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 …

Third-order optical nonlinearities of 2D materials at telecommunications wavelengths

L Jia, J Wu, Y Zhang, Y Qu, B Jia, DJ Moss - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
All-optical signal processing based on nonlinear optical devices is promising for ultrafast
information processing in optical communication systems. Recent advances in two …

Integrated lithium niobate microwave photonic processing engine

H Feng, T Ge, X Guo, B Wang, Y Zhang, Z Chen, S Zhu… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated microwave photonics (MWP) is an intriguing technology for the generation,
transmission and manipulation of microwave signals in chip-scale optical systems,. In …

Quantifying the accuracy of microcomb-based photonic RF transversal signal processors

Y Sun, J Wu, Y Li, M Tan, X Xu, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic RF transversal signal processors, which are equivalent to reconfigurable electrical
digital signal processors but implemented with photonic technologies, are attractive for high …

Photonic perceptron based on a Kerr Microcomb for high‐speed, scalable, optical neural networks

X Xu, M Tan, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Optical artificial neural networks (ONNs)—analog computing hardware tailored for machine
learning—have significant potential for achieving ultra‐high computing speed and energy …

Photonic RF arbitrary waveform generator based on a soliton crystal micro-comb source

M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, B Corcoran, J Wu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a photonic-based radio frequency (RF) arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) using
a soliton crystal micro-comb source with a free spectral range (FSR) of 48.9 GHz. The comb …

Integral order photonic RF signal processors based on a soliton crystal micro-comb source

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, B Corcoran, A Boes… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Soliton crystal micro-combs are powerful tools as sources of multiple wavelength channels
for radio frequency (RF) signal processing. They offer a compact device footprint, a large …

Broadband photonic RF channelizer with 92 channels based on a soliton crystal microcomb

X Xu, M Tan, J Wu, A Boes, TG Nguyen… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report a broadband radio frequency (RF) channelizer with up to 92 channels using a
coherent microcomb source. A soliton crystal microcomb, generated by a 49 GHz micro-ring …

Photonic RF and microwave integrator based on a transversal filter with soliton crystal microcombs

X Xu, M Tan, J Wu, A Boes, B Corcoran… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a photonic RF integrator based on an integrated soliton crystal micro-comb
source. By multicasting and progressively delaying the input RF signal using a transversal …

Neuromorphic computing based on wavelength-division multiplexing

X Xu, W Han, M Tan, Y Sun, Y Li, J Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical neural networks (ONNs), or optical neuromorphic hardware accelerators, have the
potential to dramatically enhance the computing power and energy efficiency of mainstream …