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 …

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 …

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 …

Nonlocal bonding of a soliton and a blue-detuned state in a microcomb laser

A Cutrona, V Cecconi, PH Hanzard, M Rowley… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser cavity-solitons can appear in a microresonator-filtered laser when judiciously
balancing the slow nonlinearities of the system. Under certain conditions, such optical states …

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 …

Turing patterns in a fiber laser with a nested microresonator: Robust and controllable microcomb generation

H Bao, L Olivieri, M Rowley, ST Chu, BE Little… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Microcombs based on Turing patterns have been extensively studied in configurations that
can be modeled by the Lugiato-Lefever equation. Typically, such schemes are implemented …

[HTML][HTML] Stability of laser cavity-solitons for metrological applications

A Cutrona, M Rowley, A Bendahmane… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Laser cavity-solitons can appear in systems comprised of a nonlinear microcavity nested
within an amplifying fiber loop. These states are robust and self-emergent and constitute an …

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 …

Ultra-efficient frequency comb generation in AlGaAs-on-insulator microresonators

L Chang, W **e, H Shu, QF Yang, B Shen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent advances in nonlinear optics have revolutionized integrated photonics, providing on-
chip solutions to a wide range of new applications. Currently, state of the art integrated …

Self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb

Y He, QF Yang, J Ling, R Luo, H Liang, M Li, B Shen… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The wide range of functions that are possible with lithium niobate (LN) waveguide devices,
including phase and intensity modulation, second-harmonic generation, and difference …