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most citedUniversal dynamics and controlled switching of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

513 citations · 2.7k across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

physics.optics2025★ 9 cited

High-pulse-energy integrated mode-locked lasers based on a Mamyshev oscillator

Zheru Qiu, Jianqi Hu, Xuan Yang +9

Ultrafast lasers have unlocked numerous advances across science and technology: they enable corneal surgery, reveal chemical reaction dynamics, and underpin optical atomic clocks.…

physics.optics2025★ 12 cited

Copper-impurity-free photonic integrated circuits enable deterministic soliton microcombs

Xinru Ji, Xurong Li, Zheru Qiu +5

Chip-scale optical frequency combs based on microresonators (microcombs) enable GHz-THz repetition rates, broad bandwidth, compactness, and compatibility with wafer-scale manufactu…

physics.optics2025★ 14 cited

Arrayed waveguide gratings in lithium tantalate integrated photonics

Shivaprasad U. Hulyal, Jianqi Hu, Chengli Wang +3

Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWGs) are widely used photonic components for splitting and combining different wavelengths of light. They play a key role in wavelength division multip…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Full C- and L-band tunable erbium-doped integrated lasers via scalable manufacturing

Xinru Ji, Xuan Yang, Yang Liu +8

Erbium (Er) ions are the gain medium of choice for fiber-based amplifiers and lasers, offering a long excited-state lifetime, slow gain relaxation, low amplification nonlinearity a…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation (OAWG) Using Actively Phase-Stabilized Spectral Stitching

Daniel Drayss, Dengyang Fang, Alban Sherifaj +10

The conventional way of generating optical waveforms relies on the in-phase and quadrature (IQ) modulation of a continuous wave (CW) laser tone. In this case, the bandwidth of the…

physics.optics2024★ 70 cited

Integrated Triply Resonant Electro-Optic Frequency Comb in Lithium Tantalate

Junyin Zhang, Chengli Wang, Connor Denney +11

Integrated frequency comb generators based on Kerr parametric oscillation have led to chip-scale, gigahertz-spaced combs with new applications spanning hyperscale telecommunication…

physics.optics2024★ 46 cited

Piezoelectric actuation for integrated photonics

Hao Tian, Junqiu Liu, Alaina Attanasio +14

Recent decades have seen significant advancements in integrated photonics, driven by improvements in nanofabrication technology. This field has developed from integrated semiconduc…

physics.optics2023★ 13 cited

Fundamental charge noise in electro-optic photonic integrated circuits

Junyin Zhang, Zihan Li, Johann Riemensberger +3

Understanding thermodynamical measurement noise is of central importance for electrical and optical precision measurements from mass-fabricated semiconductor sensors, where the Bro…

physics.optics2023★ 235 cited

Lithium tantalate electro-optical photonic integrated circuits for high volume manufacturing

Chengli Wang, Zihan Li, Johann Riemensberger +11

Photonic integrated circuits based on Lithium Niobate have demonstrated the vast capabilities afforded by material with a high Pockels coefficient, allowing linear and high-speed m…

physics.optics2023★ 52 cited

Hertz-linewidth and frequency-agile photonic integrated extended-DBR lasers

Anat Siddharth, Alaina Attanasio, Grigory Lihachev +7

Recent advances in the development of ultra-low loss silicon nitride (Si3N4)-based photonic integrated circuits have allowed integrated lasers to achieve a coherence exceeding thos…

physics.app-ph2023★ 1 cited

Photonic-electronic integrated circuit-based coherent LiDAR engine

Anton Lukashchuk, Halil Kerim Yildirim, Andrea Bancora +8

Microelectronic integration is a key enabler for the ubiquitous deployment of devices in large volumes ranging from MEMS and imaging sensors to consumer electronics. Such integrati…

physics.optics2023★ 8 cited

A fully hybrid integrated Erbium-based laser

Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji +6

Erbium-doped fiber lasers exhibit high coherence and low noise as required for applications in fiber optic sensing, gyroscopes, LiDAR, and optical frequency metrology. Endowing Erb…

physics.optics2023★ 6 cited

Frequency agile photonic integrated external cavity laser

Grigory Lihachev, Andrea Bancora, Viacheslav Snigirev +10

Recent advances in the development of ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonic circuits have heralded a new generation of integrated lasers capable of reaching fiber lase…

physics.optics2021★ 5 cited

Near ultraviolet photonic integrated lasers based on silicon nitride

Anat Siddharth, Thomas Wunderer, Grigory Lihachev +10

Low phase noise lasers based on the combination of III-V semiconductors and silicon photonics are well established in the near-infrared spectral regime. Recent advances in the deve…

physics.optics2021

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

Viacheslav Snigirev, Annina Riedhauser, Grigory Lihachev +13

Recent advances in the processing of thin-film LNOI have enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits, modulators with improved half-wave voltage, electro-optic frequency combs an…

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★ 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.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.optics2019★ 193 cited

Dynamics of soliton self-injection locking in a photonic chip-based microresonator

Andrey S. Voloshin, Nikita M. Kondratiev, Grigory V. Lihachev +6

Soliton microcombs constitute chip-scale optical frequency combs, and have the potential to impact a myriad of applications from frequency synthesis and telecommunications to astro…

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.optics2018★ 203 cited

Narrow linewidth lasing and soliton Kerr-microcombs with ordinary laser diodes

N. G. Pavlov, S. Koptyaev, G. V. Lihachev +3

Narrow linewidth lasers and optical frequency combs generated with mode-locked lasers revolutionized optical frequency metrology. The advent of soliton Kerr frequency combs in comp…

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…

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★ 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…