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 …

Photonic RF and microwave filters based on 49 GHz and 200 GHz Kerr microcombs

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, R Morandotti, A Mitchell… - Optics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Integrated Kerr microcombs are emerging as a powerful tool as sources of multiple
wavelength channels for photonic RF and microwave signal processing mainly in the …

11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks

X Xu, M Tan, B Corcoran, J Wu, A Boes, TG Nguyen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Convolutional neural networks, inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful
category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features of raw data to …

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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] RF and microwave photonic high bandwidth signal processing based on Kerr micro-comb sources

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, R Morandotti, A Mitchell… - … in Physics X, 2020 - researchgate.net
Integrated Kerr micro-combs are a powerful source of multiple wavelength channels for
photonic radio frequency (RF) and microwave signal processing, particularly for transversal …

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 …

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 …

Microcomb-based photonic RF signal processing

X Xu, M Tan, J Wu, R Morandotti… - IEEE Photonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microcombs are powerful tools as sources of multiple wavelength channels for photonic
radio frequency (RF) signal processing. They offer a compact device footprint, large …

Performance analysis of microwave photonic spectral filters based on optical microcombs

Y Li, Y Sun, J Wu, G Ren, X Xu… - Advanced Physics …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave transversal filters, which are implemented based on the transversal filter structure
in digital signal processing, offer a high reconfigurability for achieving a variety of signal …