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 …

Optical injection locking: From principle to applications

Z Liu, R Slavík - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - opg.optica.org
This paper reviews optical injection locking (OIL) of semiconductor lasers and its application
in optical communications and signal processing. Despite complex OIL dynamics, we …

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 …

Spatial multiplexing of soliton microcombs

E Lucas, G Lihachev, R Bouchand, NG Pavlov… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Dual-comb interferometry utilizes two optical frequency combs to map the optical field's
spectrum to a radio-frequency signal without using moving parts, allowing improved speed …

Radio-frequency line-by-line Fourier synthesis based on optical soliton microcombs

B Wang, Z Yang, S Sun, X Yi - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Radio-frequency (RF) waveform synthesis has broad applications in ultrawide-bandwidth
wireless communications, radar systems, and electronic testing. Photonic-based …

On-chip silicon photonic micro-ring processor lights up optical image encryption

Z Zhao, H Ouyang, J You, Z Tao, X Cheng, Y Tang… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Optical image encryption has long been an important concept in the fields of photonic
network processing and communication. Here, we propose a convolution-like operation …

Full recovery of ultrafast waveforms lost under noise

B Crockett, L Romero Cortés, SR Konatham… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to detect ultrafast waveforms arising from randomly occurring events is essential
to such diverse fields as bioimaging, spectroscopy, radio-astronomy, sensing and …

Dual frequency comb assisted analog-to-digital conversion

C Deakin, Z Liu - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Photonic analog to digital conversion offers promise to overcome the signal-to-noise ratio
and sample rate trade-off in conventional analog to digital converters (ADCs), critical for …

Passive amplification and noise mitigation of optical signals through Talbot processing

B Crockett, LR Cortés, J Azaña - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Noise is one of the rare aspects of experimental work that crosses all boundaries. It is
present from scientific fields like ultrafast optical signal detection to applied fields such as …

Architecture for integrated RF photonic downconversion of electronic signals

NP O'Malley, KA McKinzie, MS Alshaykh, J Liu… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Electronic analog to digital converters (ADCs) are running up against the well-known bit
depth versus bandwidth trade off. Towards this end, radio frequency (RF) photonic …