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We demonstrate a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) concept using demultiplexer-free frequency combs at both transmitter and receiver in a 4-wavelength 200-GHz-grid WDM system with flexible symbol rates, aiming to avoid the power-hungry…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Di Che , Zhongdi Peng , Mikael Mazur , Nicolas Fontaine

The major development recently undergone by quantum cascade lasers has effectively extended frequency comb emission to longer-wavelength spectral regions, i.e. the mid and far infrared. Unlike classical pulsed frequency combs, their…

Integrated Kerr microcombs are emerging as a powerful tool as sources of multiple wavelength channels for photonic RF and microwave signal processing mainly in the context of transversal filters. They offer a compact device footprint, very…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Mengxi Tan , Xingyuan Xu , Jiayang Wu , Roberto Morandotti , Arnan Mitchell , David J. Moss

While being invented for precision measurement of single atomic transitions, frequency combs have also become a versatile tool for broadband spectroscopy in the last years. In this paper we present a novel and simple approach for broadband…

Optical frequency combs have had a remarkable impact on precision spectroscopy. Enabling this technology in the x-ray domain is expected to result in wide-ranging applications, such as stringent tests of astrophysical models and quantum…

We demonstrate fast characterization (~1.4 microseconds) of both the dispersion and dispersion slope of long optical fiber links (~25 km) using dual quadrature spectral interferometry with an optical frequency comb. Compared to previous…

Optical frequency combs are utilized in a wide range of optical applications, including atomic clocks, interferometers, and various sensing technologies. They are often generated via four-wave mixing in chip-integrated microring resonators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Patrick Tritschler , Torsten Ohms , André Zimmermann , Peter Degenfeld-Schonburg

The performance of fiber laser systems has drastically increased over recent decades, which has opened up new industrial and scientific applications for this technology. However, currently a number of physical effects prevents further power…

Dispersion engineering is among the most important steps towards a promising optical frequency comb. We propose a new and general approach to trim frequency combs using a self-adaptive boundary of the optical mode at different wavelengths…

Optical communication systems represent the backbone of modern communication networks. Since their deployment, different fiber technologies have been used to deal with optical fiber impairments such as dispersion-shifted fibers and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Abdelkerim Amari , Octavia A. Dobre , Ramachandran Venkatesan , O. S. Sunish Kumar , Philippe Ciblat , Yves Jaouën

Microresonator optical frequency combs based on cascaded four-wave mixing are potentially attractive as a multi-wavelength source for on-chip optical communications. In this paper we compare time domain coherence, radio-frequency (RF)…

We present an experiment demonstrating high-resolution coherent control of a four-level atomic system in a closed (diamond) type configuration. A femtosecond frequency comb is used to establish phase coherence between a pair of two-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthew C. Stowe , Avi Pe'er , Jun Ye

Optical frequency combs combine ultrashort pulse duration and phase stability, making them powerful resources for high-precision ranging even when affected by atmospheric dispersion. It has been established that by classical modal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Mylenne Manrique , Ilaria Gianani , Marco Barbieri , Valentina Parigi , Nicolas Treps

The femtosecond laser frequency comb has enabled the 21st century revolution in optical synthesis and metrology. A particularly compelling technique that relies on the broadband coherence of two laser frequency combs is dual-comb…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Vicente Duran , Santiago Tainta , Victor Torres-Company

We show experimentally and theoretically that the spectral components of a multi-octave frequency comb spontaneously created by stimulated Raman scattering in a hydrogen-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber exhibit strong self…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. Y. Wang , Chunbai Wu , F. Couny , M. G. Raymer , F. Benabid

We demonstrate simple optical frequency combs based on semiconductor quantum well laser diodes. The frequency comb spectrum can be tailored by choice of material properties and quantum-well widths, providing spectral flexibility. Finally,…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-21 Mark Dong , Matthew W. Day , Herbert G. Winful , Steven T. Cundiff

The optical fibre is an essential tool for our communication infrastructure since it is the main transmission channel for optical communications. The latest major advance in optical fibre technology is spatial division multiplexing (SDM),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Guilherme B. Xavier , Gustavo Lima

We experimentally realized a new method for transmitting quantum information reliably through paired optical polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers. The physical setup extends the use of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, where noises are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Jin-Shi Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Xiao-Ye Xu , Jian-Shun Tang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We propose and characterize experimentally a new source of optical frequency combs for performing multi-heterodyne spectrometry. This comb modality is based on a frequency shifting loop seeded with a CW monochromatic laser. The comb lines…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 V. Duran , C. Schnebelin , H. Guillet De Chatellus

In the recent years important experimental advances in resonant electro-optic modulators as high efficient sources for coherent frequency combs and as devices for quantum information transfer have been realized, where strong optical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Alfredo Rueda