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Frequency combs have revolutionized the field of optical spectroscopy, enabling researchers to probe molecular systems with a multitude of accurate and precise optical frequencies. While there have been tremendous strides in direct…
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Cavity dressing of molecular vibrational dynamics expands the role of characteristic vibrations as spectroscopic markers of underlying ultrafast dynamics. Interacting vibrational modes exhibit a pronounced excited state delocalization due…
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A hybrid optoelectronic vibration sensing system is presented, combining a conventional charge-mode piezoelectric accelerometer with an optical fiber interface via a liquid crystal-based electrical-to-optical transducer. This configuration…
Optomechanical devices operated at their quantum limit open novel perspectives for the ultrasensitive determination of mass and displacement, and also in the broader field of quantum technologies. The access to higher frequencies implies…
Spectroscopic ellipsometry is a means to investigate optical and dielectric material responses. Conventional spectroscopic ellipsometry has trade-offs between spectral accuracy, resolution, and measurement time. Polarization modulation has…
Cavity optomechanical system can exhibit higher-order sideband comb effect when it is driven by a control field $\omega_{c}$ and a probe field $\omega_{p}$, and works in the non-perturbative regime, as was shown in a previous work [Xiong et…
We demonstrate gallium phosphide (GaP) microdisk optical cavities with intrinsic quality factors $ > 2.8\times10^{5}$ and mode volumes $< 10 (\lambda/n)^3$, and study their nonlinear and optomechanical properties. For optical intensities up…
Dual-comb distance metrology combines sub-um precision with absolute distance measurement over meter-scale non-ambiguity ranges. The most common interferometric implementation requires sophisticated approaches to achieve continuous…
Single-cavity dual-comb lasers are a new class of ultrafast lasers which have a wide possible application space including pump-probe sampling, optical ranging, and gas absorption spectroscopy. However, to this date laser cavity multiplexing…
We present the design of an optomechanical crystal nanobeam cavity that combines finite-element simulation with numerical optimization, and considers the optomechanical coupling arising from both moving dielectric boundaries and the…
Length and g-factor are fundamental parameters that characterize optical cavities. We developed a technique to measure these parameters in-situ by determining the frequency spacing between the resonances of fundamental and spatial modes of…
Several optomechanics experiments are now entering the highly sought nonlinear regime where optomechanical interactions are large even for low light levels. Within this regime, new quantum phenomena and improved performance may be achieved,…
Measurements of optical range and time-of-flight are crucial for a variety of high-precision technologies. Competitive optical measurement techniques have been developed that balance precision with accuracy and system complexity. Here, we…
Ultra-rapid, high-precision distance metrology is critical for both advanced scientific research and practical applications. However, current light detection and ranging technologies struggle to simultaneously achieve high measurement…
The energy transfer between different subsystems or different vibration modes is always one of the most interested problems in the study of the resonance phenomena in coupled nonlinear dynamical systems. With an optomechanical system…
Optical frequency combs paved the way for fast and compact multi-component optical chemical analysis due to their broadband spectra. Dual-comb spectrometers embody this technology, but their design requires a pair of matched combs, adding…