriaux, K Hammani, G Millot - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Frequency combs are optical spectra composed of a set of discrete equally spaced lines.
Such spectra can be generated by diverse sources such as mode-locked lasers, resonators …

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 …

Periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate microring resonators with a second-harmonic generation efficiency of 250,000%/W

J Lu, JB Surya, X Liu, AW Bruch, Z Gong, Y Xu… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), dubbed by many as the silicon of photonics, has recently risen to the
forefront of chip-scale nonlinear optics research since its demonstration as an ultralow-loss …

Spatiotemporal mode-locking in multimode fiber lasers

LG Wright, DN Christodoulides, FW Wise - Science, 2017 - science.org
A laser is based on the electromagnetic modes of its resonator, which provides the feedback
required for oscillation. Enormous progress has been made toward controlling the …

Optical atomic clocks

AD Ludlow, MM Boyd, J Ye, E Peik, PO Schmidt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Optical atomic clocks represent the state of the art in the frontier of modern measurement
science. In this article a detailed review on the development of optical atomic clocks that are …