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 …

Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

RF photonics: an optical microcombs' perspective

J Wu, X Xu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, optical frequency combs generated by high-Q microresonators, or
optical microcombs, which feature compact device footprints, low power consumption, and …

High spectral purity Kerr frequency comb radio frequency photonic oscillator

W Liang, D Eliyahu, VS Ilchenko… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Femtosecond laser-based generation of radio frequency signals has produced astonishing
improvements in achievable spectral purity, one of the basic features characterizing the …

Temporal solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, V Brasch, JD Jost, CY Wang, NM Kondratiev… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Temporal dissipative solitons in a continuous-wave laser-driven nonlinear optical
microresonator were observed. The solitons were generated spontaneously when the laser …

Temporal solitons in microresonators driven by optical pulses

E Obrzud, S Lecomte, T Herr - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Continuous-wave laser-driven, high-Q Kerr–nonlinear optical microresonators have enabled
the generation of optical frequency combs, ultralow-noise microwaves and ultrashort optical …

Microresonator frequency comb optical clock

SB Papp, K Beha, P Del'Haye, F Quinlan, H Lee… - Optica, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Optical frequency combs serve as the clockwork of optical clocks, which are now the best
time-kee** systems in existence. The use of precise optical time and frequency …

Nonlinear photonics with high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonators

G Lin, A Coillet, YK Chembo - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High-and ultrahigh-Q whispering-gallery mode resonators have the capability to trap
photons by total internal reflection for a duration ranging from nanoseconds to milliseconds …

Microwave synthesizer using an on-chip Brillouin oscillator

J Li, H Lee, KJ Vahala - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
Low-phase-noise microwave oscillators are important to a wide range of subjects, including
communications, radar and metrology. Photonic-based microwave-wave sources now …

Phase-coherent microwave-to-optical link with a self-referenced microcomb

P Del'Haye, A Coillet, T Fortier, K Beha, DC Cole… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Precise measurements of the frequencies of light waves have become common with mode-
locked laser frequency combs. Despite their huge success, optical frequency combs …