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20142026
most citedμW-Level Microresonator Solitons with Extended Stability Range Using an Auxiliary Laser

247 citations · 1.1k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

physics.optics2026

Twin-photon generation in a silicon nitride microresonator

Franz Pacher, Haochen Yan, Alekhya Ghosh +8

Photonic chips with silicon nitride () microring resonators are well established as heralded single-photon sources, but their operation as frequency-degenerate tw…

physics.optics2026

Fourth-harmonic UV light generation in integrated silicon nitride microresonators

Alekhya Ghosh, Arghadeep Pal, Haochen Yan +6

Integrated silicon nitride (Si3N4) resonators have emerged as a leading platform for nonlinear photonics, yet generating light at wavelength in the ultraviolet (UV) has remained el…

physics.optics2026

Color symmetry breaking in a nonlinear optical microcavity

Luca O. Trinchão, Alekhya Ghosh, Arghadeep Pal +8

Spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to diverse phenomena across the natural sciences, from the Higgs mechanism in particle physics to superconductors and collective animal behavior…

physics.optics2025

Scattering Induced Mode Chirality in Ring Resonators

Haochen Yan, Xu Guo, Arghadeep Pal +15

Non-Hermitian physics can be used to break time reversal symmetry and is important for interactions in a wide range of systems, from active matter and neural networks to metamateri…

physics.optics2025

Visualization of nonlinear optics in a microresonator

Hao Zhang, Haochen Yan, Alekhya Ghosh +10

A precise understanding of nonlinear optical phenomena in whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators is crucial for developing next-generation integrated photonic devices. Appli…

physics.optics2025

Simplified Aluminum Nitride Processing for Low-Loss Integrated Photonics and Nonlinear Optics

Haochen Yan, Shuangyou Zhang, Arghadeep Pal +12

Aluminum nitride (AlN) is an extremely promising material for integrated photonics because of the combination of strong \c{hi}2 and \c{hi}3 nonlinearities. However, the intrinsic h…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Inverse-Designed Silicon Nitride Nanophotonics

Toby Bi, Shuangyou Zhang, Egemen Bostan +12

Silicon nitride photonics has enabled integration of a variety of components for applications in linear and nonlinear optics, including telecommunications, optical clocks, astrocom…

physics.optics2025

Hybrid Nonlinear Effects in Photonic Integrated Circuits

Arghadeep Pal, Alekhya Ghosh, Shuangyou Zhang +5

Nonlinear optics in photonic integrated circuits is usually limited to utilizing the nonlinearity of a single material. In this work, we demonstrate the use of hybrid optical nonli…

physics.optics2024★ 8 cited

Phase Symmetry Breaking of Counterpropagating Light in Microresonators for Switches and Logic Gates

Alekhya Ghosh, Arghadeep Pal, Shuangyou Zhang +3

The rapidly growing field of integrated photonics is enabling a large number of novel devices for optical data processing, neuromorphic computing and circuits for quantum photonics…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Linear and Nonlinear Coupling of Light in Twin-Resonators with Kerr Nonlinearity

Arghadeep Pal, Alekhya Ghosh, Shuangyou Zhang +6

Nonlinear effects in microresonators are efficient building blocks for all-optical computing and telecom systems. With the latest advances in microfabrication, coupled microresonat…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Controlled light distribution with coupled microresonator chains via Kerr symmetry breaking

Alekhya Ghosh, Arghadeep Pal, Lewis Hill +7

Within optical microresonators, the Kerr interaction of photons can lead to symmetry breaking of optical modes. In a ring resonator, this leads to the interesting effect that light…

physics.optics2024★ 18 cited

Real-time imaging of standing-wave patterns in microresonators

Haochen Yan, Alekhya Ghosh, Arghadeep Pal +9

Real-time characterization of microresonator dynamics is important for many applications. In particular it is critical for near-field sensing and understanding light-matter interac…

physics.optics2023

Microresonator soliton frequency combs via cascaded Brillouin scattering

Hao Zhang, Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi +7

We demonstrate Kerr soliton frequency comb generation that is seeded by a cascaded Brillouin scattering process. In this process, a pump laser is used to generate multiple orders o…

physics.optics2023★ 36 cited

Femtosecond pulse amplification on a chip

Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Markus Ludwig, Kai Wang +13

Femtosecond laser pulses enable the synthesis of light across the electromagnetic spectrum and provide access to ultrafast phenomena in physics, biology, and chemistry. Chip-integr…

physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

On-the-fly precision spectroscopy with a dual-modulated tunable diode laser and Hz-level referencing to a cavity

Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, Pascal Del'Haye

Advances in high-resolution laser spectroscopy have enabled many scientific breakthroughs in physics, chemistry, biology and astronomy. Optical frequency combs have pushed measurem…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Kerr Frequency Combs: A Million ways to fit light pulses into tiny rings

Aurélien Coillet, Shuangyou Zhang, Pascal Del'Haye

Frequency combs can be generated in millimeter-sized optical resonators thanks to their ability to store extremely high light intensities and the nonlinearity of their materials. N…

physics.optics2023★ 50 cited

Room-Temperature Sputtered Ultralow-loss Silicon Nitride for Hybrid Photonic Integration

Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, Irina Harder +5

Silicon-nitride-on-insulator photonic circuits have seen tremendous advances in many applications, such as on-chip frequency combs, Lidar, telecommunications, and spectroscopy. So…

cs.LG2022★ 35 cited

Machine Learning Assisted Inverse Design of Microresonators

Arghadeep Pal, Alekhya Ghosh, Shuangyou Zhang +2

The high demand for fabricating microresonators with desired optical properties has led to various techniques to optimize geometries, mode structures, nonlinearities and dispersion…

physics.optics2022★ 23 cited

Microresonator Soliton Frequency Combs in the Zero-Dispersion Regime

Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, Pascal Del'Haye

Chip-scale optical frequency combs have attracted significant research interest and can be used in applications ranging from precision spectroscopy to telecom channel generators an…

physics.optics2022

Switching fronts, plateaus and Kerr oscillations of counterpropagating light in ring resonators

Graeme N. Campbell, Shuangyou Zhang, Leonardo Del Bino +2

We characterise stationary fronts and dark solitons for counterpropagating waves in micro-ring and fibre resonators with two input fields, normal dispersion and nonlocal coupling.…

physics.optics2021★ 54 cited

A Kerr Polarization Controller

Niall Moroney, Leonardo Del Bino, Shuangyou Zhang +10

Kerr-effect-induced changes of the polarization state of light are well known in pulsed laser systems. An example is nonlinear polarization rotation, which is critical to the opera…

physics.optics2021★ 59 cited

Dark-Bright Soliton Bound States in a Microresonator

Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, George N. Ghalanos +3

The recent discovery of dissipative Kerr solitons in microresonators has facilitated the development of fully coherent, chip-scale frequency combs. In addition, dark soliton pulses…

physics.optics2021★ 25 cited

Kerr-Nonlinearity-Induced Mode-Splitting in Optical Microresonators

George N. Ghalanos, Jonathan M. Silver, Leonardo Del Bino +5

The Kerr effect in optical microresonators plays an important role for integrated photonic devices and enables third harmonic generation, four-wave mixing, and the generation of mi…

physics.optics2020★ 40 cited

Logic Gates based on Interaction of Counterpropagating Light in Microresonators

Niall Moroney, Leonardo Del Bino, Michael T. M. Woodley +5

Optical logic has the potential to replace electronics with photonic circuits in applications for which optic-to-electronic conversion is impractical and for integrated all-optical…