Roadmap** the next generation of silicon photonics

S Shekhar, W Bogaerts, L Chrostowski… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in
optical communications. The current generation has led to a proliferation of integrated …

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 …

Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth chip-scale lasers from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths

M Corato-Zanarella, A Gil-Molina, X Ji, MC Shin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth lasers at visible wavelengths are necessary for
applications such as quantum optics, optical clocks and atomic and molecular physics. At …

Integrated optical frequency division for microwave and mmWave generation

S Sun, B Wang, K Liu, MW Harrington, F Tabatabaei… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The generation of ultra-low-noise microwave and mmWave in miniaturized, chip-based
platforms can transform communication, radar and sensing systems,–. Optical frequency …

3D integration enables ultralow-noise isolator-free lasers in silicon photonics

C **ang, W **, O Terra, B Dong, H Wang, L Wu, J Guo… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic integrated circuits are widely used in applications such as telecommunications and
data-centre interconnects,,,–. However, in optical systems such as microwave synthesizers …

Photonic chip-based low-noise microwave oscillator

I Kudelin, W Groman, QX Ji, J Guo, ML Kelleher, D Lee… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Numerous modern technologies are reliant on the low-phase noise and exquisite timing
stability of microwave signals. Substantial progress has been made in the field of microwave …

Integrated microcavity electric field sensors using Pound-Drever-Hall detection

X Ma, Z Cai, C Zhuang, X Liu, Z Zhang, K Liu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Discerning weak electric fields has important implications for cosmology, quantum
technology, and identifying power system failures. Photonic integration of electric field …

Linewidth narrowing in self-injection-locked on-chip lasers

E Alkhazraji, WW Chow, F Grillot, JE Bowers… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Stable laser emission with narrow linewidth is of critical importance in many applications,
including coherent communications, LIDAR, and remote sensing. In this work, the physics …

Unified laser stabilization and isolation on a silicon chip

AD White, GH Ahn, R Luhtaru, J Guo, TJ Morin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Rapid progress in photonics has led to an explosion of integrated devices that promise to
deliver the same performance as table-top technology at the nanoscale, heralding the next …

Micro-fabricated mirrors with finesse exceeding one million

N **, CA McLemore, D Mason, JP Hendrie, Y Luo… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The Fabry–Perot resonator is one of the most widely used optical devices, enabling scientific
and technological breakthroughs in diverse fields including cavity quantum electrodynamics …