Publications (24)
A chip-scale oscillation-mode optomechanical inertial sensor near the thermodynamical limits
Yongjun Huang, Jaime Gonzalo Flor Flores, Ying Li +11
High-precision inertial sensing and gravity sensing are key in navigation, oil exploration, and earthquake prediction. In contrast to prior accelerometers using piezoelectric or el…
Parametrically driven inertial sensing in chip-scale optomechanical cavities at the thermodynamical limits with extended dynamic range
Jaime Gonzalo Flor Flores, Talha Yerebakan, Wenting Wang +4
Recent scientific and technological advances have enabled the detection of gravitational waves, autonomous driving, and the proposal of a communications network on the Moon (Lunar…
Selective tuning of high-Q silicon photonic crystal nanocavities via laser-assisted local oxidation
Charlton J. Chen, Jiangjun Zheng, Tingyi Gu +5
We examine the cavity resonance tuning of high-Q silicon photonic crystal heterostructures by localized laser-assisted thermal oxidation using a 532 nm continuous wave laser focuse…
Observations of four-wave mixing in slow-light silicon photonic crystal waveguides
James F. McMillan, Mingbin Yu, Dim-Lee Kwong +1
Four-wave mixing is observed in a silicon W1 photonic crystal waveguide. The dispersion dependence of the idler conversion efficiency is measured and shown to be enhanced at wavele…
Regenerative oscillation and four-wave mixing in graphene optoelectronics
Tingyi Gu, Nick Petrone, James F. McMillian +6
The unique linear and massless band structure of graphene, in a purely two-dimensional Dirac fermionic structure, have led to intense research spanning from condensed matter physic…
Deterministic integrated tuning of multi-cavity resonances and phase for slow-light in coupled photonic crystal cavities
Tingyi Gu, Serdar Kocaman, Xiaodong Yang +5
We present the integrated chip-scale tuning of multiple photonic crystal cavities. The optimized implementation allows effective and precise tuning of multiple cavity resonances (u…
Mapping ultrafast timing jitter in dispersion-managed 89 GHz frequency microcombs via self-heterodyne linear interferometry
Wenting Wang, Hao Liu, Jinghui Yang +10
Laser frequency microcombs provide equidistant coherent frequency markers over a broad spectrum, enabling new frontiers in chip-scale frequency metrology, laser spectroscopy, dense…
Molecular-absorption-induced thermal bistablity in PECVD silicon nitride microring resonators
Tingyi Gu, Mingbin Yu, Dim-Lee Kwong +1
The wavelength selective linear absorption in communication C-band is investigated in CMOS-processed PECVD silicon nitride rings. In the overcoupled region, the linear absorption l…
Spontaneous microwave platicon frequency microcomb in dispersion-managed microresonators
Wenting Wang, Jinkang Lim, Abhinav Kumar Vinod +3
Temporally stabilized optical pules, confined in microresonators driven by a continuous-wave laser, have attracted tremendous attention due to their fascinating features with many…
Globally stable microresonator Turing pattern formation for coherent high-power THz radiation on-chip
Shu-Wei Huang, Jinghui Yang, Shang-Hua Yang +5
In nonlinear microresonators driven by continuous-wave (cw) lasers, Turing patterns have been studied in the formalism of Lugiato-Lefever equation with emphasis on its high coheren…
Nanometric precision distance metrology via chip-scale soliton microcombs
Yoon-Soo Jang, Hao Liu, Jinghui Yang +3
Laser interferometry serves a fundamental role in science and technology, assisting precision metrology and dimensional length measurement. During the past decade, laser frequency…
Quantum teleportation of an elemental silicon nanophotonic CNOT gate
Kai-Chi Chang, Xiang Cheng, Felix Ribuot-Hirsch +7
Large-scale quantum computers possess the capacity to effectively tackle practical problems that can be insurmountable for classical computers. The main challenge in building these…
