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20182026
most citedSpatiotemporal mode-locking and photonic flywheel in multimode microresonators

57 citations · 98 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.optics2026

Dissipative quadratic soliton mode-locked optical parametric oscillator

Jonathan Musgrave, Mingming Nie, Shu-Wei Huang

Femtosecond mode-locked lasers are foundational to ultrafast science, yet their spectral reach remains constrained by the finite emission bandwidth of available gain media. Optical…

physics.optics2025

Dissipative quadratic soliton mode-locking of nonlinear frequency conversion

Jonathan Musgrave, Mingming Nie, Shu-Wei Huang

Nonlinear frequency conversion underpins numerous classical and quantum photonics applications but conventionally relies on synchronized femtosecond mode-locked lasers and dispersi…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Cross-polarized stimulated Brillouin scattering empowered photonics

Mingming Nie, Jonathan Musgrave, Shu-Wei Huang

This paper explores the integration of cross-polarized stimulated Brillouin scattering (XP-SBS) with Kerr and quadratic nonlinearities in lithium niobate (LN) to enhance photonic d…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Inverse-designed broadband low-loss grating coupler on thick lithium-niobate-on-insulator platform

Yijun Xie, Mingming Nie, Shu-Wei Huang

A grating coupler on 700-nm-thick Z-cut lithium-niobate-on-insulator platform with high coupling efficiency, large bandwidth, and high fabrication tolerance is designed and optimiz…

physics.optics2022

Photonic frequency microcombs based on dissipative Kerr and quadratic cavity solitons

Mingming Nie, Yijun Xie, Bowen Li +1

Optical frequency comb, with precisely controlled spectral lines spanning a broad range, has been the key enabling technology for many scientific breakthroughs. In addition to the…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Noise-squeezed forward Brillouin lasers in multimode fiber microresonators

Mingming Nie, Kunpeng Jia, Shining Zhu +2

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in low-power and compact microresonators has created a new field in cavity nonlinear photonics due to the marriage between acoustic and optica…

physics.optics2022

Turnkey photonic flywheel in a Chimera cavity

Mingming Nie, Kunpeng Jia, Jan Bartos +3

Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) microcomb has emerged as an enabling technology that revolutionizes a wide range of applications in both basic science and technological innovation.…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Dissipative soliton generation and real-time dynamics in microresonator-filtered fiber lasers

Mingming Nie, Bowen Li, Kunpeng Jia +5

Optical frequency combs in microresonators (microcombs) have a wide range of applications in science and technology, due to its compact size and access to considerably larger comb…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Direct soliton generation in cw-pumped doubly resonant degenerate optical parametric oscillators

Mingming Nie, Shu-Wei Huang

We analytically and numerically study the direct soliton generation in a cw-pumped doubly resonant degenerate optical parametric oscillator via pump frequency scanning. By means of…

physics.optics2022★ 57 cited

Spatiotemporal mode-locking and photonic flywheel in multimode microresonators

Mingming Nie, Kunpeng Jia, Yijun Xie +3

Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) frequency combs - also known as microcombs - have arguably created a new field in cavity nonlinear photonics, with a strong cross-fertilization betwe…

physics.optics2020★ 1 cited

Deterministic generation of parametrically driven dissipative Kerr soliton

Mingming Nie, Shu-Wei Huang

We theoretically study the nature of parametrically driven dissipative Kerr soliton (PD-DKS) in a doubly resonant degenerate micro-optical parametric oscillator (DR-DμOPO) with the…

physics.optics2020★ 27 cited

Quadratic soliton mode-locked degenerate optical parametric oscillator

Mingming Nie, Shu-Wei Huang

By identifying the similarities between the coupled-wave equations and the parametrically driven nonlinear Schrödinger equation, we unveil the existence condition of the quadratic…

physics.optics2019

Solid-state Mamyshev oscillator

Mingming Nie, Jiarong Wang, Shu-Wei Huang

We present the first design and analysis of a solid-state Mamyshev oscillator. We utilize the phase-mismatched cascaded quadratic nonlinear process in periodically poled lithium ni…

physics.optics2019★ 6 cited

Short pulse close to round-trip time generated by cavityless high gain Nd:GdVO4 bounce geometry

Rui Guo, Mingming Nie, Qiang Liu +1

In this paper, laser pulses with pulse-widths approach to the round-trip time are generated by utilizing a cavityless high gain Nd:GdVO4 bounce geometry. By adopting an EOQ (electr…

physics.optics2018

Watt-level, kHz pulsed ASE source with pulse-width close to round-trip time based on Nd:GdVO4 bounce geometry

Rui Guo, Mingming Nie, Mali Gong

We demonstrate a watt-level, kHz nanosecond-pulse ASE source with its pulse-width being close to its round-trip time. The ASE uses a Nd:GdVO4 high gain bounce geometry structure wi…