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Publications (52)

cs.SD2023

uSee: Unified Speech Enhancement and Editing with Conditional Diffusion Models

Muqiao Yang, Chunlei Zhang, Yong Xu +4

Speech enhancement aims to improve the quality of speech signals in terms of quality and intelligibility, and speech editing refers to the process of editing the speech according t…

physics.optics2020

Quantum diffusion of microcavity solitons

Chengying Bao, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Boqiang Shen +9

Coherently-pumped (Kerr) solitons in an ideal optical microcavity are expected to undergo random quantum motion that determines fundamental performance limits in applications of so…

physics.optics2018

Vernier spectrometer using counter-propagating soliton microcombs

Qi-Fan Yang, Boqiang Shen, Heming Wang +8

Acquisition of laser frequency with high resolution under continuous and abrupt tuning conditions is important for sensing, spectroscopy and communications. Here, a single microres…

cs.LG2026

CbLDM: A Diffusion Model for recovering nanostructure from atomic pair distribution function

Jiarui Cao, Zhiyang Zhang, Heming Wang +4

The nanostructure inverse problem is an attractive problem that helps researchers to understand the relationship between the properties and the structure of nanomaterials. This stu…

math.AP2023

On the density and multiplicity of solutions to the fractional Nirenberg problem

Zhongwei Tang, Heming Wang, Ning Zhou

This paper is devoted to establishing some results on the density and multiplicity of solutions to the fractional Nirenberg problem which is equivalent to studying the conformally…

physics.optics2022

Integrated Pockels Laser

Mingxiao Li, Lin Chang, Lue Wu +14

The development of integrated semiconductor lasers has miniaturized traditional bulky laser systems, enabling a wide range of photonic applications. A progression from pure III-V b…

eess.AS2023

Leveraging Laryngograph Data for Robust Voicing Detection in Speech

Yixuan Zhang, Heming Wang, DeLiang Wang

Accurately detecting voiced intervals in speech signals is a critical step in pitch tracking and has numerous applications. While conventional signal processing methods and deep le…

physics.app-ph2023

Three-dimensional integration enables ultra-low-noise, isolator-free Si photonics

Chao Xiang, Warren Jin, Osama Terra +12

While photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are being widely used in applications such as telecommunications and datacenter interconnects, PICs capable of replacing bulk optics and f…

physics.optics2021

Self-regulating soliton domain walls in microresonators

Heming Wang, Boqiang Shen, Yan Yu +9

Dissipative soliton Kerr frequency combs in microresonators have recently been demonstrated with the self-injection locking process. They have the advantage of turnkey deterministi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Topology of the generalized Brillouin zone of one-dimensional models

Heming Wang, Janet Zhong, Shanhui Fan

The generalized Brillouin zones (GBZs) are integral in the analysis of non-Hermitian band structures. Conventional wisdom suggests that the GBZ should be connected, where each poin…

math.DG2026

Prescribed -curvature flow on the four-dimensional unit ball

Pak Tung Ho, Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye, Liming Sun +1

In this paper, we study the prescribed -curvature problem on the unit ball of via the -curvature flow approach. By combining Ache-Chang's inequ…

eess.AS2023

Unifying Robustness and Fidelity: A Comprehensive Study of Pretrained Generative Methods for Speech Enhancement in Adverse Conditions

Heming Wang, Meng Yu, Hao Zhang +5

Enhancing speech signal quality in adverse acoustic environments is a persistent challenge in speech processing. Existing deep learning based enhancement methods often struggle to…

physics.optics2025

Lorentz-Drude dipoles in the radiative limit and their modeling in finite-difference time-domain methods

Heming Wang, Shanhui Fan

The Lorentz-Drude model for electric dipoles is a classical framework widely used in the study of dipole dynamics and light-matter interactions. Here we focus on the behaviors of L…

physics.optics2025

Integrated magneto-optic based magnetometer: classical and quantum limits

Paolo Pintus, Heming Wang, Sudharsanan Srinivasan +6

Magnetic field sensors with high sensitivity and spatial resolution have profoundly impacted diverse applications ranging from geo-positioning and navigation to medical imaging, ma…

physics.optics2022

Brillouin Backaction Thermometry for Modal Temperature Control

Yu-Hung Lai, Zhiquan Yuan, Myoung-Gyun Suh +3

Stimulated Brillouin scattering provides optical gain for efficient and narrow-linewidth lasers in high-Q microresonator systems. However, the thermal dependence of the Brillouin p…

eess.AS2024

DDTSE: Discriminative Diffusion Model for Target Speech Extraction

Leying Zhang, Yao Qian, Linfeng Yu +5

Diffusion models have gained attention in speech enhancement tasks, providing an alternative to conventional discriminative methods. However, research on target speech extraction u…

physics.optics2023

Experimentally Realizing Convolution Processing in the Photonic Synthetic Frequency Dimension

