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physics.ins-det2020

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…

eess.SY2022

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…

physics.optics2011

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…

physics.optics2010

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…

physics.optics2012

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…

physics.optics2010

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…

physics.optics2025

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…

physics.optics2014

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…

physics.optics2022

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…

physics.optics2017

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…

physics.ins-det2020

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…

quant-ph2025

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…

physics.optics2016

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…

physics.optics2019

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…

physics.optics2022

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…

physics.optics2012

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…

physics.optics2022

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…

physics.optics2007

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…

physics.optics2008

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…

physics.optics2023

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…

physics.optics2017

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…

quant-ph2023

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…

physics.optics2017

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…

physics.optics2014

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…