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 …

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 …

Tailoring microcombs with inverse-designed, meta-dispersion microresonators

E Lucas, SP Yu, TC Briles, DR Carlson, SB Papp - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear wave mixing in optical microresonators offers new perspectives to generate
compact optical-frequency microcombs, which enable an ever-growing number of …

Fourier synthesis dispersion engineering of photonic crystal microrings for broadband frequency combs

G Moille, X Lu, J Stone, D Westly… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Dispersion engineering of microring resonators is crucial for optical frequency comb
applications, to achieve targeted bandwidths and powers of individual comb teeth. However …

Soliton pulse pairs at multiple colours in normal dispersion microresonators

Z Yuan, M Gao, Y Yu, H Wang, W Jin, QX Ji… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soliton microcombs are helping to advance the miniaturization of a range of comb systems.
These combs mode lock through the formation of short temporal pulses in anomalous …

Chip-scale spontaneous quasi-phase matched second harmonic generation in a micro-racetrack resonator

T Yuan, J Wu, Y Liu, X Yan, H Jiang, H Li… - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we demonstrate efficient spontaneous quasi-phase matched (SQPM) second
harmonic generation (SHG) in a micro-racetrack resonator on X-cut thin film lithium niobate …

Silicon nitride-based Kerr frequency combs and applications in metrology

Z Sun, Y Li, B Bai, Z Zhu, H Sun - Advanced Photonics, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Kerr frequency combs have been attracting significant interest due to their rich physics and
broad applications in metrology, microwave photonics, and telecommunications. In this …

Inverse design of soliton microcomb based on genetic algorithm and deep learning

C Zhang, G Kang, J Wang, Y Pan, J Qu - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Soliton microcombs generated by the third-order nonlinearity of microresonators exhibit high
coherence, low noise, and stable spectra envelopes, which can be designed for many …

Nonlinear localization of dissipative modulation instability

AU Nielsen, Y Xu, C Todd, M Ferré, MG Clerc… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Modulation instability (MI) in the presence of noise typically leads to an irreversible and
complete disintegration of a plane wave background. Here we report on experiments …

Pure-quartic soliton attracted state and multi-soliton molecules in mode-locked fiber lasers

JH Zhang, HQ Qin, ZZ Si, YH Jia, NA Kudryashov… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article explores the dynamic model of pure-quartic solitons (PQSs) in mode-locked fiber
lasers. Firstly, the formation and dynamic behavior of the PQS attracted state in fiber lasers …