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 …

Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

Post-2000 nonlinear optical materials and measurements: data tables and best practices

N Vermeulen, D Espinosa, A Ball… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …

Versatile optical frequency division with Kerr-induced synchronization at tunable microcomb synthetic dispersive waves

G Moille, P Shandilya, A Niang, C Menyuk, G Carter… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Kerr-induced synchronization (KIS) provides a key tool for the control and stabilization of a
dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) frequency comb, enabled by the capture of a comb tooth by an …

Ultrashort dissipative Raman solitons in Kerr resonators driven with phase-coherent optical pulses

Z Li, Y Xu, S Shamailov, X Wen, W Wang, X Wei… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
External driving of passive, nonlinear optical resonators has emerged over the past decade
as a novel route for the generation of ultrashort optical pulses and corresponding broadband …

A perspective on nonlinear, microwave, and quantum photonics with Kerr microcombs

YK Chembo, E Heidari, CR Menyuk - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Microresonator Kerr optical frequency combs currently constitute a well-established
research area in integrated, nonlinear, and quantum photonics. These systems have found a …

Kerr-induced synchronization of a cavity soliton to an optical reference

G Moille, J Stone, M Chojnacky, R Shrestha, UA Javid… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The phase-coherent frequency division of a stabilized optical reference laser to the
microwave domain is made possible by optical-frequency combs (OFCs),. OFC-based …

Fourier synthesis dispersion engineering of photonic crystal microrings for broadband frequency combs

G Moille, X Lu, J Stone, D Westly… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Dispersion engineering of microring resonators is crucial for optical frequency comb
applications, to achieve targeted bandwidths and powers of individual comb teeth. However …

Broadband high-Q multimode silicon concentric racetrack resonators for widely tunable Raman lasers

Y Zhang, K Zhong, X Zhou, HK Tsang - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Multimode silicon resonators with ultralow propagation losses for ultrahigh quality (Q) factors
have been attracting attention recently. However, conventional multimode silicon resonators …

Broadband Kerr frequency comb in fiber Fabry-Perot resonators induced by switching waves

T Bunel, M Conforti, J Lumeau, A Moreau, A Mussot - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We report the generation of broadband frequency combs in fiber Fabry-Perot resonators in
the normal dispersion regime enabled by the excitation of switching waves. We theoretically …