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 …

Integrated metasurfaces for re-envisioning a near-future disruptive optical platform

Y Yang, J Seong, M Choi, J Park, G Kim… - Light: Science & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Metasurfaces have been continuously garnering attention in both scientific and industrial
fields, owing to their unprecedented wavefront manipulation capabilities using arranged …

A progress review on solid‐state LiDAR and nanophotonics‐based LiDAR sensors

N Li, CP Ho, J Xue, LW Lim, G Chen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors enable precision sensing of an object in 3D.
LiDAR technology is widely used in metrology, environment monitoring, archaeology, and …

Metasurface-driven full-space structured light for three-dimensional imaging

G Kim, Y Kim, J Yun, SW Moon, S Kim, J Kim… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Structured light (SL)-based depth-sensing technology illuminates the objects with an array of
dots, and backscattered light is monitored to extract three-dimensional information …

Nanophotonics for light detection and ranging technology

I Kim, RJ Martins, J Jang, T Badloe, S Khadir… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, a laser-based imaging technique for
accurate distance measurement, is considered one of the most crucial sensor technologies …

Switchable Single- to Multiwavelength Conventional Soliton and Bound-State Soliton Generated from a NbTe2 Saturable Absorber-Based Passive Mode-Locked …

Z Hui, A Wu, D Han, T Li, L Li, J Gong… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
As a member of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), NbTe2 has a work function of 5.32
eV and a band gap of 0 eV at the Fermi level, which enables it to possess broadband …

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 …

20 years of developments in optical frequency comb technology and applications

T Fortier, E Baumann - Communications Physics, 2019‏ - nature.com
Optical frequency combs were developed nearly two decades ago to support the world's
most precise atomic clocks. Acting as precision optical synthesizers, frequency combs …

The time-programmable frequency comb and its use in quantum-limited ranging

ED Caldwell, LC Sinclair, NR Newbury, JD Deschenes - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Two decades after its invention, the classic self-referenced frequency comb laser is an
unrivalled ruler for frequency, time and distance metrology owing to the rigid spacing of its …

Ultrafast optical ranging using microresonator soliton frequency combs

P Trocha, M Karpov, D Ganin, MHP Pfeiffer, A Kordts… - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
Light detection and ranging is widely used in science and industry. Over the past decade,
optical frequency combs were shown to offer advantages in optical ranging, enabling fast …