Lingling Fan, Kai Wang, Heming Wang +2

Convolution is an essential operation in signal and image processing and consumes most of the computing power in convolutional neural networks. Photonic convolution has the promise…

cs.CV2022

Single-shot ToF sensing with sub-mm precision using conventional CMOS sensors

Manuel Ballester, Heming Wang, Jiren Li +2

We present a novel single-shot interferometric ToF camera targeted for precise 3D measurements of dynamic objects. The camera concept is based on Synthetic Wavelength Interferometr…

physics.optics2019

Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs operated at CMOS frequencies

Boqiang Shen, Lin Chang, Junqiu Liu +14

While soliton microcombs offer the potential for integration of powerful frequency metrology and precision spectroscopy systems, their operation requires complex startup and feedba…

eess.AS2024

Combined Generative and Predictive Modeling for Speech Super-resolution

Heming Wang, Eric W. Healy, DeLiang Wang

Speech super-resolution (SR) is the task that restores high-resolution speech from low-resolution input. Existing models employ simulated data and constrained experimental settings…

physics.ins-det2019

Petermann-factor limited sensing near an exceptional point

Heming Wang, Yu-Hung Lai, Zhiquan Yuan +2

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians describing open systems can feature singularities called exceptional points (EPs). Resonant frequencies become strongly dependent on externally applied p…

cs.CL2022

Wav2vec-Switch: Contrastive Learning from Original-noisy Speech Pairs for Robust Speech Recognition

Yiming Wang, Jinyu Li, Heming Wang +3

The goal of self-supervised learning (SSL) for automatic speech recognition (ASR) is to learn good speech representations from a large amount of unlabeled speech for the downstream…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Topological nature of edge states for one-dimensional systems without symmetry protection

Janet Zhong, Heming Wang, Alexander N Poddubny +1

We numerically verify and analytically prove a winding number invariant that correctly predicts the number of edge states in one-dimensional, nearest-neighbor (between unit cells),…

quant-ph2025

Braiding of dynamical eigenvalues of Hermitian bosonic Kitaev chains

Heming Wang, Shanhui Fan

In quantum mechanics, observables correspond to Hermitian operators, and the spectra are restricted to be real. However, the dynamics of the underlying fields may allow complex eig…

physics.optics2024

Pockels Laser Directly Driving Ultrafast Optical Metrology

Shixin Xue, Mingxiao Li, Raymond Lopez-rios +10

The invention of the laser unleashed the potential of optical metrology, leading to numerous advancements in modern science and technology. This reliance on lasers, however, also s…

physics.optics2023

Engineered zero-dispersion microcombs using CMOS-ready photonics

Qing-Xin Ji, Warren Jin, Lue Wu +14

Normal group velocity dispersion (GVD) microcombs offer high comb line power and high pumping efficiency compared to bright pulse microcombs. The recent demonstration of normal GVD…

physics.optics2021

Probing material absorption and optical nonlinearity of integrated photonic materials

Maodong Gao, Qi-Fan Yang, Qing-Xin Ji +12

Optical microresonators with high quality () factors are essential to a wide range of integrated photonic devices. Steady efforts have been directed towards increasing microreso…

physics.optics2018

A self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb

Yang HE, Qi-Fan Yang, Jingwei Ling +7

For its many useful properties, including second and third-order optical nonlinearity as well as electro-optic control, lithium niobate is considered an important potential microco…

physics.optics2020

Hertz-linewidth semiconductor lasers using CMOS-ready ultra-high- microresonators

Warren Jin, Qi-Fan Yang, Lin Chang +8

Driven by narrow-linewidth bench-top lasers, coherent optical systems spanning optical communications, metrology and sensing provide unrivalled performance. To transfer these capab…

physics.optics2024

Chip-scale high-performance photonic microwave oscillator

Yang He, Long Cheng, Heming Wang +5

Optical frequency division based on bulk or fiber optics provides unprecedented spectral purity for microwave oscillators. To extend the applications of this approach, the big chal…

eess.AS2026

Preserving Speech-to-Text LLM Capabilities in Speech-to-Speech Generation

Yuxuan Hu, Heng Lu, Ruchao Fan +8

Strong speech-to-text (S2T) LLMs already provide robust speech perception and text reasoning, but adding speech-to-speech (S2S) output is challenging: fine-tuning the backbone can…

math.AP2022

Unified results of compactness and existence for prescribing fractional -curvatures problem

Yan Li, Zhongwei Tang, Heming Wang +1

In this paper we study the problem of prescribing fractional -curvature of order for a conformal metric on the standard sphere $\Sn$ with and . Com…

physics.optics2024

Non-Abelian lattice gauge fields in the photonic synthetic frequency dimension

Dali Cheng, Kai Wang, Charles Roques-Carmes +4

Non-Abelian gauge fields provide a conceptual framework for the description of particles having spins. The theoretical importance of non-Abelian gauge fields motivates their experi…

physics.optics2023

Soliton pulse pairs at multiple colors in normal dispersion microresonators

Zhiquan Yuan, Maodong Gao, Yan Yu +7

Soliton microcombs are helping to advance the miniaturization of a range of comb systems. These combs mode lock through the formation of short temporal pulses in anomalous dispersi…

