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 …

Physics of highly multimode nonlinear optical systems

LG Wright, FO Wu, DN Christodoulides, FW Wise - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Linear multimode optical systems have enabled clean experimental observations and the
applications of numerous phenomena that continually extend the boundaries of wave …

Massively parallel coherent laser ranging using a soliton microcomb

J Riemensberger, A Lukashchuk, M Karpov, W Weng… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Coherent ranging, also known as frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser-
based light detection and ranging (lidar) is used for long-range three-dimensional distance …

Synthesized soliton crystals

Z Lu, HJ Chen, W Wang, L Yao, Y Wang, Y Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) featuring broadband coherent frequency comb with compact
size and low power consumption, provides an unparalleled tool for nonlinear physics …

Dynamics of soliton crystals in optical microresonators

M Karpov, MHP Pfeiffer, H Guo, W Weng, J Liu… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators combine nonlinear optical physics with
photonic-integrated technologies. They are promising for a number of applications ranging …

Advances in soliton microcomb generation

W Wang, L Wang, W Zhang - Advanced Photonics, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical frequency combs, a revolutionary light source characterized by discrete and equally
spaced frequencies, are usually regarded as a cornerstone for advanced frequency …

Compact, spatial-mode-interaction-free, ultralow-loss, nonlinear photonic integrated circuits

X Ji, J Liu, J He, RN Wang, Z Qiu… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Multi-mode waveguides are ubiquitously used in integrated photonics. Although interaction
among different spatial waveguide eigenmodes can induce novel nonlinear phenomena …

Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration

J Liu, AS Raja, M Karpov, B Ghadiani, MHP Pfeiffer… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators has provided a route to
compact frequency combs of high repetition rate, which have already been employed for …

Breathing dissipative solitons in optical microresonators

E Lucas, M Karpov, H Guo, ML Gorodetsky… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Dissipative solitons are self-localised structures resulting from the double balance of
dispersion by nonlinearity and dissipation by a driving force arising in numerous systems. In …

Multimode nonlinear fiber optics: massively parallel numerical solver, tutorial, and outlook

LG Wright, ZM Ziegler, PM Lushnikov… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building on the scientific understanding and technological infrastructure of single-mode
fibers, multimode fibers are being explored as a means of adding new degrees of freedom to …