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 …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Visible-to-ultraviolet frequency comb generation in lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides

TH Wu, L Ledezma, C Fredrick, P Sekhar, R Sekine… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The introduction of nonlinear nanophotonic devices to the field of optical frequency comb
metrology has enabled new opportunities for low-power and chip-integrated clocks, high …

Pockels soliton microcomb

AW Bruch, X Liu, Z Gong, JB Surya, M Li, CL Zou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Kerr soliton microcombs have recently emerged as a prominent topic in integrated photonics
and have enabled new horizons for optical frequency metrology. Kerr soliton microcombs …

Resonant electro-optic frequency comb

A Rueda, F Sedlmeir, M Kumari, G Leuchs… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
High-speed optical telecommunication is enabled by wavelength-division multiplexing,
whereby hundreds of individually stabilized lasers encode information within a single-mode …

Frequency comb distillation for optical superchannel transmission

C Prayoonyong, A Boes, X Xu, M Tan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical frequency combs can potentially provide an efficient light source for multi-terabit-per-
second optical superchannels. However, as the bandwidth of these multi-wavelength light …

Soliton microcomb generation at 2 μm in z-cut lithium niobate microring resonators

Z Gong, X Liu, Y Xu, M Xu, JB Surya, J Lu, A Bruch… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Chip-based soliton frequency combs have been demonstrated on various material
platforms, offering broadband, mutually coherent, and equally spaced frequency lines …

Frequency comb generation via cascaded second-order nonlinearities in microresonators

J Szabados, DN Puzyrev, Y Minet, L Reis, K Buse… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Optical frequency combs are revolutionizing modern time and frequency metrology. In the
past years, their range of applications has increased substantially, driven by their …

Frequency comb generation via synchronous pumped χ(3) resonator on thin-film lithium niobate

R Cheng, M Yu, A Shams-Ansari, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Resonator-based optical frequency comb generation is an enabling technology for a myriad
of applications ranging from communications to precision spectroscopy. These frequency …

Kerr frequency comb interaction with Raman, Brillouin, and second order nonlinear effects

G Lin, Q Song - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Kerr optical frequency comb as a novel microcomb source has found a variety of key
applications from fundamental research to engineering applications. Generation of such …