Optical frequency combs offer an unrivalled degree of frequency measurement precision
that underpins the advance of modern technology in both fundamental science and …

BACKGROUND The generation and control of coherent electromagnetic waves, such as
those provided by electronic oscillators in the radio frequency domain or lasers in the optical …

In many disciplines, states that emerge in open systems far from equilibrium are determined
by a few global parameters,. These states can often mimic thermodynamic equilibrium, a …

The rising demand for high scanning accuracy and resolution in sensors for self-driving
vehicles has led to the rapid development of parallelization in light detection and ranging …

Microcombs have sparked a surge of applications over the past decade, ranging from optical
communications to metrology,,–. Despite their diverse deployment, most microcomb-based …

Optical fibre communication is the backbone of the internet. As essential core technologies
are approaching their limits of size, speed and energy-efficiency, there is a need for new …

Microwave photonic technologies, which upshift the carrier into the optical domain, have
facilitated the generation and processing of ultra-wideband electronic signals at vastly …

Laboratory optical atomic clocks achieve remarkable accuracy (now counted to 18 digits or
more), opening possibilities for exploring fundamental physics and enabling new …

The wide range of functions that are possible with lithium niobate (LN) waveguide devices,
including phase and intensity modulation, second-harmonic generation, and difference …

This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …