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 …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, ML Gorodetsky… - Nonlinear optical cavity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …

Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

Broadband electro-optic frequency comb generation in a lithium niobate microring resonator

M Zhang, B Buscaino, C Wang, A Shams-Ansari… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs consist of equally spaced discrete optical frequency components
and are essential tools for optical communication, precision metrology, timing and …

Temporal solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, V Brasch, JD Jost, CY Wang, NM Kondratiev… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Temporal dissipative solitons in a continuous-wave laser-driven nonlinear optical
microresonator were observed. The solitons were generated spontaneously when the laser …

Microresonator-based optical frequency combs

TJ Kippenberg, R Holzwarth, SA Diddams - science, 2011 - science.org
The series of precisely spaced, sharp spectral lines that form an optical frequency comb is
enabling unprecedented measurement capabilities and new applications in a wide range of …

[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 …

Mid-infrared frequency combs

A Schliesser, N Picqué, TW Hänsch - Nature photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Laser frequency combs are coherent light sources that emit a broad spectrum of discrete,
evenly spaced narrow lines whose absolute frequency can be measured to within the …

Whispering-gallery-mode sensors for biological and physical sensing

D Yu, M Humar, K Meserve, RC Bailey… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The term whispering gallery mode (WGM) was first introduced to describe the curvilinear
propagation of sound waves under a cathedral dome. The physical concept has now been …

Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator

P Del'Haye, A Schliesser, O Arcizet, T Wilken… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs,, provide equidistant frequency markers in the infrared, visible and
ultraviolet,, and can be used to link an unknown optical frequency to a radio or microwave …