In this review we present some of the recent advances in the field of silicon nitride photonic
integrated circuits. The review focuses on the material deposition techniques currently …

Frequency conversion in nonlinear materials is an extremely useful solution to the
generation of new optical frequencies. Often, it is the only viable solution to realize light …

On-chip integration of optical comb sources is crucial in enabling their widespread use.
Integrated photonic devices that can be mass-manufactured in semiconductor processing …

To meet the high demand of data transmission capacity, optical communications systems
have been developed. In order to increase the channel numbers for larger communication …

In this paper, we review the progress of wide tunable Bragg grating external cavity
semiconductor lasers (BG-ECSLs). We concentrate on BG-ECSLs based on the wide …

Integrated mode-locked lasers are useful tools in microwave photonic applications as a local
oscillator. In particular, hybrid integrated lasers could easily be integrated with passive …

External cavity mode-locked lasers could be used as comb sources for high volume
application such as LIDAR and dual comb spectroscopy. Currently demonstrated chip scale …

We propose and demonstrate a novel scheme to flexibly generate optical pulse trains with
programmable repetition rates using newly designed binary modulation coefficients. The …

Optical frequency combs based on broadband-gain bulk lasers, due to the low intrinsic
linewidth and sub-GHz repetition rates, have gained tremendous interest for applications …

Optical frequency combs are at the center of numerous applications such as LIDAR and
RADAR systems, metrology, telecommunication, and spectroscopy. Among the different …