Monolithic lithium niobate photonic circuits for Kerr frequency comb generation and modulation [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Kerr microcombs promise the miniaturization of frequency comb sources, but many applications require additional second-order nonlinearities. Here, Wang et al.
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Hybrid Kerr-electro-optic frequency combs on thin-film lithium niobate [PDF]
Light: Science & ApplicationsOptical frequency combs are indispensable links between the optical and microwave domains. Chip-scale integration promises compact, scalable, and power-efficient frequency comb sources, enabled by the resonantly-enhanced Kerr effect or the electro-optic ...
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Rapid prediction of complex nonlinear dynamics in Kerr resonators using the recurrent neural network [PDF]
Frontiers of OptoelectronicsKerr resonator is one of the most popular platforms to produce optical frequency comb and temporal cavity soliton. As an essential method for investigating the nonlinear dynamics of Kerr resonators, traditional numerical simulations rely on solving the ...
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Low-noise frequency synthesis and terahertz wireless communication driven by compact turnkey Kerr combs [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsHigh frequency microwave, spanning up to terahertz frequency, is pivotal for next-generation communication, sensing and radar. However, it faces fundamental noise limitations when frequency is pushed towards such boundary of conventional electronic ...
Kunpeng Jia +19 more
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Electrically pumped soliton microcombs on thin-film lithium niobate [PDF]
NanophotonicsThin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has enabled efficient on-chip electro-optic modulation and frequency conversion for information processing and precision measurement.
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Kerr-Raman Optical Frequency Combs in Silica Microsphere Pumped Near Zero Dispersion Wavelength
IEEE Access, 2021 Optical frequency combs generated in whispering gallery mode microresonators are in high demand for basic science and a large number of applications including telecommunication systems and quantum optics.
Elena A. Anashkina, Alexey V. Andrianov
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Efficient Kerr soliton comb generation in micro-resonator with interferometric back-coupling
Nature Communications, 2022 Increasing the conversion efficiency of soliton crystals will enable further application of optical frequency comb. Here the authors engineer an hybrid Mach-Zehnder micro-ring resonator to achieve 80% pump-to-comb conversion efficiency based on ...
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Hybrid InP and SiN integration of an octave-spanning frequency comb
APL Photonics, 2021 Implementing optical-frequency combs with integrated photonics will enable wider use of precision timing signals. Here, we explore the generation of an octave-span, Kerr-microresonator frequency comb using hybrid integration of an InP distributed ...
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Stabilized
IEEE Photonics Journal, 2017 We have designed and fabricated a Kerr frequency comb oscillator with 27.5 GHz repetition rate by pumping a whispering gallery mode crystalline resonator with a laser at 1560 nm center wavelength. The oscillator is stabilized to the Rb$^{87}
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Communications Physics, 2023 Kerr optical frequency combs are expected to play a major role in photonic technology, with applications related to spectroscopy, sensing, aerospace, and communication engineering. Most of these applications are related to the metrological performance of
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