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 …

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 …

11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks

X Xu, M Tan, B Corcoran, J Wu, A Boes, TG Nguyen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Convolutional neural networks, inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful
category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features of raw data to …

Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core

J Feldmann, N Youngblood, M Karpov, H Gehring, X Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
With the proliferation of ultrahigh-speed mobile networks and internet-connected devices,
along with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the world is generating exponentially …

Microcomb-driven silicon photonic systems

H Shu, L Chang, Y Tao, B Shen, W **e, M **… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Microcombs have sparked a surge of applications over the past decade, ranging from optical
communications to metrology,,–. Despite their diverse deployment, most microcomb-based …

Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

D Zhu, L Shao, M Yu, R Cheng, B Desiatov… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

A photonic integrated circuit–based erbium-doped amplifier

Y Liu, Z Qiu, X Ji, A Lukashchuk, J He… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser
technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic …

Self-emergence of robust solitons in a microcavity

M Rowley, PH Hanzard, A Cutrona, H Bao, ST Chu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In many disciplines, states that emerge in open systems far from equilibrium are determined
by a few global parameters,. These states can often mimic thermodynamic equilibrium, a …

Optical frequency combs: Coherently uniting the electromagnetic spectrum

SA Diddams, K Vahala, T Udem - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND The generation and control of coherent electromagnetic waves, such as
those provided by electronic oscillators in the radio frequency domain or lasers in the optical …

Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

AL Gaeta, M Lipson, TJ Kippenberg - nature photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Recent developments in chip-based nonlinear photonics offer the tantalizing prospect of
realizing many applications that can use optical frequency comb devices that have form …