Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

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 …

Aluminum nitride nanophotonics for beyond-octave soliton microcomb generation and self-referencing

X Liu, Z Gong, AW Bruch, JB Surya, J Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Frequency microcombs, alternative to mode-locked laser and fiber combs, enable miniature
rulers of light for applications including precision metrology, molecular fingerprinting and …

Dispersion engineering and measurement of whispering gallery mode microresonator for Kerr frequency comb generation

S Fujii, T Tanabe - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Designing and engineering microresonator dispersion are essential for generating
microresonator frequency comb. Microresonator frequency combs (microcombs, Kerr …

Near-octave lithium niobate soliton microcomb

Z Gong, X Liu, Y Xu, HX Tang - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Thin film lithium niobate (LN) is bringing renewed potential to the realm of integrated
photonics. Its strong quadratic and cubic nonlinearities as well as wide transparency window …

Kerr-induced synchronization of a cavity soliton to an optical reference

G Moille, J Stone, M Chojnacky, R Shrestha, UA Javid… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The phase-coherent frequency division of a stabilized optical reference laser to the
microwave domain is made possible by optical-frequency combs (OFCs),. OFC-based …

Spontaneous pulse formation in edgeless photonic crystal resonators

SP Yu, DC Cole, H Jung, GT Moille, K Srinivasan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nonlinearity in complex systems leads to pattern formation through fundamental interactions
between components. With integrated photonics, precision control of nonlinearity explores …

Emerging material systems for integrated optical Kerr frequency combs

A Kovach, D Chen, J He, H Choi, AH Dogan… - Advances in Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The experimental realization of a Kerr frequency comb represented the convergence of
research in materials, physics, and engineering. This symbiotic relationship continues to …

Ultra-broadband Kerr microcomb through soliton spectral translation

G Moille, EF Perez, JR Stone, A Rao, X Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Broadband and low-noise microresonator frequency combs (microcombs) are critical for
deployable optical frequency measurements. Here we expand the bandwidth of a …

Parametrically driven pure-Kerr temporal solitons in a chip-integrated microcavity

G Moille, M Leonhardt, D Paligora, N Englebert… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The discovery that externally driven nonlinear optical resonators can sustain ultrashort
pulses (solitons) corresponding to coherent optical frequency combs has enabled landmark …