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physics.optics2023

Observation of Floquet Chern insulators of light

Jicheng Jin, Li He, Jian Lu +5

The field of topological photonics studies unique and robust photonic systems that are immune to defects and disorders due to the protection of their underlying topological phases.…

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…

physics.optics2019

On-chip polarization rotator for type I second harmonic generation

Eric J. Stanton, Lin Chang, Weiqiang Xie +12

We demonstrate a polarization rotator integrated at the output of a GaAs waveguide producing type I second harmonic generation (SHG). Form-birefringent phase matching between the p…

physics.optics2022

Chip-Based Laser with 1 Hertz Integrated Linewidth

Joel Guo, Charles A. McLemore, Chao Xiang +14

Lasers with hertz-level linewidths on timescales up to seconds are critical for precision metrology, timekeeping, and manipulation of quantum systems. Such frequency stability typi…

physics.optics2025

Communication-ready high-power soliton microcombs in highly-dispersive Fabry-Perot-microresonators

Yinke Cheng, Zhenyu Xie, Yuanlei Wang +9

Microcombs generated in optical microresonators are widely regarded as promising light sources for next-generation communication systems, but the optical power available per comb l…

math.AP2022

Convergence rate toward shock wave under periodic perturbation for generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation

Lin Chang

In this paper, a viscous shock wave under space-periodic perturbation of generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation is investigated. It is shown that if the initial periodic pe…

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.optics2021

Laser soliton microcombs on silicon

Chao Xiang, Junqiu Liu, Joel Guo +10

Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. A silicon-based laser frequency combs could significantly expand the applications of silicon p…

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…

math.AP2021

Stability of a Composite Wave of Two Seperate Strong Viscous Shock Waves for 1-D Isentropic Navier-Stokes System

Lin Chang

In this paper, the large time behavior of solutions of 1-D isentropic Navier-Stokes system is investigated. It is shown that a composite wave consisting of two viscous shock waves…

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.optics2025

Recursive Inverse Design Enables Hyper-spectral Photonic Integrated Circuits

Hao He, Zengji Tu, Yuanlei Wang +9

Spectrum manipulation is central to photonic systems, where advanced computing and sensing applications often demand highly complex spectral responses to achieve high throughput. C…

cs.CV2022

An End-to-End Cascaded Image Deraining and Object Detection Neural Network

Kaige Wang, Tianming Wang, Jianchuang Qu +3

While the deep learning-based image deraining methods have made great progress in recent years, there are two major shortcomings in their application in real-world situations. Firs…

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.AP2023

Nonlinear stability of planar shock wave to 3-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations in half space with Navier Boundary conditions

Lin Chang, Lingjun Liu, Lingda Xu

In this paper, we consider the large time behavior of planar shock wave for 3-D compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations (CNS) in half space. Providing the strength of the s…

physics.app-ph2022

Fully on-chip microwave photonics system

Yuansheng Tao, Fenghe Yang, Zihan Tao +6

Microwave photonics (MWP), harnessing the tremendous bandwidth of light to generate, process and measure wideband microwave signals, are poised to spark a new revolution for the in…

physics.optics2017

Quasi-phase-matched supercontinuum-generation in photonic waveguides

Daniel D. Hickstein, Grace C. Kerber, David R. Carlson +7

Supercontinuum generation in integrated photonic waveguides is a versatile source of broadband light, and the generated spectrum is largely determined by the phase-matching conditi…

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…

eess.IV2021

Image Deraining and Denoising Convolutional Neural Network ForAutonomous Driving

Kaige Wang, Long Chen, TIanming Wang +3

Perception plays an important role in reliable decision-making for autonomous vehicles. Over the last ten years, huge advances have been made in the field of perception. However, p…

physics.optics2020

Ultraprecise optical-frequency stabilization with heterogeneous III-V/Si lasers

Liron Stern, Wei Zhang, Lin Chang +8

Demand for low-noise, continuous-wave, frequency-tunable lasers based on semiconductor integrated photonics has been advancing in support of numerous applications. In particular, a…

physics.optics2020

Efficient second harmonic generation in nanophotonic GaAs-on-insulator waveguides

Eric J. Stanton, Jeff Chiles, Nima Nader +6

Nonlinear frequency conversion plays a crucial role in advancing the functionality of next-generation optical systems. Portable metrology references and quantum networks will deman…

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…

physics.optics2020

Ultrahigh-Q AlGaAs-on-insulator microresonators for integrated nonlinear photonics

Weiqiang Xie, Lin Chang, Haowen Shu +4

Aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs) and related III-V semiconductors have excellent optoelectronic properties. They also possess strong material nonlinearity as well as high refract…

physics.optics2022

Expanding the Quantum Photonic Toolbox in AlGaAsOI

Joshua E. Castro, Trevor J. Steiner, Lillian Thiel +6

Aluminum gallium arsenide-on-insulator (AlGaAsOI) exhibits large $χ^\left(2\right)$ and $χ^\left(3\right)$ optical nonlinearities, a wide tunable bandgap, low waveguide propagati…

physics.optics2021

Sub-milliwatt, widely-tunable coherent microcomb generation with feedback-free operation