A stabilized chip-scale Kerr frequency comb via a high-Q reference photonic microresonator
Jinkang Lim, Shu-Wei Huang, Abhinav K. Vinod +7
We stabilize a chip-scale Si3N4 phase-locked Kerr frequency comb via locking the pump laser to an independent stable high-Q reference microresonator and locking the comb spacing to…
Coherent satellites in multi-spectral regenerative frequency microcombs
Jinghui Yang, Shu-Wei Huang, Zhenda Xie +3
Multi-spectral frequency combs provide frontier architectures for laser standoff spectroscopy, optical clockwork, and high-capacity optical communications. Frequency microcombs, ai…
Stimulated generation of deterministic platicon frequency microcombs
Hao Liu, Shu-Wei Huang, Wenting Wang +5
Dissipative Kerr soliton generation in chip-scale nonlinear resonators has recently observed remarkable advances, spanning from massively-parallel communications, self-referenced o…
Near-infrared Hong-Ou-Mandel interference on a silicon quantum photonic circuit
Xinan Xu, Zhenda Xie, Jiangjun Zheng +9
Near-infrared Hong-Ou-Mandel quantum interference is observed in silicon nanophotonic directional couplers with raw visibilities on-chip at 90.5%. Spectrally-bright 1557-nm two-pho…
Coherent terahertz radiation with 2.8-octave tunability through chip-scale photomixed microresonator optical parametric oscillation
Wenting Wang, Ping-Keng Lu, Abhinav Kumar Vinod +7
High spectral purity frequency agile room temperature sources in the terahertz spectrum are foundational elements for imaging, sensing, metrology, and communications. Here we prese…
Observation of femto-joule optical bistability involving Fano resonances in high-Q/Vm silicon photonic crystal nanocavities
Xiaodong Yang, Chad Husko, Mingbin Yu +2
We observe experimentally optical bistability enhanced through Fano interferences in high-Q localized silicon photonic crystal resonances (Q ~ 30,000 and modal volume ~ 0.98 cubic…
Deterministic control of all-optical analogue to electromagnetically induced transparency in coherently-coupled silicon photonic crystal cavities
Xiaodong Yang, Mingbin Yu, Dim-Lee Kwong +1
Quantum coherence in atomic systems has led to fascinating outcomes, such as laser cooling and trapping, Bose-Einstein condensates, and electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EI…
Polarization-diverse soliton transitions and deterministic switching dynamics in strongly-coupled and self-stabilized microresonator frequency combs
Wenting Wang, Heng Zhou, Xinghe Jiang +6
Dissipative Kerr soliton microcombs in microresonators has enabled fundamental advances in chip scale precision metrology, communication, spectroscopy, and parallel signal processi…
Mesoscopic chaos mediated by Drude electron-hole plasma in silicon optomechanical oscillators
Jiagui Wu, Shu-Wei Huang, Yongjun Huang +8
Chaos has revolutionized the field of nonlinear science and stimulated foundational studies from neural networks, extreme event statistics, to physics of electron transport. Recent…
A chip-scale polarization-spatial-momentum quantum SWAP gate in silicon nanophotonics
Xiang Cheng, Kai-Chi Chang, Zhenda Xie +12
Recent progress in quantum computing and networking enables high-performance large-scale quantum processors by connecting different quantum modules. Optical quantum systems show ad…
Broadband gate-tunable THz plasmons in graphene heterostructures
Baicheng Yao, Yuan Liu, Shu-Wei Huang +10
Graphene, a unique two-dimensional material of carbon in a honeycomb lattice, has brought remarkable breakthroughs across the domains of electronics, mechanics, and thermal transpo…
Radio frequency regenerative oscillations in monolithic high-Q/V heterostructured photonic crystal cavities
Jinghui Yang, Tingyi Gu, Jiangjun Zheng +4
We report temporal and spectral domain observation of regenerative oscillation in monolithic silicon heterostructured photonic crystals cavities with high quality factor to mode vo…