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Frequency-modulated (FM) combs based on active cavities like quantum cascade lasers have recently emerged as promising light sources in many spectral regions. Unlike passive modelocking, which uses amplitude modulation to generate amplitude…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-15 Mithun Roy , Zhenyang Xiao , Sadhvikas Addamane , David Burghoff

The two-frequency problem of synchronization of the pulse train of a passively mode locked soliton laser to an externally injected pulse train is solved in the weak injection regime. The source and target frequency combs are distinguished…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Omri Gat , David Kielpinski

We report on the study of the phase dynamics of high critical temperature superconductor Josephson junctions. We realized YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-x}$ (YBCO) grain boundary (GB) biepitaxial junctions in the submicron scale, using low loss…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-02 D. Stornaiuolo , G. Rotoli , D. Massarotti , F. Carillo , L. Longobardi , F. Beltram , F. Tafuri

The aim of this work is to theoretically investigate the possibility of Kerr frequency combs in mechanical systems. In particular, whether microelectrome-chanical devices (MEMS) can be used to generate frequency combs in a manner that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-28 Samer Houri , Daiki Hatanaka , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

The generation and control of optical frequency combs in integrated photonic systems enables complex, high-controllable, and large-scale devices. In parallel, harnessing topological physics in multipartite systems has allowed them with…

The classic self-referenced frequency comb acts as an unrivaled ruler for precision optical metrology in both time and frequency. Two decades after its invention, the frequency comb is now used in numerous active sensing applications. Many…

Electromagnetic scattering in accelerating reference frames inspires a variety of phenomena, requiring employment of general relativity for their description. While the quasi-stationary field analysis could be applied to slowly-accelerating…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Vitali Kozlov , Dmitrii Filonov , Yefim Yankelevich , Pavel Ginzburg

Recent microwave reflection measurements of Josephson junction ladders have suggested the presence of nearly coherent collective charge oscillations deep in the insulating phase. Here we develop a qualitative understanding of such coherent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-26 Huan-Kuang Wu , Jay D. Sau

We investigate nonreciprocal scattering within the modes of a microwave frequency comb. Adjusting the pump frequencies, amplitudes, and phases of a Josephson parametric oscillator, we control constructive interference for the $m…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Christoph L. Bock , J. C. Rivera Hernández , Fabio Lingua , David B. Haviland

We study scattering of propagating microwave fields by a DC-voltage biased Josephson junction. At sub-gap voltages, a small Josephson junction works merely as a non-linear boundary that can absorb, amplify, and diversely convert propagating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-07 Juha Leppäkangas , Michael Marthaler

Optical Frequency Comb (OFC) generated by semiconductor lasers are currently widely used in the extremely timely field of high capacity optical interconnects and high precision spectroscopy. Very recently, several experimental evidences of…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Paolo Bardella , Lorenzo Luigi Columbo , Mariangela Gioannini

We experimentally demonstrate four-wave-mixing spectroscopy using frequency combs. The experiment uses a geometry where excitation pulses and four-wave-mixing signals generated by a sample co-propagate. We separate them in the radio…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Bachana Lomsadze , Steven T. Cundiff

Using a discrete mode approach we investigate the intermodal dynamics in a frequency comb with nonlinear coupling due to four-wave mixing. In the presence of sufficient saturable absorption, phase space collapses into a single state, and…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-20 Günter Steinmeyer , Weidong Chen

We study the novel nonlinear phenomena that emerge in a charge qubit due to the interplay between a strong microwave flux drive and a periodic Josephson potential. We first analyze the system in terms of the linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jani Tuorila , Matti Silveri , Mika Sillanpää , Erkki Thuneberg , Yuriy Makhlin , Pertti Hakonen

Nonlinear damping, the change in damping rate with the amplitude of oscillations plays an important role in many electrical, mechanical and even biological oscillators. In novel technologies such as carbon nanotubes, graphene membranes or…

Optical frequency combs provide the clockwork to relate optical frequencies to radio frequencies. Hence, combs allow to measure optical frequencies with respect to a radio frequency where the accuracy is limited only by the reference…

Generating magnon frequency combs (MFCs) with tunable spacing via a single-frequency driving is crucial for practical applications but it typically relies on complex spin textures like skyrmions or vortices. Here, we theoretically and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-18 Hao Zhao , Qianjun Zheng , Peng Yan

The coupling of Josephson oscillations in layered superconductors is studied with help of a tunneling Hamiltonian formalism. The general form of the current density across the barriers between the superconducting layers is derived. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Ch. Preis , Ch. Helm , J. Keller , A. Sergeev , R. Kleiner

Magnonic frequency combs (MFCs) offer a promising route to compact, energy-efficient platforms for on-chip coherent microwave signal generation and processing. Conventional on-chip comb generation typically relies on nonlinear resonators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yu Jiang , Vasyl Tyberkevych , Yizhong Huang , Zixin Yan , Amin Pishehvar , Andrei Slavin , Xufeng Zhang

Frequency-modulated (FM) combs feature flat intensity spectra with a linear frequency chirp, useful for metrology and sensing applications. Generating FM combs in semiconductor lasers generally requires a fast saturable gain, usually…