Haowen Shu, Lin Chang, Chenghao Lao +11

Microcombs are revolutionizing optoelectronics by providing parallelized, mutually coherent wavelength channels for time-frequency metrology and information processing. To implemen…

physics.optics2021

Hybrid InP and SiN integration of an octave-spanning frequency comb

Travis C. Briles, Su-Peng Yu, Lin Chang +7

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-microresona…

quant-ph2021

Roadmap on Integrated Quantum Photonics

Galan Moody, Volker J. Sorger, Daniel J. Blumenthal +52

Integrated photonics is at the heart of many classical technologies, from optical communications to biosensors, LIDAR, and data center fiber interconnects. There is strong evidence…

physics.optics2020

Dissipative Kerr Solitons in a III-V Microresonator

Gregory Moille, Lin Chang, Weiqiang Xie +5

We demonstrate stable microresonator Kerr soliton frequency combs in a III-V platform (AlGaAs on SiO) through quenching of thermorefractive effects by cryogenic cooling to temp…

physics.optics2022

Integrated Passive Nonlinear Optical Isolators

Alexander D. White, Geun Ho Ahn, Kasper Van Gasse +4

Fiber and bulk-optical isolators are widely used to stabilize laser cavities by preventing unwanted feedback. However, their integrated counterparts have been slow to be adopted. W…

physics.optics2019

Improved second harmonic performance in periodically poled LNOI waveguides through engineering of lateral leakage

Andreas Boes, Lin Chang, Markus Knoerzer +4

In this contribution we investigate the impact of lateral leakage for linear and nonlinear optical waveguides in lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI). Silicon nitride (SiN) loaded a…

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.optics2021

Platicon microcomb generation using laser self-injection locking

Grigory Lihachev, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng +7

The past decade has witnessed major advances in the development of microresonator-based frequency combs (microcombs) that are broadband optical frequency combs with repetition rate…

math.AP2021

Stability of Large Amplitude Viscous Shock Wave for 1-D Isentropic Navier-Stokes System in the Half Space

Lin Chang

In this paper, the asymptotic-time behavior of solutions to an initial boundary value problem in the half space for 1-D isentropic Navier-Stokes system is investigated. It is shown…

quant-ph2020

Ultra-bright entangled-photon pair generation from an AlGaAs-on-insulator microring resonator

Trevor J. Steiner, Joshua E. Castro, Lin Chang +5

Entangled-photon pairs are an essential resource for quantum information technologies. Chip-scale sources of entangled pairs have been integrated with various photonic platforms, i…

physics.optics2023

High-coherence parallelization in integrated photonics

Xuguang Zhang, Zixuan Zhou, Yijun Guo +19

Coherent optics has profoundly impacted diverse applications ranging from communications, LiDAR to quantum computations. However, building coherent systems in integrated photonics…

math.AP2024

Stability of strong viscous shock wave under periodic perturbation for 1-D isentropic Navier-Stokes system in the half space

Lin Chang, Lin He, Jin Ma

In this paper, a viscous shock wave under space-periodic perturbation of 1-D isentropic Navier-Stokes system in the half space is investigated. It is shown that if the initial peri…

eess.SP2026

Holographic Surface Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communications

Haobo Zhang, Shuhao Zeng, Xinyuan Hu +12

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is an essential 6G capability for joint data transmission and environmental sensing. To support 6G scenarios with stringent ISAC perfor…

physics.optics2019

Ultra-efficient frequency comb generation in AlGaAs-on-insulator microresonators

Lin Chang, Weiqiang Xie, Haowen Shu +13

Recent advances in nonlinear optics have revolutionized the area of integrated photonics, providing on-chip solutions to a wide range of new applications. Currently, the state of t…

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…

physics.optics2024

Unified laser stabilization and isolation on a silicon chip

Alexander D. White, Geun Ho Ahn, Richard Luhtaru +8

Rapid progress in photonics has led to an explosion of integrated devices that promise to deliver the same performance as table-top technology at the nanoscale; heralding the next…

physics.app-ph2021

Bridging microcombs and silicon photonic engines for optoelectronics systems

Haowen Shu, Lin Chang, Yuansheng Tao +12

Microcombs have sparked a surge of applications over the last decade, ranging from optical communications to metrology. Despite their diverse deployment, most microcomb-based syste…

physics.optics2018

Heterogeneously integrated GaAs waveguides on insulator for efficient frequency conversion

Lin Chang, Andreas Boes, Xiaowen Guo +12

Tremendous scientific progress has been achieved through the development of nonlinear integrated photonics. Prominent examples are Kerr-frequency-comb generation in micro-resonator…

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…

physics.app-ph2017

An Integrated-Photonics Optical-Frequency Synthesizer

Daryl T. Spencer, Tara Drake, Travis C. Briles +24

Integrated-photonics microchips now enable a range of advanced functionalities for high-coherence applications such as data transmission, highly optimized physical sensors, and har…

physics.optics2024

Microresonator-referenced soliton microcombs with zeptosecond-level timing noise

Xing Jin, Zhenyu Xie, Xiangpeng Zhang +6

Optical frequency division relies on optical frequency combs to coherently translate ultra-stable optical frequency references to the microwave domain. This technology has enabled…

physics.app-ph2021

Inverse-designed multi-dimensional silicon photonic transmitters

Ki Youl Yang, Alexander D. White, Farshid Ashtiani +33

Modern microelectronic processors have migrated towards parallel computing architectures with many-core processors. However, such expansion comes with diminishing returns exacted b…

physics.optics2022

Soliton generation in AlGaAs microresonators at room temperature

Lue Wu, Weiqiang Xie, Chao Xiang +7

Chip-integrated optical frequency combs are attractive optical sources in comb applications requiring high-repetition-rate, low power consumption, or compact size. Spontaneous soli…