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 optical frequency comb technologies

L Chang, S Liu, JE Bowers - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs offer an unrivalled degree of frequency measurement precision
that underpins the advance of modern technology in both fundamental science and …

Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth chip-scale lasers from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths

M Corato-Zanarella, A Gil-Molina, X Ji, MC Shin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth lasers at visible wavelengths are necessary for
applications such as quantum optics, optical clocks and atomic and molecular physics. At …

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

C **ang, J Liu, J Guo, L Chang, RN Wang, W Weng… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-
based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser …

Hertz-linewidth semiconductor lasers using CMOS-ready ultra-high-Q microresonators

W **, QF Yang, L Chang, B Shen, H Wang, MA Leal… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Driven by narrow-linewidth bench-top lasers, coherent optical systems spanning optical
communications, metrology and sensing provide unrivalled performance. To transfer these …

Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core

J Feldmann, N Youngblood, M Karpov, H Gehring, X Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
With the proliferation of ultrahigh-speed mobile networks and internet-connected devices,
along with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the world is generating exponentially …

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 …

High-yield, wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss, dispersion-engineered silicon nitride photonic circuits

J Liu, G Huang, RN Wang, J He, AS Raja, T Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Low-loss photonic integrated circuits and microresonators have enabled a wide range of
applications, such as narrow-linewidth lasers and chip-scale frequency combs. To translate …

Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source

AA Jørgensen, D Kong, MR Henriksen, F Klejs, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical fibre communication is the backbone of the internet. As essential core technologies
are approaching their limits of size, speed and energy-efficiency, there is a need for new …

Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs

B Shen, L Chang, J Liu, H Wang, QF Yang, C **ang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs have a wide range of applications in science and technology. An
important development for miniature and integrated comb systems is the formation of …