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 …

Nonlocal bonding of a soliton and a blue-detuned state in a microcomb laser

A Cutrona, V Cecconi, PH Hanzard, M Rowley… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser cavity-solitons can appear in a microresonator-filtered laser when judiciously
balancing the slow nonlinearities of the system. Under certain conditions, such optical states …

Quantifying the accuracy of microcomb-based photonic RF transversal signal processors

Y Sun, J Wu, Y Li, M Tan, X Xu, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic RF transversal signal processors, which are equivalent to reconfigurable electrical
digital signal processors but implemented with photonic technologies, are attractive for high …

[HTML][HTML] Stability of laser cavity-solitons for metrological applications

A Cutrona, M Rowley, A Bendahmane… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Laser cavity-solitons can appear in systems comprised of a nonlinear microcavity nested
within an amplifying fiber loop. These states are robust and self-emergent and constitute an …

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 …

Architecture for the photonic integration of an optical atomic clock

ZL Newman, V Maurice, T Drake, JR Stone, TC Briles… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Laboratory optical atomic clocks achieve remarkable accuracy (now counted to 18 digits or
more), opening possibilities for exploring fundamental physics and enabling new …

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 …

Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

P Marin-Palomo, JN Kemal, M Karpov, A Kordts… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Solitons are waveforms that preserve their shape while propagating, as a result of a balance
of dispersion and nonlinearity,. Soliton-based data transmission schemes were investigated …

Self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb

Y He, QF Yang, J Ling, R Luo, H Liang, M Li, B Shen… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The wide range of functions that are possible with lithium niobate (LN) waveguide devices,
including phase and intensity modulation, second-harmonic generation, and difference …