The physics of optical computing

PL McMahon - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing since the early 2010s, both in
academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centred around special-purpose …

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 …

Integrated optical frequency comb technologies

L Chang, S Liu, JE Bowers - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs offer an unrivalled degree of frequency measurement precision
that underpins the advance of modern technology in both fundamental science and …

Frequency ratio of the 229mTh nuclear isomeric transition and the 87Sr atomic clock

C Zhang, T Ooi, JS Higgins, JF Doyle, L von der Wense… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Optical atomic clocks, use electronic energy levels to precisely keep track of time. A clock
based on nuclear energy levels promises a next-generation platform for precision metrology …

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 …

Genetic algorithm-enhanced microcomb state generation

C Mazoukh, L Di Lauro, I Alamgir, B Fischer… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Microcavities enable the generation of highly efficient microcombs, which find applications in
various domains, such as high-precision metrology, sensing, and telecommunications. Such …

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

C **ang, J Liu, J Guo, L Chang, RN Wang, W Weng… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-
based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser …

Silicon nitride passive and active photonic integrated circuits: trends and prospects

C **ang, W **, JE Bowers - Photonics research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The use of silicon nitride in integrated photonics has rapidly progressed in recent decades.
Ultra-low-loss waveguides based on silicon nitride are a favorable platform for the research …

Whispering-gallery-mode sensors for biological and physical sensing

D Yu, M Humar, K Meserve, RC Bailey… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The term whispering gallery mode (WGM) was first introduced to describe the curvilinear
propagation of sound waves under a cathedral dome. The physical concept has now been …

Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Y Shen, Q Zhan, LG Wright, DN Christodoulides… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a
major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as …