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 …

[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 …

Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond

H Zhou, J Dong, J Cheng, W Dong, C Huang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Matrix computation, as a fundamental building block of information processing in science
and technology, contributes most of the computational overheads in modern signal …

Integrated lithium niobate microwave photonic processing engine

H Feng, T Ge, X Guo, B Wang, Y Zhang, Z Chen, S Zhu… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated microwave photonics (MWP) is an intriguing technology for the generation,
transmission and manipulation of microwave signals in chip-scale optical systems,. In …

High-power linear-polarization burst-mode all-fibre laser and generation of frequency-adjustable microwave signal

X He, B Zhang, S Liu, L Yang, J Yao, Q Wu… - High Power Laser …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Narrowband microwave generation with tuneable frequency is demonstrated by illuminating
a photoconductive semiconductor switch (PCSS) with a burst-mode fibre laser. The whole …

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 …

Photonic RF arbitrary waveform generator based on a soliton crystal micro-comb source

M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a photonic-based radio frequency (RF) arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) using
a soliton crystal micro-comb source with a free spectral range (FSR) of 48.9 GHz. The comb …

Frequency-bin photonic quantum information

HH Lu, M Liscidini, AL Gaeta, AM Weiner, JM Lukens - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Discrete frequency modes, or bins, present a blend of opportunities and challenges for
photonic quantum information processing. Frequency-bin-encoded photons are readily …

Quantum optical microcombs

M Kues, C Reimer, JM Lukens, WJ Munro… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A key challenge for quantum science and technology is to realize large-scale, precisely
controllable, practical systems for non-classical secured communications, metrology and …

Recent advances in laser self-injection locking to high-Q microresonators

NM Kondratiev, VE Lobanov, AE Shitikov, RR Galiev… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
The stabilization and manipulation of laser frequency by means of an external cavity are
nearly ubiquitously used in fundamental research and laser applications. While most of the …