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Dual comb spectroscopy (DCS) is a broadband technique offering high resolution and fast data acquisition. We describe a hybrid dual comb spectrometer comprising a broadband commercial fiber laser system offering a wide range of sample…
Ultrabroadband electro-optic sampling with few-cycle optical pulses is known to be an extremely sensitive technique to detect electric field amplitudes. By combining this method with dual-comb spectroscopy and with a new class of ultrafast…
Coherent lidars promise a number of advantages over traditional time-of-flight lidars for autonomous vehicles. These include the direct measurement of target approach velocities via the Doppler effect, and near-immunity to interference from…
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We present gapless, high-resolution absorption and dispersion spectra obtained with quantum cascade laser frequency combs covering 55 cm$^{-1}$. Using phase-sensitive dual comb design, the comb lines are gradually swept over 10 GHz,…
The transition to chaos is ubiquitous in nonlinear systems ranging from fluid dynamics and superconducting circuits to biological organisms. Optical systems driven out of equilibrium such as lasers and supercontinuum generation exhibit…
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Low-noise lasers are of central importance in a wide variety of applications, including high spectral-efficiency coherent communication protocols, distributed fibre sensing, and long distance coherent LiDAR. In addition to low phase noise,…
Absolute distance measurement with low return power, fast measurement speed, high precision, and immunity to intensity fluctuations is highly demanded in nanotechnology. However, achieving all these objectives simultaneously remains a…
Coherent optics has profoundly impacted diverse applications ranging from communications, LiDAR to quantum computations. However, building coherent systems in integrated photonics previously came at great expense in hardware integration and…
Holography has always held special appeal, for it is able to record and display spatial information in three dimensions. Here, we show how to augment the capabilities of digital holography by using a large number of narrow laser lines at…
Chemical imaging enabled by Raman processes is crucial to investigating biological and chemical samples in a label-free manner. Stimulated Raman spectroscopy (SRS) overcomes the key limitation associated with low signal levels in…
Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a key technology for depth imaging through complex environments. Despite recent advances, an open challenge is the ability to isolate the LiDAR signal from other spurious sources…
We present a chip-scale scanning dual-comb spectroscopy (SDCS) approach for broadband ultrahigh-resolution spectral acquisition. SDCS uses Si3N4 microring resonators that generate two single soliton micro-combs spanning 37 THz (300 nm) on…
Single-photon laser ranging has widespread applications in remote sensing and target recognition. However, highly-sensitive light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has long been restricted in visible or near-infrared bands. An appealing quest…
Multi-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (MDCS)1,2 is a powerful method for optical spectroscopy that has become an important tool for studying ultrafast dynamics in a wide range of systems. It is an optical analog of multidimensional…
Laser dynamics underpin a broad range of modern photonic technologies and continue to reveal rich nonlinear behaviors. However, existing spectroscopic tools, most notably time-stretched dispersive Fourier transform spectroscopy (TS-DFT),…
Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy with time-delayed ultrashort pulses and a single-pixel photodetector has shown great potential for spectroscopic imaging and transient studies in chemistry and biological research.…
Nonlinear optical microscopy allows rapid high-resolution microscopy with image contrast generated from intrinsic properties of the sample. Established modalities such as multiphoton excited fluorescence and second/third-harmonic generation…
Artificial intelligence empowered autonomous vehicles and robotics have to sense the fast-changing three-dimensional environment with high precision and speed. However, it is challenging for the state-of-the-art ambiguity-free light…