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Frequency combs are multimode photonic systems that underlie countless precision sensing and metrology applications. Since their invention over two decades ago, numerous efforts have pushed frequency combs to broader bandwidths and more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Sahil Pontula , Debasmita Banerjee , Marin Soljacic , Yannick Salamin

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…

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

Dual-comb interferometry harnesses the interference of two laser frequency combs to provide unprecedented capability in spectroscopy applications. In the past decade, the state-of-the-art systems have reached a point where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Haowei Shi , Zaijun Chen , Scott E. Fraser , Mengjie Yu , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

Fiber-optical networks are a crucial telecommunication infrastructure in society. Wavelength division multiplexing allows for transmitting parallel data streams over the fiber bandwidth, and coherent detection enables the use of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Lars Lundberg , Mikael Mazur , Ali Mirani , Benjamin Foo , Jochen Schröder , Victor Torres-Company , Magnus Karlsson , Peter A. Andrekson

Quantum metrology seeks to leverage the richness of quantum systems for making better measurements than are possible using only classical resources in order to gain a ``quantum advantage''. Quantum metrology schemes must also be resilient…

Slow fluctuations of a qubit frequency are one of the major problems faced by quantum computers. To understand their origin it is necessary to go beyond the analysis of their spectra. We show that characteristic features of the fluctuations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Filip Wudarski , Yaxing Zhang , M. I. Dykman

The optical frequency comb has made a significant impact in precision spectroscopy and on our ability to probe atomic, molecular and, recently, nuclear transitions to further our understanding of their fundamental properties and how their…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-17 John J. McCauley , DylanP. Tooley , R. Jason Jones

Optical frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers have revolutionised the field of metrology and precision spectroscopy by providing precisely calibrated optical frequencies and coherent pulse trains. Amplification of the pulsed output…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Jonas Morgenweg , Itan Barmes , Kjeld S. E. Eikema

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

A novel tool, based on Bayesian filtering framework and expectation maximization algorithm, is numerically and experimentally demonstrated for accurate frequency comb noise characterization. The tool is statistically optimum in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-29 Giovanni Brajato , Lars Lundberg , Victor Torres-Company , Darko Zibar

Frequency-modulated (FM) laser combs, which offer a periodic quasi-continuous-wave output and a flat-topped optical spectrum, are emerging as a promising solution for wavelength-division multiplexing applications, precision metrology, and…

Advanced digital signal processing techniques in combination with ultra-wideband balanced coherent detection have enabled a new generation of ultra-high speed fiber-optic communication systems, by moving most of the processing…

The road towards the realization of quantum cascade laser (QCL) frequency combs (QCL-combs) has undoubtedly attracted ubiquitous attention from the scientific community, as these devices promise to deliver all-in-one (i.e. a single,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-08 Luigi Consolino , Francesco Cappelli , Pablo Cancio , Iacopo Galli , Davide Mazzotti , Saverio Bartalini , Paolo De Natale

The introduction of digital signal processing (DSP) assisted coherent detection has been a cornerstone of modern fiber-optic communication systems. The ability to digitally, i.e. after analogue-to-digital converter, compensate for chromatic…

Optical frequency combs are revolutionising modern time and frequency metrology. In the past years, their range of applications has increased substantially, driven by their miniaturisation through microresonator-based solutions. The combs…

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

Optical frequency combs allow for precise measurement of optical frequencies and are used in a growing number of applications beyond spectroscopy and optical frequency metrology. A class of compact microresonator based frequency comb…

Frequency combs have revolutionized communication, metrology, and spectroscopy. Considerable efforts have been devoted to developing integrated combs, primarily leveraging Pockels or Kerr nonlinearities. Here, we demonstrate an alternative…

The major development recently undergone by quantum cascade lasers has effectively extended frequency comb emission to longer-wavelength spectral regions, i.e. the mid and far infrared. Unlike classical pulsed frequency combs, their…