Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

The silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4) planar waveguide platform has enabled a broad class of low-
loss planar-integrated devices and chip-scale solutions that benefit from transparency over a …

Solitons are waveforms that preserve their shape while propagating, as a result of a balance
of dispersion and nonlinearity,. Soliton-based data transmission schemes were investigated …

Microresonator frequency combs harness the nonlinear Kerr effect in an integrated optical
cavity to generate a multitude of phase-locked frequency lines. The line spacing can reach …

High performance organic electro‐optic (OEO) materials enable ultrahigh bandwidth, small
footprint, and extremely low drive voltage in silicon‐organic hybrid and plasmonic‐organic …

Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are a unique kind of light source, which are represented as
a series of equally spaced coherent spectral lines in the frequency domain. OFCs can …

In this brief review, nonlinear optical (NLO) chromophores widely used in electro-optic (EO)
devices are summarized according to their EO coefficients. The advances of EO modulators …

Chip-scale integration of electronics and photonics is recognized as important to the future
of information technology, as is the exploitation of the best properties of electronics …

The experimental realization of a Kerr frequency comb represented the convergence of
research in materials, physics, and engineering. This symbiotic relationship continues to …

Elastic optical networks (EON) have been proposed to meet the network capacity and
dynamicity challenges. Hardware and software resource optimization and re-configurability …