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Optical frequency combs are key to optical precision measurements. While most frequency combs operate in the near-infrared regime, many applications require combs at mid-infrared, visible or even ultra-violet wavelengths. Frequency combs…

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…

Significant efforts have been made to enhance the performance of displacement sensors limited by quantum noise, such as gravitational wave detectors. Techniques like frequency-dependent squeezing have overcome the standard quantum limit in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Haodong Xu , Zijun Shu , Nianqin Li , Yang Shen , Bo Ji , Yongjun Yang , Tengfei Wu , Mingliang Long , Guangqiang He

Laser frequency combs are coherent light sources that emit a broad spectrum consisting of discrete, evenly spaced narrow lines, each having an absolute frequency measurable within the accuracy of an atomic clock. Their development, a decade…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-13 Albert Schliesser , Nathalie Picqué , Theodor W. Hänsch

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…

Kerr frequency combs with depressed harmonic at the optical pump frequency are theoretically explained and experimentally demonstrated. This result is achieved in a MgF$_2$ photonic belt resonator having reduced density of modes in its…

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)…

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…

Self-referencing turns pulsed laser systems into self-referenced frequency combs. Such frequency combs allow counting of optical frequencies and have a wide range of applications. The required optical bandwidth to implement self-referencing…

Frequency combs are a spectrum of equally spaced frequency components with very high time-frequency accuracy, which have been widely used in the optical and microwave frequency ranges. We propose the realization of a frequency comb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiyin Ye , Tao Yu

Optical frequency combs generated in normally dispersive Kerr microresonators have been observed to correspond to dark temporal structures, and theoretically explained as interlocked switching waves (also known as domain walls or fronts).…

Optical frequency combs have attracted attention as optical frequency rulers due to their tooth-like discrete spectra together with their inherent mode-locking nature and phase-locking control to a frequency standard. Based on this concept,…

The ability to generate efficient and coherent frequency combs using photonic integrated circuits offers tremendous potential for a range of applications. In particular, "microcombs" based on chip-integrated resonators are poised to…

Optical frequency combs were developed nearly two decades ago to support the world's most precise atomic clocks. Acting as precision optical synthesizers, frequency combs enable the precise transfer of phase and frequency information from a…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-29 Tara Fortier , Esther Baumann

Optical frequency combs have revolutionized precision measurement, time-keeping, and molecular spectroscopy. A substantial effort has developed around "microcombs": integrating comb-generating technologies into compact, reliable photonic…

Recently developed techniques for generating precisely equidistant optical frequencies over broad wavelength ranges are revolutionizing precision physical measurement [1-3]. These frequency "combs" are produced primarily using relatively…

Frequency combs represent exceptionally precise measurement tools due to the coherence of their spectral lines. While optical frequency comb sources constitute a well-established technology, superconducting circuits provide a relatively…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-12 Angelo Greco , Xavier Ballu , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Crippa

Integrated Kerr micro-combs, a powerful source of many wavelengths for photonic RF and microwave signal processing, are particularly useful for transversal filter systems. They have many advantages including a compact footprint, high…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Mengxi Tan , Xingyuan Xu , Jiayang Wu , David J. Moss

Optical frequency combs generated by multiple four-wave mixing of two stabilized single-frequency lasers in optical fibers are proposed for use as high precision frequency markers, calibration of astrophysical spectrometers and metrology.…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Flavio C. Cruz

This paper presents a novel approach to dual-frequency comb generation utilizing a single fiber Fabry-Perot resonator, advancing the implementation of these sources in fiber-based systems. Dual-comb applications such as spectroscopy,…