Optical frequency combs: Coherently uniting the electromagnetic spectrum

SA Diddams, K Vahala, T Udem - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND The generation and control of coherent electromagnetic waves, such as
those provided by electronic oscillators in the radio frequency domain or lasers in the optical …

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 …

Self-emergence of robust solitons in a microcavity

M Rowley, PH Hanzard, A Cutrona, H Bao, ST Chu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In many disciplines, states that emerge in open systems far from equilibrium are determined
by a few global parameters,. These states can often mimic thermodynamic equilibrium, a …

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 …

Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source

B Corcoran, M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, J Wu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Micro-combs-optical frequency combs generated by integrated micro-cavity resonators–offer
the full potential of their bulk counterparts, but in an integrated footprint. They have enabled …

Massively parallel coherent laser ranging using a soliton microcomb

J Riemensberger, A Lukashchuk, M Karpov, W Weng… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Coherent ranging, also known as frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser-
based light detection and ranging (lidar) is used for long-range three-dimensional distance …

Photonic microwave generation in the X-and K-band using integrated soliton microcombs

J Liu, E Lucas, AS Raja, J He, J Riemensberger… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Microwave photonic technologies, which upshift the carrier into the optical domain, have
facilitated the generation and processing of ultra-wideband electronic signals at vastly …

Laser cavity-soliton microcombs

H Bao, A Cooper, M Rowley, L Di Lauro… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microcavity-based frequency combs, or 'microcombs',, have enabled many fundamental
breakthroughs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,–through the discovery of temporal cavity-solitons. These self …

Turing patterns in a fiber laser with a nested microresonator: Robust and controllable microcomb generation

H Bao, L Olivieri, M Rowley, ST Chu, BE Little… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Microcombs based on Turing patterns have been extensively studied in configurations that
can be modeled by the Lugiato-Lefever equation. Typically, such schemes are implemented …

[HTML][HTML] Stability of laser cavity-solitons for metrological applications

A Cutrona, M Rowley, A Bendahmane… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Laser cavity-solitons can appear in systems comprised of a nonlinear microcavity nested
within an amplifying fiber loop. These states are robust and self-emergent and constitute an …