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 …

Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

AL Gaeta, M Lipson, TJ Kippenberg - nature photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Recent developments in chip-based nonlinear photonics offer the tantalizing prospect of
realizing many applications that can use optical frequency comb devices that have form …

Synthesized soliton crystals

Z Lu, HJ Chen, W Wang, L Yao, Y Wang, Y Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) featuring broadband coherent frequency comb with compact
size and low power consumption, provides an unparalleled tool for nonlinear physics …

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 …

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 …

Neuromorphic computing based on wavelength-division multiplexing

X Xu, W Han, M Tan, Y Sun, Y Li, J Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical neural networks (ONNs), or optical neuromorphic hardware accelerators, have the
potential to dramatically enhance the computing power and energy efficiency of mainstream …

Emerging material platforms for integrated microcavity photonics

J Liu, F Bo, L Chang, CH Dong, X Ou, B Regan… - Science China Physics …, 2022 - Springer
Many breakthroughs in technologies are closely associated with the deep understanding
and development of new material platforms. As the main material used in microelectronics …

Soliton bursts and deterministic dissipative Kerr soliton generation in auxiliary-assisted microcavities

H Zhou, Y Geng, W Cui, SW Huang, Q Zhou… - Light: Science & …, 2019 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr solitons in resonant frequency combs offer a promising route for ultrafast
mode-locking, precision spectroscopy and time-frequency standards. The dynamics for the …

Breathing dissipative solitons in mode-locked fiber lasers

J Peng, S Boscolo, Z Zhao, H Zeng - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Dissipative solitons are self-localized coherent structures arising from the balance between
energy supply and dissipation. Besides stationary dissipative solitons, there are dynamical …

Temporal solitons in microresonators driven by optical pulses

E Obrzud, S Lecomte, T Herr - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Continuous-wave laser-driven, high-Q Kerr–nonlinear optical microresonators have enabled
the generation of optical frequency combs, ultralow-noise microwaves and ultrashort optical …