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most citedMassively parallel coherent laser ranging using soliton microcombs

739 citations · 2.2k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.optics2025

Laser transfer and retrieval via nanophotonic supercontinuum process

Yongyuan Chu, Lu Yang, Wenle Weng +2

The nature of optical metrology is to perform efficient transfer and precise retrieval for lasers and optical signals, which is beneficial for a variety of applications ranging fro…

physics.optics2022★ 4 cited

Photo-induced cascaded harmonic and comb generation in silicon nitride microresonators

Jianqi Hu, Edgars Nitiss, Jijun He +5

Silicon nitride (SiN) is an ever-maturing integrated platform for nonlinear optics. Yet, due to the absence of second-order () nonlinearity, SiN is mostly…

physics.optics2021★ 7 cited

Coherent terahertz-to-microwave link using electro-optic-modulated Turing rolls

Wenle Weng, Miles H. Anderson, Anat Siddharth +3

Arising from modulation instability, Turing rolls in optical Kerr microresonators have been used in the generation of optical frequency combs and the synthesis of microwave and ter…

physics.optics2021

Ultralow-noise frequency-agile photonic integrated lasers

Grigory Lihachev, Johann Riemensberger, Wenle Weng +8

Low-noise lasers are of central importance in a wide variety of applications, including high spectral-efficiency coherent communication protocols, distributed fibre sensing, and lo…

physics.optics2021★ 352 cited

Laser soliton microcombs on silicon

Chao Xiang, Junqiu Liu, Joel Guo +10

Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. A silicon-based laser frequency combs could significantly expand the applications of silicon p…

physics.optics2021★ 126 cited

Platicon microcomb generation using laser self-injection locking

Grigory Lihachev, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng +7

The past decade has witnessed major advances in the development of microresonator-based frequency combs (microcombs) that are broadband optical frequency combs with repetition rate…

physics.optics2020★ 3 cited

Zero-dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Miles H. Anderson, Grigory Lihachev, Wenle Weng +2

Solitons are shape preserving waveforms that are ubiquitous across nonlinear dynamical systems and fall into two separate classes, that of bright solitons, formed in the anomalous…

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.optics2019★ 10 cited

Photonic chip-based resonant supercontinuum

Miles H. Anderson, Romain Bouchand, Junqiu Liu +4

Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers is one of the most dramatic nonlinear effects discovered, allowing short pulses to be converted into multi-octave spanning coherent spec…

physics.optics2019★ 91 cited

Nanophotonic supercontinuum based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy

Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng, Junqiu Liu +6

High resolution and fast detection of molecular vibrational absorption is important for organic synthesis, pharmaceutical process and environmental monitoring, and is enabled by mi…

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★ 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.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.optics2017★ 334 cited

Mid-infrared frequency comb generation with silicon nitride nano-photonic waveguides

Clemens Herkommer, Adrien Billat, Hairun Guo +5

Mid-infrared optical frequency combs are of significant interest for molecular spectroscopy due to the large absorption of molecular vibrational modes on one hand, and the ability…

physics.optics2014★ 78 cited

Nano-Kelvin thermometry and temperature control: beyond the thermal noise limit

Wenle Weng, James D. Anstie, Thomas M. Stace +3

We demonstrate thermometry with a resolution of 80 using an isotropic crystalline whispering-gallery mode resonator based on a dichroic dual-mode…