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 …

Integrated optical frequency comb technologies

L Chang, S Liu, JE Bowers - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs offer an unrivalled degree of frequency measurement precision
that underpins the advance of modern technology in both fundamental science and …

[HTML][HTML] Sagnac interference in integrated photonics

H Arianfard, S Juodkazis, DJ Moss, J Wu - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
As a fundamental optical approach to interferometry, Sagnac interference has been widely
used for reflection manipulation, precision measurements, and spectral engineering in …

Battery-operated integrated frequency comb generator

B Stern, X Ji, Y Okawachi, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs are broadband sources that offer mutually coherent, equidistant
spectral lines with unprecedented precision in frequency and timing for an array of …

Large-scale integration of artificial atoms in hybrid photonic circuits

NH Wan, TJ Lu, KC Chen, MP Walsh, ME Trusheim… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A central challenge in develo** quantum computers and long-range quantum networks is
the distribution of entanglement across many individually controllable qubits. Colour centres …

Ultrafast optical ranging using microresonator soliton frequency combs

P Trocha, M Karpov, D Ganin, MHP Pfeiffer, A Kordts… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Light detection and ranging is widely used in science and industry. Over the past decade,
optical frequency combs were shown to offer advantages in optical ranging, enabling fast …

AlGaN photonics: recent advances in materials and ultraviolet devices

D Li, K Jiang, X Sun, C Guo - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2018 - opg.optica.org
AlGaN-based materials own direct transition energy bands and wide bandgap and thus can
be used in high-efficiency ultraviolet (UV) emitters and detectors. Over the past two decades …

RF photonics: an optical microcombs' perspective

J Wu, X Xu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, optical frequency combs generated by high-Q microresonators, or
optical microcombs, which feature compact device footprints, low power consumption, and …

Soliton microcomb range measurement

MG Suh, KJ Vahala - Science, 2018 - science.org
Laser-based range measurement systems are important in many application areas,
including autonomous vehicles, robotics, manufacturing, formation flying of satellites, and …

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 …