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Because they coherently link radio/microwave-rate electrical signals with optical-rate signals derived from lasers and atomic transitions, frequency combs are having a remarkably broad impact on science and technology. Integrating these…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-04 Xu Yi , Qi-Fan Yang , Ki Youl Yang , Myoung-Gyun Suh , Kerry Vahala

Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) have been generated via injection locking of chipscale microresonators to continuous-wave (CW) III-V lasers. This advance has enabled fully integrated hybrid microcomb systems that operate in turnkey mode…

The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators has provided a route to compact frequency combs of high repetition rate, which have already been employed for optical frequency synthesizers, ultrafast ranging, coherent…

Stimulated Raman scattering in a Kerr microresonator is generally considered a competing nonlinear process that hinders the formation of Kerr soliton microcombs. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate that the ubiquitous Raman gain in…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-28 Jingwei Li , Ruixuan Wang , Qing Li

Dual-comb interferometry utilizes two optical frequency combs to map the optical field's spectrum to a radio-frequency signal without using moving parts, allowing improved speed and accuracy. However, the method is compounded by the…

Frequency combs have applications that extend from the ultra-violet into the mid-infrared bands. Microcombs, a miniature and often semiconductor-chip-based device, can potentially access most of these applications, but are currently more…

Microcombs - optical frequency combs generated in microresonators - have advanced tremendously in the last decade, and are advantageous for applications in frequency metrology, navigation, spectroscopy, telecommunications, and microwave…

Optical frequency comb, as a spectrum made of discrete and equally spaced spectral lines, is a light source with essential applications in modern technology. Cavity optomechanical systems were found to be a feasible candidate for realizing…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-13 Xin Gu , Jinlian Zhang , Shulin Ding , Xiaoshun Jiang , Bing He , Qing Lin

CMOS-compatible Kerr microcombs have drawn substantial interest as mass-manufacturable, compact alternatives to bulk frequency combs. This could enable deployment of many comb-reliant applications previously confined to laboratories.…

For more than 20 years, optical microresonators have served as the backbone of integrated nonlinear photonics, exploiting Kerr nonlinearity to generate octave-spanning frequency combs, enable quantum effects, and drive optical parametric…

Laser sources power extreme data transmission as well as computing acceleration, access to ultrahigh-speed signaling, and sensing for chemicals, distance, and pattern recognition. The ever-growing scale of these applications drives…

Bright-soliton frequency comb generation in a thin-film silicon nitride (SiN) microresonator at optical telecommunication wavelengths is numerically demonstrated using our recently developed approach for dispersion-engineering by virtue of…

Optical frequency combs have revolutionized the field of frequency metrology within the last decade and have become enabling tools for atomic clocks, gas sensing and astrophysical spectrometer calibration. The rapidly increasing number of…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-30 P. Del'Haye , T. Herr , E. Gavartin , R. Holzwarth , T. J. Kippenberg

We report a photonic microwave and RF fractional Hilbert transformer based on an integrated Kerr micro-comb source. The micro-comb source has a free spectral range (FSR) of 50GHz, generating a large number of comb lines that serve as a…

Laser-driven high-Q Kerr-nonlinear optical microresonators enable parametric oscillation with low-power continuous-wave lasers and host a variety of coherent dissipative structures, including dissipative Kerr solitons and switching waves.…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-08 Tobias Herr , Alexey Tikan , Tobias J. Kippenberg

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…

Microcombs are revolutionizing optoelectronics by providing parallelized, mutually coherent wavelength channels for time-frequency metrology and information processing. To implement this essential function in integrated photonic systems, it…

Ultraprecision machining offers a powerful route to dispersion control in crystalline microresonators, allowing the design of waveguide geometries for tailoring the spectrum of microresonator frequency combs. By precisely designing the…

Dissipative microcavity solitons offer a route to integrate comb-based metrology systems on photonic chips. However, integrated solitons generally lack agile control of comb parameters, particularly pulse timing control, hindering their…

Multi-color solitons that are parametrically created in dual-pumped microresonators generate interleaved frequency combs that can be used to obtain combs at new frequencies and when synchronized can be used for low-noise microwave…