Self-emergence of robust solitons in a microcavity

M Rowley, PH Hanzard, A Cutrona, H Bao, ST Chu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In many disciplines, states that emerge in open systems far from equilibrium are determined
by a few global parameters,. These states can often mimic thermodynamic equilibrium, a …

3D integration enables ultralow-noise isolator-free lasers in silicon photonics

C **ang, W **, O Terra, B Dong, H Wang, L Wu, J Guo… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic integrated circuits are widely used in applications such as telecommunications and
data-centre interconnects,,,–. However, in optical systems such as microwave synthesizers …

Multi-dimensional data transmission using inverse-designed silicon photonics and microcombs

KY Yang, C Shirpurkar, AD White, J Zang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The use of optical interconnects has burgeoned as a promising technology that can address
the limits of data transfer for future high-performance silicon chips. Recent pushes to …

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 …

Advances in resonator-based Kerr frequency combs with high conversion efficiencies

X Zhang, C Wang, Z Cheng, C Hu, X Ji, Y Su - npj Nanophotonics, 2024 - nature.com
Recent developments in resonator-based Kerr frequency combs promise excellent
applications in a wide range of fields such as biosensing, spectroscopy, optical …

Strong interactions between solitons and background light in Brillouin-Kerr microcombs

M Zhang, S Ding, X Li, K Pu, S Lei, M **ao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr-soliton combs are laser pulses regularly sustained by a localized solitary
wave on top of a continuous-wave background inside a nonlinear resonator. Usually, the …

Surpassing the nonlinear conversion efficiency of soliton microcombs

ÓB Helgason, M Girardi, Z Ye, F Lei, J Schröder… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser frequency combs are enabling some of the most exciting scientific endeavours in the
twenty-first century, ranging from the development of optical clocks to the calibration of the …

Tailoring microcombs with inverse-designed, meta-dispersion microresonators

E Lucas, SP Yu, TC Briles, DR Carlson, SB Papp - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear wave mixing in optical microresonators offers new perspectives to generate
compact optical-frequency microcombs, which enable an ever-growing number of …

Nanoscale multi-beam lithography of photonic crystals with ultrafast laser

J Li, J Yan, L Jiang, J Yu, H Guo, L Qu - Light: Science & Applications, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic crystals are utilized in many noteworthy applications like optical communications,
light flow control, and quantum optics. Photonic crystal with nanoscale structure is important …

Optical-parametric oscillation in photonic-crystal ring resonators

JA Black, G Brodnik, H Liu, SP Yu, DR Carlson, J Zang… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
By-design<? TeX 2pc 0pt?> access to laser wavelength, especially with integrated
photonics, is critical to advance quantum sensors, such as optical clocks and quantum …