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 …

Chip-based optical frequency combs for high-capacity optical communications

H Hu, LK Oxenløwe - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Current fibre optic communication systems owe their high-capacity abilities to the
wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technique, which combines data channels running …

Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source

AA Jørgensen, D Kong, MR Henriksen, F Klejs, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical fibre communication is the backbone of the internet. As essential core technologies
are approaching their limits of size, speed and energy-efficiency, there is a need for new …

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 …

Foundry manufacturing of tight-confinement, dispersion-engineered, ultralow-loss silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits

Z Ye, H Jia, Z Huang, C Shen, J Long, B Shi… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The foundry development of integrated photonics has revolutionized today's optical
interconnect and datacenters. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the rising of silicon …

Coherent optical communications using coherence-cloned Kerr soliton microcombs

Y Geng, H Zhou, X Han, W Cui, Q Zhang, B Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr soliton microcombs have been recognized as a promising multi-wavelength
laser source for fiber optical communications, as their comb lines possess frequency and …

Nonlinear multimode photonics: nonlinear optics with many degrees of freedom

LG Wright, WH Renninger, DN Christodoulides… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The overall goal of photonics research is to understand and control light in new and richer
ways to facilitate new and richer applications. Many major developments to this end have …

High spectral efficiency coherent superchannel transmission with soliton microcombs

M Mazur, MG Suh, A Fülöp, J Schröder… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Spectral efficiency (SE) is one of the key metrics for optical communication networks. An
important building block for its maximization are optical superchannels, channels that are …

Frequency comb distillation for optical superchannel transmission

C Prayoonyong, A Boes, X Xu, M Tan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical frequency combs can potentially provide an efficient light source for multi-terabit-per-
second optical superchannels. However, as the bandwidth of these multi-wavelength light …

Chip-scale frequency combs for data communications in computing systems

Y Okawachi, BY Kim, M Lipson, AL Gaeta - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Recent developments in chip-based frequency-comb technology demonstrate that comb
devices can be implemented in applications where photonic integration and power …