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 …

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 …

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 …

Photonic chip-based low-noise microwave oscillator

I Kudelin, W Groman, QX Ji, J Guo, ML Kelleher, D Lee… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Numerous modern technologies are reliant on the low-phase noise and exquisite timing
stability of microwave signals. Substantial progress has been made in the field of microwave …

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 …

Genetic algorithm-enhanced microcomb state generation

C Mazoukh, L Di Lauro, I Alamgir, B Fischer… - Communications …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Microcavities enable the generation of highly efficient microcombs, which find applications in
various domains, such as high-precision metrology, sensing, and telecommunications. Such …

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 …

Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source

B Corcoran, M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, J Wu… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Micro-combs-optical frequency combs generated by integrated micro-cavity resonators–offer
the full potential of their bulk counterparts, but in an integrated footprint. They have enabled …

[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 …

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 …