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20192026
most citedEnhanced sensitivity operation of an optical gyroscope near an exceptional point

469 citations · 796 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.optics2026

Direct growth of crack-free stoichiometric silicon nitride on sapphire for wide-band photonics

Zhaohui Ma, Ashish Chanana, Zhiquan Yuan +5

Low-loss stoichiometric silicon nitride on oxidized silicon has emerged as the major wide-band photonics platform for nonlinear and quantum photonics. These films, deposited by low…

physics.optics2025

Efficient and wavelength-tunable second-harmonic generation towards the green gap

Zhiquan Yuan, Jinhao Ge, Peng Liu +7

Achieving compact and efficient visible laser sources is crucial for a wide range of applications. However traditional semiconductor laser technology faces difficulties in producin…

physics.optics2023★ 5 cited

High-coherence hybrid-integrated 780 nm source by self-injection-locked second-harmonic generation in a high-Q silicon-nitride resonator

Bohan Li, Zhiquan Yuan, Warren Jin +7

By self-injection-locking a 1560 nm distributed feedback semiconductor laser to a high- silicon nitride resonator, a high-coherence 780 nm second harmonic signal is generated vi…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Soliton pulse pairs at multiple colors in normal dispersion microresonators

Zhiquan Yuan, Maodong Gao, Yan Yu +7

Soliton microcombs are helping to advance the miniaturization of a range of comb systems. These combs mode lock through the formation of short temporal pulses in anomalous dispersi…

physics.optics2023

Engineered zero-dispersion microcombs using CMOS-ready photonics

Qing-Xin Ji, Warren Jin, Lue Wu +14

Normal group velocity dispersion (GVD) microcombs offer high comb line power and high pumping efficiency compared to bright pulse microcombs. The recent demonstration of normal GVD…

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

Brillouin Backaction Thermometry for Modal Temperature Control

Yu-Hung Lai, Zhiquan Yuan, Myoung-Gyun Suh +3

Stimulated Brillouin scattering provides optical gain for efficient and narrow-linewidth lasers in high-Q microresonator systems. However, the thermal dependence of the Brillouin p…

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★ 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★ 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.ins-det2019★ 233 cited

Petermann-factor limited sensing near an exceptional point

Heming Wang, Yu-Hung Lai, Zhiquan Yuan +2

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians describing open systems can feature singularities called exceptional points (EPs). Resonant frequencies become strongly dependent on externally applied p…

physics.optics2019★ 469 cited

Enhanced sensitivity operation of an optical gyroscope near an exceptional point

Yu-Hung Lai, Yu-Kun Lu, Myoung-Gyun Suh +1

Exceptional points (EPs) are special spectral degeneracies of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians governing the dynamics of open systems. At the EP two or more eigenvalues and the correspon…