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most citedMassively parallel coherent laser ranging using soliton microcombs

739 citations · 4.4k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Dynamic Interplay Between Kerr Combs and Brillouin Lasing in Fiber Cavities

Erwan Lucas, Moise Deroh, Bertrand Kibler

We study a re-configurable nonreciprocal fiber ring cavity setup to generate tunable optical frequency combs. Coherent combs can be obtained by finely exploiting bi-chromatic Brill…

physics.optics2022★ 91 cited

Tailoring microcombs with inverse-designed, meta-dispersion microresonators

Erwan Lucas, Su-Peng Yu, Travis C. Briles +2

Nonlinear-wave mixing in optical microresonators offers new perspectives to generate compact optical-frequency microcombs, which enable an ever-growing number of applications. Micr…

physics.optics2021★ 86 cited

A continuum of bright and dark pulse states in a photonic-crystal resonator

Su-Peng Yu, Erwan Lucas, Jizhao Zang +1

Nonlinearity is a powerful determinant of physical systems. Controlling nonlinearity leads to interesting states of matter and new applications. In optics, diverse families of cont…

physics.optics2020★ 47 cited

Gain-switched semiconductor laser driven soliton microcombs

Wenle Weng, Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, Jijun He +5

Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) have been generated via injection locking of chipscale microresonators to continuous-wave (CW) III-V lasers. This advance has enabled fully integra…

physics.app-ph2020★ 195 cited

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Junqiu Liu, Hao Tian, Erwan Lucas +9

High-speed laser frequency actuation is critical in all applications employing lasers and frequency combs, and is prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stabil…

physics.app-ph2019★ 739 cited

Massively parallel coherent laser ranging using soliton microcombs

Johann Riemensberger, Anton Lukashchuk, Maxim Karpov +4

Coherent ranging, also known as frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser based ranging (LIDAR) is currently developed for long range 3D distance and velocimetry in autonomo…

physics.app-ph2019★ 30 cited

Packaged photonic chip-based soliton microcomb using an ultralow-noise laser

Arslan S. Raja, Junqiu Liu, Nicolas Volet +7

Photonic chip-based soliton microcombs have shown rapid progress and have already been used in many system-level applications, including coherent communications, astrophysical spec…

physics.optics2019★ 22 cited

Cherenkov radiation induced symmetry breaking in counter propagating dissipative Kerr solitons

Romain Bouchand, Wenle Weng, Erwan Lucas +1

The process of soliton Cherenkov radiation (also known as dispersive wave emission) in microresonator frequency combs plays a critical role in generating broadband and coherent mic…

physics.optics2019★ 286 cited

Dynamics of soliton crystals in optical microresonators

Maxim Karpov, Martin H. P. Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo +3

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators provide a unifying framework for nonlinear optical physics with photonic-integrated technologies and have recently been employe…

physics.app-ph2019★ 172 cited

Ultralow-Noise Photonic Microwave Synthesis using a Soliton Microcomb-based Transfer Oscillator

Erwan Lucas, Pierre Brochard, Romain Bouchand +3

The synthesis of ultralow-noise microwaves is of both scientific and technological relevance for timing, metrology, communications and radio-astronomy. Today, the lowest reported p…

physics.optics2019★ 168 cited

Thermo-refractive noise in silicon nitride microresonators

Guanhao Huang, Erwan Lucas, Junqiu Liu +5

Thermodynamic noise places a fundamental limit on the frequency stability of dielectric optical resonators. Here, we present the characterization of thermo-refractive noise in phot…

physics.optics2019★ 490 cited

Nanophotonic soliton-based microwave synthesizers

Junqiu Liu, Erwan Lucas, Arslan S. Raja +7

Microwave photonic technologies, which upshift the carrier into the optical domain to facilitate the generation and processing of ultrawide-band electronic signals at vastly reduce…

physics.optics2019★ 107 cited

Heteronuclear soliton molecules in optical microresonators

Wenle Weng, Romain Bouchand, Erwan Lucas +3

Optical soliton molecules are bound states of solitons that arise from the balance between attractive and repulsive effects. Having been observed in systems ranging from optical fi…

physics.optics2018★ 231 cited

Electrically pumped photonic integrated soliton microcomb

Arslan S. Raja, Andrey S. Voloshin, Hairun Guo +11

Optical frequency combs have revolutionized frequency metrology and timekeeping, and can be used in a wide range of optical technologies. Advances are under way that allow dramatic…

physics.app-ph2018★ 107 cited

Spectral purification of microwave signals with disciplined dissipative Kerr solitons

Wenle Weng, Erwan Lucas, Grigory Lihachev +4

Continuous-wave-driven Kerr nonlinear microresonators give rise to self-organization in terms of dissipative Kerr solitons, which constitute optical frequency combs that can be use…

physics.optics2018★ 170 cited

Spatial multiplexing of soliton microcombs

Erwan Lucas, Grigori Lihachev, Romain Bouchand +5

Dual-comb interferometry utilizes two optical frequency combs to map the optical field's spectrum to a radio-frequency signal without using moving parts, allowing improved speed an…

physics.optics2017★ 44 cited

Inter-mode breather solitons in optical microresonators

Hairun Guo, Erwan Lucas, Martin H. P. Pfeiffer +6

The observation of temporal dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators provides, on the applied side, compact sources of coherent optical frequency combs that have alread…

physics.optics2017★ 320 cited

Octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in microresonators

Martin H. P. Pfeiffer, Clemens Herkommer, Junqiu Liu +5

Octave-spanning, self-referenced frequency combs are applied in diverse fields ranging from precision metrology to astrophysical spectrometer calibration. In the past decade, Kerr…

nlin.PS2016★ 136 cited

Soliton dual comb in crystalline microresonators

N. G. Pavlov, G. Lihachev, S. Koptyaev +6

We present a novel compact dual-comb source based on a monolithic optical crystalline MgF multi-resonator stack. The coherent soliton combs generated in two microresonators of…

physics.optics2016★ 208 cited

Breathing dissipative solitons in optical microresonators

Erwan Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo +2

Dissipative solitons are self-localized structures resulting from a double balance between dispersion and nonlinearity as well as dissipation and a driving force. They occur in a w…

physics.optics2016★ 74 cited

Detuning-dependent Properties and Dispersion-induced Instabilities of Temporal Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators

Erwan Lucas, Hairun Guo, John D. Jost +2

Temporal-dissipative Kerr solitons are self-localized light pulses sustained in driven nonlinear optical resonators. Their realization in microresonators has enabled compact source…

physics.optics2016★ 180 cited

Self-referencing of an on-chip soliton Kerr frequency comb without external broadening

Victor Brasch, Erwan Lucas, John D. Jost +2

Self-referencing turns pulsed laser systems into self-referenced frequency combs. Such frequency combs allow counting of optical frequencies and have a wide range of applications.…

physics.optics2016★ 513 cited

Universal dynamics and controlled switching of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

M. Karpov, H. Guo, E. Lucas +6

Dissipative temporal Kerr solitons in optical microresonators enable to convert a continuous wave laser into a train of femtosecond pulses. Of particular interest are single solito…

physics.optics2015★ 30 cited

All Optical Stabilization of a Soliton Frequency Comb in a Crystalline Microresonator

J. D. Jost, E. Lucas, T. Herr +4

Microresonator based optical frequency combs (MFC) have demonstrated promise in extending the capabilities of optical frequency combs. Here we demonstrate all optical stabilization…