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most citedIntegrated turnkey soliton microcombs operated at CMOS frequencies

610 citations · 2.1k across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

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…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Integrated soliton microcombs beyond the turnkey limit

Ze Wang, Tianyu Xu, Yuanlei Wang +10

Soliton microcombs generated in optical microresonators are accelerating the transition of optical frequency combs from laboratory instruments to industrial platforms. Self injecti…

physics.optics2025

Raman-induced dynamics of ultrafast microresonator solitons

Binbin Nie, Yuanlei Wang, Du Qian +6

Soliton microcombs are evolving towards octave-spanning for - self-referencing and expanding applications in spectroscopy and timekeeping. As spectra broaden and pulses shor…

physics.optics2025

Electrically-pumped soliton microcombs on thin-film lithium niobate

Xiaomin Lv, Ze Wang, Tianyu Xu +10

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has enabled efficient on-chip electro-optic modulation and frequency conversion for information processing and precision measurement. Extending the…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Power-efficient ultra-broadband soliton microcombs in resonantly-coupled microresonators

Kaixuan Zhu, Xinrui Luo, Yuanlei Wang +18

The drive to miniaturize optical frequency combs for practical deployment has spotlighted microresonator solitons as a promising chip-scale candidate. However, these soliton microc…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Compact Turnkey Soliton Microcombs at Microwave Rates via Wafer-Scale Fabrication

Yuanlei Wang, Ze Wang, Chenghao Lao +19

Soliton microcombs generated in nonlinear microresonators facilitate the photonic integration of timing, frequency synthesis, and astronomical calibration functionalities. For thes…

physics.optics2025★ 15 cited

Soliton microcombs in X-cut LiNbO3 microresonators

Binbin Nie, Xiaomin Lv, Chen Yang +15

Chip-scale integration of optical frequency combs, particularly soliton microcombs, enables miniaturized instrumentation for timekeeping, ranging, and spectroscopy. Although solito…

physics.optics2024★ 25 cited

Toward ultimate-efficiency frequency conversion in nonlinear optical microresonators

Zhi-Yan Wang, Xiao Wu, Xiao Xiong +7

Integrated nonlinear photonics has emerged as a transformative platform, enabling nanoscale nonlinear optical processes with significant implications for sensing, computation, and…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Large-scale cluster quantum microcombs

Ze Wang, Kangkang Li, Yue Wang +11

An optical frequency comb comprises a cluster of equally spaced, phase-locked spectral lines. Replacing these classical components with correlated quantum light gives rise to clust…

physics.optics2024

Broadband microwave-rate dark pulse microcombs in dissipation-engineered LiNbO microresonators

Xiaomin Lv, Binbin Nie, Chen Yang +12

Kerr microcombs generated in optical microresonators provide broadband light sources bridging optical and microwave signals. Their translation to thin-film lithium niobate unlocks…

physics.optics2024★ 11 cited

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.optics2023★ 2 cited

High-efficiency edge couplers enabled by vertically tapering on lithium-niobate photonic chips

Di Jia, Qiang Luo, Chen Yang +7

In the past decade, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) have advanced in various fields, including optical communication, nonlinear photon…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Integrated vortex soliton microcombs

Yanwu Liu, Chenghao Lao, Min Wang +9

The frequency and orbital angular momentum (OAM) are independent physical properties of light that both offer unbounded degrees of freedom. However, creating, processing, and detec…

physics.optics2021★ 226 cited

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…

physics.optics2019★ 610 cited

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★ 350 cited

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.optics2018★ 44 cited

A self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb

Yang HE, Qi-Fan Yang, Jingwei Ling +7

For its many useful properties, including second and third-order optical nonlinearity as well as electro-optic control, lithium niobate is considered an important potential microco…

physics.optics2018★ 173 cited

Vernier spectrometer using counter-propagating soliton microcombs

Qi-Fan Yang, Boqiang Shen, Heming Wang +8

Acquisition of laser frequency with high resolution under continuous and abrupt tuning conditions is important for sensing, spectroscopy and communications. Here, a single microres…

physics.optics2018★ 111 cited

Imaging soliton dynamics in optical microcavities

Xu Yi, Qi-Fan Yang, Ki Youl Yang +1

Solitons are self-sustained wavepackets that occur in many physical systems. Their recent demonstration in optical microresonators has provided a new platform for study of nonlinea…

physics.optics2017★ 2 cited

Counter-propagating solitons in microresonators

Qi-Fan Yang, Xu Yi, Ki Youl Yang +1

Solitons occur in many physical systems when a nonlinearity compensates wave dispersion. Their recent formation in microresonators opens a new research direction for nonlinear opti…

physics.optics2017★ 118 cited

Towards visible soliton microcomb generation

Seung Hoon Lee, Dong Yoon Oh, Qi-Fan Yang +7

Frequency combs have applications that extend from the ultra-violet into the mid-infrared bands. Microcombs, a miniature and often semiconductor-chip-based device, can potentially…

physics.optics2017★ 200 cited

Bridging ultra-high-Q devices and photonic circuits

Ki Youl Yang, Dong Yoon Oh, Seung Hoon Lee +3

Optical microcavities are essential in numerous technologies and scientific disciplines. However, their application in many areas relies exclusively upon discrete microcavities in…

physics.optics2016★ 234 cited

Stokes Soliton in Optical Microcavities

Qi-Fan Yang, Xu Yi, Ki Youl Yang +1

Solitons are wavepackets that resist dispersion through a self-induced potential well. They are studied in many fields, but are especially well known in optics on account of the re…