physics.optics2022

Self-injection-locked second-harmonic integrated source

Jingwei Ling, Jeremy Staffa, Heming Wang +12

High coherence visible and near-visible laser sources are centrally important to the operation of advanced position/navigation/timing systems as well as classical/quantum sensing s…

math-ph2024

One-dimensional non-Hermitian band structures as Riemann surfaces

Heming Wang, Lingling Fan, Shanhui Fan

We present the viewpoint of treating one-dimensional band structures as Riemann surfaces, linking the unique properties of non-Hermiticity to the geometry and topology of the Riema…

physics.optics2023

Broadband quantum-dot frequency-modulated comb laser

Bozhang Dong, Mario Dumont, Osama Terra +3

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-di…

physics.optics2021

High-performance lasers for fully integrated silicon nitride photonics

Chao Xiang, Joel Guo, Warren Jin +12

Silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides with ultra-low optical loss enable integrated photonic applications including low noise, narrow linewidth lasers, chip-scale nonlinear photonics, a…

math.AP2025

A degree-counting formula for a Keller-Segel equation on a surface with boundary

Mohameden Ahmedou, Zhengni Hu, Heming Wang

In this paper, we consider the following Keller-Segel equation on a compact Riemann surface with smooth boundary : \[ -Δ_g u = ρ\Big(\frac{V e^u}{\int_Σ V…

physics.optics2025

Creating high-dimensional topological physics using a single ring resonator

Dali Cheng, Heming Wang, Charles Roques-Carmes +2

In spaces of three or more dimensions, there exists topological physics of significant richness that has no lower-dimensional counterparts. To experimentally explore high-dimension…

physics.optics2022

Correlated self-heterodyne method for ultra-low-noise laser linewidth measurements

Zhiquan Yuan, Heming Wang, Peng Liu +9

Narrow-linewidth lasers are important to many applications spanning precision metrology to sensing systems. Characterization of these lasers requires precise measurements of their…

math.AP2024

New type of bubbling solutions to a critical fractional Schrödinger equation with double potentials

Ting Li, Zhongwei Tang, Heming Wang +1

In this paper, we study the following critical fractional Schrödinger equation: \begin{equation} (-Δ)^s u+V(|y'|,y'')u=K(|y'|,y'')u^{\frac{n+2s}{n-2s}},\quad u>0,\quad y =(y',y''…

physics.optics2017

Towards visible soliton microcomb generation

Seung Hoon Lee, Dong Yoon Oh, Qi-Fan Yang +7

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…

physics.optics2025

Experimental observation of energy-band Riemann surface

Dali Cheng, Heming Wang, Janet Zhong +3

Non-Hermiticity naturally arises in many physical systems that exchange energy with their environment. The presence of non-Hermiticity leads to many novel topological physics pheno…

cs.SD2024

SpatialCodec: Neural Spatial Speech Coding

Zhongweiyang Xu, Yong Xu, Vinay Kothapally +3

In this work, we address the challenge of encoding speech captured by a microphone array using deep learning techniques with the aim of preserving and accurately reconstructing cru…

physics.optics2024

Turnkey locking of quantum-dot lasers directly grown on Si

Bozhang Dong, Yating Wan, Weng W. Chow +5

Ultra-low-noise laser sources are crucial for a variety of applications, including microwave synthesizers, optical gyroscopes, and the manipulation of quantum systems. Silicon phot…

cs.SD2021

Improving Noise Robustness of Contrastive Speech Representation Learning with Speech Reconstruction

Heming Wang, Yao Qian, Xiaofei Wang +6

Noise robustness is essential for deploying automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in real-world environments. One way to reduce the effect of noise interference is to employ a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Pole and zero edge state invariant for 1D non-Hermitian sublattice symmetry

Janet Zhong, Heming Wang, Shanhui Fan

There have been several criteria for the existence of topological edge states in 1D non-Hermitian two-band sublattice-symmetric tight-binding Hamiltonians. The generalized Brilloui…

physics.optics2021

Extending the spectrum of fully integrated photonics

Minh Tran, Chong Zhang, Theodore Morin +15

Integrated photonics has profoundly impacted a wide range of technologies underpinning modern society. The ability to fabricate a complete optical system on a chip offers unrivalle…

physics.optics2020

Forced Oscillatory Motion of Trapped Counter-Propagating Solitons

Chengying Bao, Boqiang Shen, Myoung-Gyun Suh +6

Both the group velocity and phase velocity of two solitons can be synchronized by a Kerr-effect mediated interaction, causing what is known as soliton trapping. Trapping can occur…

math.AP2024

On the CR Nirenberg problem: density and multiplicity of solutions

Zhongwei Tang, Heming Wang, Bingwei Zhang

We prove some results on the density and multiplicity of positive solutions to the prescribed Webster scalar curvature problem on the -dimensional standard unit CR sphere $…

eess.SP2018

A Novel Foward-PDE Approach as an Alternative to Empirical Mode Decomposition

Heming Wang, Richard Mann, Edward R. Vrscay

In this paper we present a mathematical model of the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). Although EMD is a powerful tool for signal processing, the algorithm itself lacks an approp…