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 …

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 …

Ultrafast optical ranging using microresonator soliton frequency combs

P Trocha, M Karpov, D Ganin, MHP Pfeiffer, A Kordts… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Light detection and ranging is widely used in science and industry. Over the past decade,
optical frequency combs were shown to offer advantages in optical ranging, enabling fast …

RF photonics: an optical microcombs' perspective

J Wu, X Xu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, optical frequency combs generated by high-Q microresonators, or
optical microcombs, which feature compact device footprints, low power consumption, and …

Ultra-efficient frequency comb generation in AlGaAs-on-insulator microresonators

L Chang, W **e, H Shu, QF Yang, B Shen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent advances in nonlinear optics have revolutionized integrated photonics, providing on-
chip solutions to a wide range of new applications. Currently, state of the art integrated …

Microresonator soliton dual-comb spectroscopy

MG Suh, QF Yang, KY Yang, X Yi, KJ Vahala - Science, 2016 - science.org
Measurement of optical and vibrational spectra with high resolution provides a way to
identify chemical species in cluttered environments and is of general importance in many …

Soliton microcomb range measurement

MG Suh, KJ Vahala - Science, 2018 - science.org
Laser-based range measurement systems are important in many application areas,
including autonomous vehicles, robotics, manufacturing, formation flying of satellites, and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in heterogeneous III-V-on-silicon photonic integration

D Liang, JE Bowers - Light: Advanced Manufacturing, 2021 - light-am.com
Silicon (Si) photonics is a disruptive technology on the fast track to revolutionise integrated
photonics. An indispensable branch thereof, heterogeneous Si integration, has also evolved …