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Continuously pumped passive nonlinear cavities can be harnessed for the creation of novel optical frequency combs. While most research has focused on third-order "Kerr" nonlinear interactions, recent studies have shown that frequency comb…

We present detailed numerical simulations of the laser dynamics that describe optical frequency comb formation by injection-locking a gain-switched laser. The typical rate equations for semiconductor lasers including stochastic carrier…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sean P. O Duill , Prince M. Anandarajah , Rui Zhou , Liam P. Barry

We propose a linear optical quantum computation scheme using time-frequency degree of freedom. In this scheme, a qubit is encoded in single-photon frequency combs, and manipulation of the qubits is performed using time-resolving detectors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Tomohiro Yamazaki , Tomoaki Arizono , Toshiki Kobayashi , Rikizo Ikuta , Takashi Yamamoto

The ability to manipulate the frequency of light is of great importance in both fundamental quantum sciences and practical applications. Traditional method for frequency conversion relies on nonlinear optical processes, which are faced with…

We report on experimental and theoretical demonstration of an optical comb spectrum based on a combination of cascaded stimulated Raman scattering and four-wave mixing mediated by Raman-induced nonresonant Kerr-type nonlinearity. This…

Dual-comb spectroscopy is a powerful technique to measure optical spectra in a wide spectral range with high-frequency resolution. The development of compact systems operating in the long-wave infrared wavelength range is of high interest…

Laser spectroscopy and interferometry have provided an unparalleled view into the fundamental nature of matter and the universe through ultra-precise measurements of atomic transition frequencies and gravitational waves. Optical frequency…

The mechanical analog of optical frequency combs, phononic frequency combs, has recently been demonstrated in mechanical resonators and has been attributed to coupling between multiple phonon modes. This paper investigates the influence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhen Qi , Curtis R. Menyuk , Jason J. Gorman , Adarsh Ganesan

Resonator-based optical frequency comb generation is an enabling technology for a myriad of applications ranging from communications to precision spectroscopy. These frequency combs can be generated in nonlinear resonators driven using…

We demonstrate a dual optical frequency comb concept that down-converts arbitrary narrowband D-band (110-170 GHz) signals to baseband without any filter or optical/RF frequency tuning, using low frequency RF components.

Optics · Physics 2025-12-24 Callum Deakin , Zichuan Zhou , Ronit Sohanpal , Zhixin Liu

Multiheterodyne techniques using frequency combs -- light sources whose lines are perfectly evenly-spaced -- have revolutionized optical science. By beating an unknown signal with the many lines of a comb, its spectrum is recovered.…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-23 David Burghoff

Frequency combs from continuous-wave-driven Kerr-nonlinear microresonators have evolved into a key photonic technology with applications from optical communication to precision spectroscopy. Essential to many of these applications is the…

Non-perturbative and phase-sensitive light-matter interactions have led to the generation of attosecond pulses of light and the control electrical currents on the same timescale. Traditionally, probing these effects via high harmonic…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-17 Daniel M. B. Lesko , Kristina F. Chang , Scott A. Diddams

Cavity-based noise detection schemes are combined with ultrafast pulse shaping as a means to diagnose the spectral correlations of both the amplitude and phase noise of an ultrafast frequency comb. The comb is divided into ten spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Roman Schmeissner , Jonathan Roslund , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps

Developments in integrated photonics have led to stable, compact, and broadband comb generators that support a wide range of applications. Current on-chip comb generators, however, are still limited by low optical pump-to-comb conversion…

Optical frequency comb synthesizers (FCs) [1] are laser sources covering a broad spectral range with a number of discrete, equally spaced and highly coherent frequency components, fully controlled through only two parameters: the frequency…

Ultrafast optical frequency combs allow for both high spectral and temporal resolution in molecular spectroscopy and have become a powerful tool in many areas of chemistry and physics. Ultrafast lasers and frequency combs generated from…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-08 Jie Zhan , Nicholas D. Cooper , Melanie A. R. Reber

Optical frequency combs have the potential to become key building blocks of optical communication subsystems. The strictly equidistant, narrow-band spectral lines of a frequency comb can serve both as carriers for massively parallel data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Pablo Marin-Palomo , Juned N. Kemal , Wolfgang Freude , Sebastian Randel , Christian Koos

Tunable lasers, with the ability to continuously adjust their emission wavelengths, have found widespread applications across various fields such as biomedical imaging, coherent ranging, optical communications and spectroscopy. In these…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-22 Baoqi Shi , Yi-Han Luo , Wei Sun , Yue Hu , Jinbao Long , Xue Bai , Anting Wang , Junqiu Liu

For more than 20 years, optical microresonators have served as the backbone of integrated nonlinear photonics, exploiting Kerr nonlinearity to generate octave-spanning frequency combs, enable quantum effects, and drive optical parametric…