Efficient microresonator frequency combs

QF Yang, Y Hu, V Torres-Company, K Vahala - ELight, 2024 - Springer
The rapid development of optical frequency combs from their table-top origins towards chip-
scale platforms has opened up exciting possibilities for comb functionalities outside …

Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light: a tutorial

Q Zhan - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulses with sophisticated structures on demand is one
major goal of the everlasting pursuit of ultrafast information transmission and processing as …

Topological orbital angular momentum extraction and twofold protection of vortex transport

Z Hu, D Bongiovanni, Z Wang, X Wang, D Song, J Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Vortex phenomena are ubiquitous in nature. In optics, despite the availability of numerous
techniques for vortex generation and detection, topological protection of vortex transport with …

Fourier synthesis dispersion engineering of photonic crystal microrings for broadband frequency combs

G Moille, X Lu, J Stone, D Westly… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Dispersion engineering of microring resonators is crucial for optical frequency comb
applications, to achieve targeted bandwidths and powers of individual comb teeth. However …

Achromatic CMOS-Integrated Four-Bit Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Detector at Three Wavelengths

B Li, X Hu, Z Mu, K Cheng, M Gu, X Fang - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
The simultaneous detection of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) and wavelength offers
new opportunities for optical multiplexing. However, because of the dispersion of lens …

Subcycle modulation of light's orbital angular momentum via a Fourier space-time transformation

M de Oliveira, A Ambrosio - Science Advances, 2025 - science.org
Achieving highly tailored control over both the spatial and temporal evolution of light's orbital
angular momentum (OAM) on ultrafast timescales remains a critical challenge in photonics …

MEMS-metasurface–enabled mode-switchable vortex lasers

C Wang, C Meng, X Mei, L Gui, PCV Thrane… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Compared to conventional lasers limited to generating static modes, mode-switchable lasers
equipped with adjustable optics significantly enhance the flexibility and versatility of …

High-dimensional spin-orbital single-photon sources

Y Kan, X Liu, S Kumar, LF Kulikova, VA Davydov… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Hybrid integration of solid-state quantum emitters (QEs) into nanophotonic structures opens
enticing perspectives for exploiting multiple degrees of freedom of single-photon sources for …

Integrated structured light manipulation

J Wang, K Li, Z Quan - Photonics Insights, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light, also known as tailored light, shaped light, sculpted light, or custom light,
refers to a series of special light beams with spatially variant amplitudes and phases …

Spatiotemporal optical wavepackets: from concepts to applications

X Liu, Q Cao, Q Zhan - Photonics Insights, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Spatiotemporal optical wavepackets refer to light fields with sophisticated structures in both
space and time. The ability to produce such spatiotemporally structured optical wavepackets …