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20192025
most citedIntegrated turnkey soliton microcombs operated at CMOS frequencies

610 citations · 3.1k across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.optics2025★ 18 cited

A chip-based optoelectronic-oscillator frequency comb

Jinbao Long, Zhongkai Wang, Huanfa Peng +14

Microresonator-based Kerr frequency combs ("Kerr microcombs") constitute chip-scale frequency combs of broad spectral bandwidth and repetition rate ranging from gigahertz to terahe…

physics.optics2024

Vector spectrometer with Hertz-level resolution and super-recognition capability

Ting Qing, Shupeng Li, Huashan Yang +9

High-resolution optical spectrometers are crucial in revealing intricate characteristics of signals, determining laser frequencies, measuring physical constants, identifying substa…

physics.optics2023

Microresonator soliton frequency combs via cascaded Brillouin scattering

Hao Zhang, Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi +7

We demonstrate Kerr soliton frequency comb generation that is seeded by a cascaded Brillouin scattering process. In this process, a pump laser is used to generate multiple orders o…

physics.optics2023★ 113 cited

Foundry manufacturing of tight-confinement, dispersion-engineered, ultralow-loss silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit

Zhichao Ye, Haiyan Jia, Zhangjun Huang +9

The foundry development of integrated photonics has revolutionized today's optical interconnect and datacenters. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the rising of silicon nitri…

physics.optics2022★ 391 cited

A photonic integrated circuit based erbium-doped amplifier

Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji +7

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers have revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser technology. Erbium ions could equally provide a basis for efficient optical amplificati…

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★ 4 cited

Compact, spatial-mode-interaction-free, ultralow-loss, nonlinear photonic integrated circuits

Xinru Ji, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He +4

Nonlinear photonics based on integrated circuits has enabled applications such as parametric amplifiers, soliton frequency combs, supercontinua, and non-reciprocal devices. Ultralo…

physics.optics2021★ 136 cited

Photonic chip-based continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Johann Riemensberger, Junqiu Liu, Nikolai Kuznetsov +3

The ability to amplify optical signals is of pivotal importance across science and technology. The development of optical amplifiers has revolutionized optical communications, whic…

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★ 189 cited

Magnetic-Free Silicon Nitride Integrated Optical Isolator

Hao Tian, Junqiu Liu, Anat Siddharth +5

Integrated photonics has enabled signal synthesis, modulation and conversion using photonic integrated circuits (PIC). Many materials have been developed, among which silicon nitri…

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.optics2020★ 39 cited

Low-loss integrated nanophotonic circuits with layered semiconductor materials

Tianyi Liu, Ioannis Paradisanos, Jijun He +13

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides with direct bandgaps are emerging candidates for microelectronics, nano-photonics, and optoelectronics. Transferred onto photonic integra…

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★ 414 cited

High-yield wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss, dispersion-engineered silicon nitride photonic circuits

Junqiu Liu, Guanhao Huang, Rui Ning Wang +5

Low-loss photonic integrated circuits (PIC) and microresonators have enabled novel applications ranging from narrow-linewidth lasers, microwave photonics, to chip-scale optical fre…

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.optics2020★ 100 cited

Reconfigurable radiofrequency filters based on versatile soliton microcombs

Jianqi Hu, Jijun He, Junqiu Liu +5

The rapidly maturing integrated Kerr microcombs show significant potential for microwave photonics. Yet, state-of-the-art microcomb based radiofrequency (RF) filters have required…

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★ 138 cited

Observation of stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon nitride integrated waveguides

Flavien Gyger, Junqiu Liu, Fan Yang +6

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) has emerged as a promising material for integrated nonlinear photonics and has been used for broadband soliton microcombs and low-pulse-energy supercontinuu…

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★ 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…