Electro-optic frequency combs

A Parriaux, K Hammani, G Millot - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Frequency combs are optical spectra composed of a set of discrete equally spaced lines.
Such spectra can be generated by diverse sources such as mode-locked lasers, resonators …

Electro‐optic frequency combs: Theory, characteristics, and applications

R Zhuang, K Ni, G Wu, T Hao, L Lu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are a unique kind of light source, which are represented as
a series of equally spaced coherent spectral lines in the frequency domain. OFCs can …

A microphotonic astrocomb

E Obrzud, M Rainer, A Harutyunyan, MH Anderson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Earth-like planets, dark energy and variability of fundamental physical constants can be
discovered by observing wavelength shifts in the optical spectra of astronomical objects …

Searching for exoplanets using a microresonator astrocomb

MG Suh, X Yi, YH Lai, S Leifer, IS Grudinin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Orbiting planets induce a weak radial velocity (RV) shift in the host star that provides a
powerful method of planet detection. Importantly, the RV technique provides information …

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 …

Detecting exomoons from radial velocity measurements of self-luminous planets: application to observations of HR 7672 B and future prospects

JB Ruffio, K Horstman, D Mawet… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of satellites around extrasolar planets, so called exomoons, remains a largely
unexplored territory. In this work, we study the potential of detecting these elusive objects …

1550‐nm band soliton microcombs in ytterbium‐doped lithium‐niobate microrings

C Yang, S Yang, F Du, X Zeng, B Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Micro‐optical frequency combs are miniaturized coherent light sources exhibiting a
tremendous influence on precision spectroscopy, optical clocks, and high‐speed optical …

2023 astrophotonics roadmap: pathways to realizing multi-functional integrated astrophotonic instruments

N Jovanovic, P Gatkine, N Anugu… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic technologies offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize
astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity …

Electronic synthesis of light

K Beha, DC Cole, P Del'Haye, A Coillet, SA Diddams… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report on bidirectional frequency conversion between the microwave and optical
domains using electro-optics. Advances in communications, time kee**, and quantum …

A decade of astrocombs: recent advances in frequency combs for astronomy

RA McCracken, JM Charsley, DT Reid - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A new regime of precision radial-velocity measurements in the search for Earth-like
exoplanets is being facilitated by high-resolution spectrographs calibrated by laser …