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This work reports a fully guided setup for single-mode squeezing generation on integrated titanium-indiffused periodically poled nonlinear resonators. A continuous wave laser beam is delivered and the squeezed field is collected by…

Optical injection locking is implemented to faithfully transfer the phase noise of a dissipative Kerr microresonator soliton comb in addition to the amplification of the Kerr comb. Unlike Er-doped fiber and semiconductor optical amplifiers,…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-23 Naoya Kuse , Kaoru Minoshima

Quantum walks are central to a wide range of applications such as quantum search, quantum information processing, and entanglement transport. Gaining control over the duration and the direction of quantum walks (QWs) is crucial to…

The quantum dynamics of quasiperiodic systems display a rich variety of physical behaviors due to the combination of rotational symmetry that is mathematically forbidden in periodic systems, and long-range order despite the lack of…

Optically generated terahertz (THz) oscillators have garnered considerable attention in recent years due to their potential for wide tunability and low phase noise. Here, for the first time, a dissipative Kerr microresonator soliton comb…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-10 Omnia Nawwar , Kaoru Minoshima , Naoya Kuse

Precise spectral control in the hard X-ray regime remains a long-standing challenge that limits applications in atomic-scale science and ultrafast spectroscopy. We present an actively mode-locked cavity-based X-ray free-electron laser that…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Nanshun Huang , Hanxiang Yang , Haixiao Deng

There is an increasing demand for precise molecular spectroscopy, in particular in the mid-infrared fingerprint window that hosts a considerable number of vibrational signatures, whether it be for modeling our atmosphere, interpreting…

Precise control of the electron phase accumulated during its sub-cycle motion within intense laser fields is essential in strong-field physics, yet remains mostly indirect and complicated so far. In this Letter, we develop a novel approach…

Laser frequency combs are fast becoming critical to reaching the highest radial velocity precisions. One shortcoming is the highly variable brightness of the comb lines across the spectrum (up to 4-5 orders of magnitude). This can result in…

Using a microscopic theory based on the Maxwell-semiconductor Bloch equations, we investigate the possibility of an optically-assisted electrically-driven THz quantum cascade laser. Whereas in optical conversion schemes the power conversion…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ines Waldmueller , Michael C. Wanke , Weng W. Chow

We demonstrate a scheme, based on a cascade of lithium niobate intensity and phase modulators driven by specially tailored radio frequency waveforms to generate an optical frequency comb with very high spectral flatness. In this work we…

We report on the proof-of-principle experiment of generating carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-controllable and frequency-tunable narrowband terahertz (THz) radiation from air-plasma filament prescribed by the beat of temporally stretched…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-24 Xiaoyue Zhou , Yuchen Lin , Yi Chan , Fu Deng , Jingdi Zhang

We report new limits on the phase coherence of the ultrafast mode-locking process in an octave-spanning Ti:sapphire comb. We find that the mode-locking mechanism correlates optical phase across a full optical octave with less than 2.5 micro…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael J. Martin , Seth M. Foreman , T. R. Schibli , Jun Ye

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

Quantum cascade laser (QCL)-pumped molecular lasers (QPMLs) have recently been introduced as a new source of powerful (>1 mW), tunable (>1 THz), narrow-band (<10 kHz), continuous-wave terahertz radiation. The performance of these lasers…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-13 Fan Wang , Steven G. Johnson , Henry O. Everitt

Controllable interaction between superconducting qubits is desirable for large-scale quantum computation and simulation. Here, based on a theoretical proposal by Yan et al. [Phys. Rev. Appl. 10, 054061 (2018)] we experimentally demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 X. Li , T. Cai , H. Yan , Z. Wang , X. Pan , Y. Ma , W. Cai , J. Han , Z. Hua , X. Han , Y. Wu , H. Zhang , H. Wang , Yipu Song , Luming Duan , Luyan Sun

An optical frequency comb comprises a cluster of equally spaced, phase-locked spectral lines. Replacing these classical components with correlated quantum light gives rise to cluster quantum frequency combs, providing abundant quantum…

Optical frequency combs, coherent light sources that connect optical frequencies with microwave oscillations, have become the enabling tool for precision spectroscopy, optical clockwork and attosecond physics over the past decades. Current…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-21 S. -W. Huang , J. Yang , M. Yu , B. H. McGuyer , D. -L. Kwong , T. Zelevinsky , C. W. Wong

Frequency combs have revolutionized time and frequency metrology and in recent years, new frequency comb lasers that are highly compact or even on-chip have been demonstrated in the mid-infrared and THz regions of the electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-17 Giacomo Scalari , Jérôme Faist , Nathalie Picqué

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