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 …

A laser frequency comb is a broad spectrum composed of equidistant narrow lines. Initially
invented for frequency metrology, such combs enable new approaches to spectroscopy over …

Mid-infrared optical frequency combs are of significant interest for molecular spectroscopy
due to the large absorption of molecular vibrational modes on the one hand, and the ability …

Directly accessing the middle infrared, the molecular functional group spectral region, via
supercontinuum generation processes based on turn-key fiber lasers offers the undeniable …

Efficient on-chip molecule and bio-agent detection can be achieved by accessing strong
molecular absorption lines in the mid-infrared, but it requires high output power broadband …

Silicon has been the material of choice of the photonics industry over the last decade due to
its easy integration with silicon electronics, high index contrast, small footprint, and low cost …

Silicon has attracted great interest as a platform for both linear and nonlinear integrated
photonics for over 15 years. While its primary applications have been in the telecom window …

Mid-infrared (mid-IR) frequency combs have broad applications in molecular spectroscopy
and chemical/biological sensing. Recently developed microresonator-based combs in this …

Laser frequency combs, sources with a spectrum consisting of hundred thousands evenly
spaced narrow lines, have an exhilarating potential for new approaches to molecular …

We demonstrate the generation of a supercontinuum spanning more than 1.4 octaves in a
silicon nitride waveguide using sub-100-fs pulses at 1 μm generated by either a 53-MHz …