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most citedIntegrated turnkey soliton microcombs operated at CMOS frequencies

610 citations · 2.7k across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

physics.optics2022★ 15 cited

Flattening laser frequency comb spectra with a high dynamic range, broadband spectral shaper on-a-chip

Nemanja Jovanovic, Pradip Gatkine, Boqiang Shen +9

Spectral shaping is critical to many fields of science. In astronomy for example, the detection of exoplanets via the Doppler effect hinges on the ability to calibrate a high resol…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

An all-photonic, dynamic device for flattening the spectrum of a laser frequency comb for precise calibration of radial velocity measurements

Nemanja Jovanovic, Pradip Gatkine, Boqiang Shen +9

Laser frequency combs are fast becoming critical to reaching the highest radial velocity precisions. One shortcoming is the highly variable brightness of the comb lines across the…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Self-injection-locked second-harmonic integrated source

Jingwei Ling, Jeremy Staffa, Heming Wang +12

High coherence visible and near-visible laser sources are centrally important to the operation of advanced position/navigation/timing systems as well as classical/quantum sensing s…

physics.optics2022★ 170 cited

Integrated Pockels Laser

Mingxiao Li, Lin Chang, Lue Wu +14

The development of integrated semiconductor lasers has miniaturized traditional bulky laser systems, enabling a wide range of photonic applications. A progression from pure III-V b…

physics.optics2021

Extending the spectrum of fully integrated photonics

Minh Tran, Chong Zhang, Theodore Morin +15

Integrated photonics has profoundly impacted a wide range of technologies underpinning modern society. The ability to fabricate a complete optical system on a chip offers unrivalle…

physics.optics2021★ 90 cited

Probing material absorption and optical nonlinearity of integrated photonic materials

Maodong Gao, Qi-Fan Yang, Qing-Xin Ji +12

Optical microresonators with high quality () factors are essential to a wide range of integrated photonic devices. Steady efforts have been directed towards increasing microreso…

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.optics2021★ 22 cited

Self-regulating soliton domain walls in microresonators

Heming Wang, Boqiang Shen, Yan Yu +9

Dissipative soliton Kerr frequency combs in microresonators have recently been demonstrated with the self-injection locking process. They have the advantage of turnkey deterministi…

physics.optics2020

Correlated self-heterodyne method for ultra-low-noise laser linewidth measurements

Zhiquan Yuan, Heming Wang, Peng Liu +9

Narrow-linewidth lasers are important to many applications spanning precision metrology to sensing systems. Characterization of these lasers requires precise measurements of their…

physics.optics2020★ 583 cited

Hertz-linewidth semiconductor lasers using CMOS-ready ultra-high- microresonators

Warren Jin, Qi-Fan Yang, Lin Chang +8

Driven by narrow-linewidth bench-top lasers, coherent optical systems spanning optical communications, metrology and sensing provide unrivalled performance. To transfer these capab…

physics.optics2020★ 60 cited

Quantum diffusion of microcavity solitons

Chengying Bao, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Boqiang Shen +9

Coherently-pumped (Kerr) solitons in an ideal optical microcavity are expected to undergo random quantum motion that determines fundamental performance limits in applications of so…

physics.optics2020★ 12 cited

Forced Oscillatory Motion of Trapped Counter-Propagating Solitons

Chengying Bao, Boqiang Shen, Myoung-Gyun Suh +6

Both the group velocity and phase velocity of two solitons can be synchronized by a Kerr-effect mediated interaction, causing what is known as soliton trapping. Trapping can occur…

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★ 12 cited

Photonic integration of an optical atomic clock

Z. L. Newman, V. Maurice, T. E. Drake +19

Laboratory optical atomic clocks achieve remarkable accuracy (now counted to 18 digits or more), opening possibilities to explore fundamental physics and enable new measurements. H…

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…