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Nanophotonic dispersion engineering in tantala-based microresonators with ultralow-loss claddings
Alexa R. Carollo, Atasi Dan, Jizhao Zang +3
Integrated photonics optimized to leverage low loss, nonlinear-optical processes and optoelectronic integration requires robust optical cladding materials and associated fabricatio…
Photonic-Crystal Microresonator Frequency Combs in the O-band
Sarang Yeola, Alexa R. Carollo, Jizhao Zang +1
Photonic-crystal microresonators (PhCRs) are a powerful platform for generating Kerr frequency combs. Because Kerr-soliton dynamics in PhCRs are largely decoupled from the operatin…
Induced Directional Switching of Platicon Microcombs in Photonic Crystal Ring Resonators
Erwan Lucas, Su-Peng Yu, Jizhao Zang +1
Microcombs in normal-dispersion photonic crystal ring resonators (PhCRs) are versatile building blocks for next-generation integrated photonic circuits, but their inherent backward…
Nanophotonic control of collective many-body states in Kerr solitons
Yan Jin, Jizhao Zang, Sarang Yeola +3
Spatially periodic systems of coupled bosons are governed by on-site interactions and tunneling between sites, opening a rich phase space of many-body behavior. Here, we explore na…
Monolithic 3D integration of tantalum pentoxide photonics on arbitrary substrates
Grant M. Brodnik, Grisha Spektor, Lindell M. Williams +6
The photonics landscape encompasses a wide scope of material platforms, each optimized for specific functionalities, yet no platform meets the demands of all current and evolving p…
Next-generation soliton frequency combs in photonic-crystal and nanocomposite microresonators
Haixin Liu, Alexa Carollo, Jizhao Zang +1
Microresonator frequency combs offer tremendous opportunity to advance applications in fundamental research and technology by linking the optical and microwave frequency domains. K…
A Kerr soliton Ising machine for combinatorial optimization problems
Yan Jin, Nitesh Chauhan, Jizhao Zang +4
The growing challenges of scaling digital computing motivate new approaches, especially through the dynamical evolution of physical systems that mimic neural networks and combinato…
Universal electronic synthesis by microresonator-soliton photomixing
Jizhao Zang, Travis C. Briles, Jesse S. Morgan +2
Access to electrical signals across the millimeter-wave (mmW) and terahertz (THz) bands offers breakthroughs for high-performance applications. Despite generations of revolutionary…
Implementing photonic-crystal resonator frequency combs in a photonics foundry
Haixin Liu, Ivan Dickson, Alin Antohe +6
We explore an AIM Photonics silicon-nitride platform to fabricate photonic-crystal resonators for generating optical parametric oscillators (OPO) and soliton microcombs. Our approa…
Broadband Optoelectronic Mixer for Terahertz Frequency-Comb Measurements
Jizhao Zang, Jesse S. Morgan, Andreas Beling +1
We demonstrate ultra-broadband optoelectronic mixing of frequency combs that provides phase-coherent detection of a repetition frequency up to 500 GHz, using a high-speed modified…
2.4-THz Bandwidth Optical Coherent Receiver Based on a Photonic Crystal Microcomb
Callum Deakin, Jizhao Zang, Xi Chen +5
We demonstrate a spectrally-sliced single-polarization optical coherent receiver with a record 2.4-THz bandwidth, using a 200-GHz tantalum pentoxide photonic crystal microring reso…
Foundry manufacturing of octave-spanning microcombs
Jizhao Zang, Haixin Liu, Travis C. Briles +1
Soliton microcombs provide a chip-based, octave-spanning source for self-referencing and optical metrology. We explore use of a silicon-nitride integrated photonics foundry to manu…
The bandgap-detuned excitation regime in photonic-crystal resonators
Yan Jin, Erwan Lucas, Jizhao Zang +4
Control of nonlinear interactions in microresonators enhances access to classical and quantum field states across nearly limitless bandwidth. A recent innovation has been to levera…
Laser-power consumption of soliton formation in a bidirectional Kerr resonator
Jizhao Zang, Su-Peng Yu, Haixin Liu +4
Laser sources power extreme data transmission as well as computing acceleration, access to ultrahigh-speed signaling, and sensing for chemicals, distance, and pattern recognition.…
Threshold and laser-conversion in nanostructured-resonator parametric oscillators
Haixin Liu, Grant M. Brodnik, Jizhao Zang +3
We explore optical parametric oscillation (OPO) in nanophotonic resonators, enabling arbitrary, nonlinear phase-matching and nearly lossless control of energy conversion. Such pris…
Tunable lasers with optical-parametric oscillation in photonic-crystal resonators
Jennifer A. Black, Grant Brodnik, Haixin Liu +5
By design access to laser wavelength, especially with integrated photonics, is critical to advance quantum sensors like optical clocks and quantum-information systems, and open opp…
A continuum of bright and dark pulse states in a photonic-crystal resonator
Su-Peng Yu, Erwan Lucas, Jizhao Zang +1
Nonlinearity is a powerful determinant of physical systems. Controlling nonlinearity leads to interesting states of matter and new applications. In optics, diverse families of cont…
Optimizing the linearity in high-speed photodiodes
J. Davila-Rodriguez, X. Xie, J. Zang +7
Analog photonic links require high-fidelity, high-speed optical-to-electrical conversion for applications such as radio-over-fiber, synchronization at kilometer-scale facilities, a…