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Optical frequency combs are crucial for both fundamental science and applications demanding wide frequency spanning and ultra-precision resolutions. Recent advancements of nonlinear Kerr effect based optical frequency combs in microcavities…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-13 Yuanlin Zheng , Tian Qin , Jianfan Yang , Xianfeng Chen , Li Ge , Wenjie Wan

A general mechanism for the generation of frequency combs referenced to atomic resonances is put forward. The mechanism is based on the periodic phase control of a quantum system's dipole response. We develop an analytic description of the…

An optical frequency comb is a spectrum of optical radiation which consists of evenly spaced and phase-coherent narrow spectral lines and is initially invented in laser for frequency metrology purposes. A direct analogue of frequency combs…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Guan-Ting Xu , Mai Zhang , Yu Wang , Zhen Shen , Guang-Can Guo , Chun-Hua Dong

An optical frequency comb consists of a set of discrete and equally spaced frequencies and has found wide applications in the synthesis over broad spectral frequencies of electromagnetic wave and precise optical frequency metrology. Despite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Zhenyu Wang , H. Y. Yuan , Yunshan Cao , Z. -X. Li , Rembert A. Duine , Peng Yan

We investigate the generation of phononic frequency combs arising from nonlinear coupling between Higgs-like and Goldstone-like phonon modes in hexagonal InMnO3. The Higgs-like mode, an infrared-active optical phonon, is resonantly driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Murtaza Rangwala , Adarsh Ganesan

Electro-optic modulation is an attractive approach for generating flat, stable, and low-noise optical frequency combs with relatively high power per comb line. However, a key limitation of electro-optic combs is the restricted number of…

With their incomparable time-frequency accuracy, frequency combs have significantly advanced precision spectroscopy, ultra-sensitive detection, and atomic clocks. Traditional methods to create photonic, phononic, and magnonic frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Congyi Wang , Jinwei Rao , Zhijian Chen , Kaixin Zhao , Liaoxin Sun , Bimu Yao , Tao Yu , Yi-Pu Wang , Wei Lu

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…

Frequency combs based on nonlinear-optical phenomena in integrated photonics are a versatile light source that can explore new applications, including frequency metrology, optical communications, and sensing. We demonstrate robust…

Optical frequency combs and their spectra of evenly spaced discrete laser lines are essential to modern time and frequency metrology. Recent advances in integrated photonic waveguides enable efficient nonlinear broadening of an initially…

Frequency combs can be generated in millimeter-sized optical resonators thanks to their ability to store extremely high light intensities and the nonlinearity of their materials. New frequencies are generated through a cascaded parametric…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-01 Aurélien Coillet , Shuangyou Zhang , Pascal Del'Haye

Magnonic frequency combs, characterized by a series of discrete frequency lines, have emerged as a promising frontier in magnon spintronics, with potential applications in advanced information processing and sensing technologies. Although…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Xueyu Guo , Tianci Gong , Guibin Lan , Mengying Guo , Xiufeng Han , Guoqiang Yu , Peng Yan , Qi Wang

We investigate the generation of optical frequency combs through a cascade of four-wave mixing processes in nonlinear fibres with optimised parameters. The initial optical field consists of two continuous-wave lasers with frequency…

The outstanding phase-noise performance of optical frequency combs has led to a revolution in optical synthesis and metrology, covering a myriad of applications, from molecular spectroscopy to laser ranging and optical communications.…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-13 Victor Torres-Company , Andrew M. Weiner

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…

Recent advances in realizing optical frequency combs using nonlinear parametric processes in integrated photonic resonators have revolutionized on-chip optical clocks, spectroscopy, and multi-channel optical communications. At the same…

Optical frequency combs are lightwaves composed of a large number of equidistant spectral lines. They are important for metrology, spectroscopy, communications and fundamental science. Frequency combs are most often generated by exciting…

Photonic chip-based frequency combs have emerged as a transformative platform, enabling compact, scalable, and high-performance multiwavelength sources with far-reaching impact across science and technology. Most commonly, these sources…

Nonlinearities are inherent to the dynamics of two-dimensional materials. Phenomena like intermodal coupling already arise at amplitudes of only a few nanometers, and a range of unexplored effects still awaits to be harnessed. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Ata Keşkekler , Hadi Arjmandi , Peter G. Steeneken , Farbod Alijani

Frequency combs are multimode photonic systems that underlie countless precision sensing and metrology applications. Since their invention over two decades ago, numerous efforts have pushed frequency combs to broader bandwidths and more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Sahil Pontula , Debasmita Banerjee , Marin Soljacic , Yannick Salamin