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most citedIntegrated turnkey soliton microcombs operated at CMOS frequencies

610 citations · 2.3k across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Multicolor interband solitons in microcombs

Qing-Xin Ji, Hanfei Hou, Jinhao Ge +10

In microcombs, solitons can drive non-soliton-forming modes to induce optical gain. Under specific conditions, a regenerative secondary temporal pulse coinciding in time and space…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Photonic Millimeter-wave Generation Beyond the Cavity Thermal Limit

William Groman, Igor Kudelin, Alexander Lind +11

Next-generation communications, radar and navigation systems will extend and exploit the higher bandwidth of the millimeter-wave domain for increased communication data rates as we…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Dispersive-wave-agile optical frequency division

Qing-Xin Ji, Wei Zhang, Peng Liu +10

The remarkable frequency stability of resonant systems in the optical domain (optical cavities and atomic transitions) can be harnessed at frequency scales accessible by electronic…

physics.optics2023★ 9 cited

Photonic chip-based low noise microwave oscillator

Igor Kudelin, William Groman, Qing-Xin Ji +26

Numerous modern technologies are reliant on the low-phase noise and exquisite timing stability of microwave signals. Substantial progress has been made in the field of microwave ph…

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★ 8 cited

OH absorption in on-chip high-Q resonators

Lue Wu, Maodong Gao, Jin-Yu Liu +4

Thermal silica is a common dielectric used in all silicon-photonic circuits. And bound hydroxyl ions (Si-OH) can provide a significant component of optical loss in this material on…

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.app-ph2023★ 2 cited

Three-dimensional integration enables ultra-low-noise, isolator-free Si photonics

Chao Xiang, Warren Jin, Osama Terra +12

While photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are being widely used in applications such as telecommunications and datacenter interconnects, PICs capable of replacing bulk optics and f…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Soliton generation in AlGaAs microresonators at room temperature

Lue Wu, Weiqiang Xie, Chao Xiang +7

Chip-integrated optical frequency combs are attractive optical sources in comb applications requiring high-repetition-rate, low power consumption, or compact size. Spontaneous soli…

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★ 170 cited

Integrated Pockels Laser

Mingxiao Li, Lin Chang, Lue Wu +14

The development of integrated semiconductor lasers has miniaturized traditional bulky laser systems, enabling a wide range of photonic applications. A progression from pure III-V b…

physics.optics2022

Chip-Based Laser with 1 Hertz Integrated Linewidth

Joel Guo, Charles A. McLemore, Chao Xiang +14

Lasers with hertz-level linewidths on timescales up to seconds are critical for precision metrology, timekeeping, and manipulation of quantum systems. Such frequency stability typi…

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★ 90 cited

Probing material absorption and optical nonlinearity of integrated photonic materials

Maodong Gao, Qi-Fan Yang, Qing-Xin Ji +12

Optical microresonators with high quality () factors are essential to a wide range of integrated photonic devices. Steady efforts have been directed towards increasing microreso…

physics.optics2021★ 226 cited

High-performance lasers for fully integrated silicon nitride photonics

Chao Xiang, Joel Guo, Warren Jin +12

Silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides with ultra-low optical loss enable integrated photonic applications including low noise, narrow linewidth lasers, chip-scale nonlinear photonics, a…

physics.optics2020★ 583 cited

Hertz-linewidth semiconductor lasers using CMOS-ready ultra-high- microresonators

Warren Jin, Qi-Fan Yang, Lin Chang +8

Driven by narrow-linewidth bench-top lasers, coherent optical systems spanning optical communications, metrology and sensing provide unrivalled performance. To transfer these capab…

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.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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 110 cited

Phononic band structure engineering for high-Q gigahertz surface acoustic wave resonators on lithium niobate

Linbo Shao, Smarak Maity, Lu Zheng +9

Phonons at gigahertz frequencies interact with electrons, photons, and atomic systems in solids, and therefore have extensive applications in signal processing, sensing, and quantu…

physics.optics2018★ 173 cited

Vernier spectrometer using counter-propagating soliton microcombs

Qi-Fan Yang, Boqiang Shen, Heming Wang +8

Acquisition of laser frequency with high resolution under continuous and abrupt tuning conditions is important for sensing, spectroscopy and communications. Here, a single microres…

quant-ph2018★ 287 cited

Strain engineering of the silicon-vacancy center in diamond

Srujan Meesala, Young-Ik Sohn, Benjamin Pingault +16

We control the electronic structure of the silicon-vacancy (SiV) color-center in diamond by changing its static strain environment with a nano-electro-mechanical system. This allow…