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 …

Lithium niobate photonics: Unlocking the electromagnetic spectrum

A Boes, L Chang, C Langrock, M Yu, M Zhang, Q Lin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Lithium niobate (LN), first synthesized 70 years ago, has been widely used in diverse
applications ranging from communications to quantum optics. These high-volume …

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 …

Frequency comb spectroscopy

N Picqué, TW Hänsch - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Optical atomic clocks

AD Ludlow, MM Boyd, J Ye, E Peik, PO Schmidt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Optical atomic clocks represent the state of the art in the frontier of modern measurement
science. In this article a detailed review on the development of optical atomic clocks that are …

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 …

Dual-comb spectroscopy

I Coddington, N Newbury, W Swann - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Dual-comb spectroscopy is an emerging new spectroscopic tool that exploits the frequency
resolution, frequency accuracy, broad bandwidth, and brightness of frequency combs for …

20 years of developments in optical frequency comb technology and applications

T Fortier, E Baumann - Communications Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs were developed nearly two decades ago to support the world's
most precise atomic clocks. Acting as precision optical synthesizers, frequency combs …

Search for new physics with atoms and molecules

MS Safronova, D Budker, D DeMille, DFJ Kimball… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
This article reviews recent developments in tests of fundamental physics using atoms and
molecules, including the subjects of parity violation, searches for permanent electric dipole …

Mid-infrared frequency combs

A Schliesser, N Picqué, TW Hänsch - Nature photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Laser frequency combs are coherent light sources that emit a broad spectrum of discrete,
evenly spaced narrow lines whose absolute frequency can be measured to within the …