Interdisciplinary advances in microcombs: bridging physics and information technology

BC Yao, WT Wang, ZD **e, Q Zhou, T Tan, H Zhou… - eLight, 2024 - Springer
The advancement of microcomb sources, which serve as a versatile and powerful platform
for various time–frequency measurements, have spurred widespread interest across …

Coherently parallel fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing using dual Kerr soliton microcombs

JT Li, B Chang, JT Du, T Tan, Y Geng, H Zhou… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has proven to be a revolutionary technology
for the detection of seismic and acoustic waves with ultralarge scale and ultrahigh sensitivity …

Noise canceled graphene-microcavity fiber laser sensor for ultrasensitive gas detection

Y Wang, Y Li, Y Li, H Zhang, Z Liu, Y Guo… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcavities offer a promising platform for highly efficient light–matter interactions.
Recently, the combination of microresonators and 2D materials in the nanoscale has further …

Microcombs in fiber Fabry–Pérot cavities

J Musgrave, SW Huang, M Nie - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Optical frequency combs, which consist of precisely controlled spectral lines covering a wide
range, have played a crucial role in enabling numerous scientific advancements. Beyond …

Taming Brillouin Optomechanics Using Supermode Microresonators

M Wang, ZG Hu, C Lao, Y Wang, X **, X Zhou, Y Lei… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Electrostrictive Brillouin scattering provides a ubiquitous mechanism to optically excite high-
frequency (> 10 GHz), bulk acoustic phonons that are robust to surface-induced losses …

[HTML][HTML] Brillouin lasers in a graphene microresonator for multispecies and individual gas molecule detection

N An, Y Li, H Zhang, Y Liang, T Tan, Y Guo, Z Liu… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Optical microcavities offer a promising platform for highly efficient light–matter interactions.
Recently, the combination of microresonators and 2D materials in nanoscale has further …

Dispersive Fourier transform based dual-comb ranging

B Chang, T Tan, J Du, X He, Y Liang, Z Liu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Laser-based light detection and ranging (LIDAR) offers a powerful tool to real-timely map
spatial information with exceptional accuracy and owns various applications ranging from …

Turnkey photonic flywheel in a microresonator-filtered laser

M Nie, J Musgrave, K Jia, J Bartos, S Zhu, Z **e… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) microcomb has emerged as an enabling technology that
revolutionizes a wide range of applications in both basic science and technological …

Dual-comb source with a reconfigurable repetition frequency difference using intracavity Brillouin lasers

Y Shi, YD Yang, T Wang, HD Wei, JL **ao… - Photonics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A Brillouin-assisted 80-GHz-spaced dual-comb source with a reconfigurable repetition
frequency difference ranging from 48 MHz to 1.486 GHz is demonstrated. Two pairs of dual …

Controllable Brillouin laser and Brillouin-Kerr microcombs

Q Kuang, C **e, M Wang, F Ouyang, Z Guo, B Wei… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Backward-stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in microcavities has sparked interest in
nonlinear optical physics and its associated applications. In this study, utilizing a hybrid …