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physics.optics2026

High-power visible laser via injection locking to a photonic integrated circuit optical parametric oscillator

Daniel Pimbi, Zhiquan Yuan, Ashish Chanana +4

Kerr photonic integrated circuit optical parametric oscillators (PIC OPOs) provide a promising platform for coherent visible-light generation, offering broad wavelength accessibili…

physics.optics2026

Bridging high-Q and Kerr-nonlinear photonics using modal phase matching

Jordan R. Stone, Saleha Fatema, Christopher V. Poulton +3

Integrated Kerr microresonators provide on-chip optical nonlinearity for wavelength conversion, optical frequency combs, and quantum light sources. Traditionally, their dispersion…

physics.optics2026

Photogalvanic second harmonic generation in Si3N4 for 1 Hz level on-chip metrology and spectroscopy

Andrei Diakonov, Roy Zektzer, Xiyuan Lu +2

The coherent photogalvanic (PG) effect induces an effective nonlinearity in natively silicon nitride integrated photonics, unlocking pathways toward chip-scale…

physics.optics2026

All-optical Synchronization of Breather Solitons in a Kerr Microresonator

Wang Liao, Stuart G. Murdoch, Stephane Coen +3

Microresonator Kerr solitons are promising candidates for the realization of miniaturized on-chip optical frequency combs. For specific system parameters, these solitons are associ…

physics.optics2026

Broadband Chromatic Dispersion of Thermo-refractive Coefficients and its Impact in Silicon Nitride Nonlinear Photonics

Shao-Chien Ou, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan

The thermo-refractive effect is a cornerstone of frequency and phase tuning in photonic integrated circuits. In particular, it enables control of phase-matching for integrated nonl…

physics.optics2026

Single-Shot Realization of 10000-Mode Octave-Spanning Artificial Gauge Fields

Lida Xu, Apurva Padhye, Supratik Sarkar +6

Artificial gauge fields (AGFs) enable photons and other bosons to emulate fermionic phenomena such as chiral edge transport and quantum Hall phases; however, existing theories and…

physics.optics2026★ 1 cited

Thermally accessible broadband soliton microcombs in silicon carbide enabled by dynamic polarization control

Haoyang Tan, Yi Zheng, Xiyuan Lu +5

Optical microcombs generated in high-Q microresonators are promising chip-scale light sources for applications ranging from optical communications to spectroscopy and metrology. Ho…

physics.optics2026

Dissipative Kerr Soliton Self-Balancing from Kerr-Induced Synchronization

Pradyoth Shandilya, Kartik Srinivasan, Curtis R. Menyuk +1

Integrated frequency comb sources are a key enabling technology for frequency metrology applications. Their on-chip integration promises to bring metrology capacity outside of the…

physics.optics2026

Universal Bright-Bright Integrated Soliton Molecule via Parametric Binding

Pradyoth Shandilya, Shao-Chien Ou, Alioune Niang +4

Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) have emerged as the preferred solution for on-chip integrated optical frequency comb (OFC) generation in metrology. A multi-pumped DKS enables eith…

physics.optics2026

Self-aligned optical microcomb emerging between octave separated lasers

Grégory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Jordan Stone +11

Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are frequency rulers essential for precision metrology, next generation navigation, and testing of fundamental physics. Despite intense efforts, chip…

physics.optics2026

Microring Resonator Dispersion Metrology with Neural Networks

Ergun Simsek, Shao-Chien Ou, Gregory Moille +1

Precise knowledge of resonator dispersion, from both geometric and material contributions, is essential for reliable high-performance nonlinear integrated photonics devices, such a…

physics.optics2025

Quantum Metamorphosis: Programmable Emergence and the Breakdown of Bulk-Edge Dichotomy in Multiscale Systems

Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Alireza Parhizkar, Lida Xu +6

Multiscale synergy -- the interplay of a system's distinct characteristic length, time, and energy scales -- is becoming a unifying thread across many contemporary branches of scie…

physics.optics2025

Toward Chaotic Group Velocity Hopping of an On-Chip Dissipative Kerr Soliton

Gregory Moille, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, Pradyoth Shandilya +3

Chaos enables randomness-based applications, particularly in photonic systems. Integrated optical frequency combs (microcombs) have previously been observed in either chaotic modul…

physics.optics2025

300 mm Wafer-Scale SiN Platform for Broadband Soliton Microcombs Compatible with Alkali Atomic References

Shao-Chien Ou, Alin Antohe, Lewis G. Carpenter +2

Chip-integrated optical frequency combs (OFCs) based on Kerr nonlinear resonators are of great significance given their scalability and wide range of applications. Broadband on-chi…

physics.optics2025★ 9 cited

Multi-timescale frequency-phase matching for high-yield nonlinear photonics

Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Lida Xu, Gregory Moille +9

Integrated nonlinear photonic technologies, even with state-of-the-art fabrication with only a few nanometer geometry variations, face significant challenges in achieving wafer-sca…

physics.optics2025

Full spectral response of grating-induced loss in photonic crystal microrings

Daniel Pimbi, Yi Sun, Roy Zektzer +2

Photonic crystal microrings (PhCRs) have emerged as powerful and versatile platforms for integrated nonlinear photonics, offering precise control over frequency and phase matching…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Parasitic loss in microring-waveguide coupling and its impact on wideband nonlinear photonics

Yi Sun, Daniel Pimbi, Xiyuan Lu +4

Microring resonators enable the enhancement of nonlinear frequency mixing processes, generating output fields at frequencies that widely differ from the inputs, in some cases by mo…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Highly squeezed nanophotonic quantum microcombs with broadband frequency tunability

Yichen Shen, Ping-Yen Hsieh, Dhruv Srinivasan +8

Squeezed light offers genuine quantum advantage in enhanced sensing and quantum computation; yet the level of squeezing or quantum noise reduction generated from nanophotonic chips…

physics.optics2025★ 7 cited

On-chip multi-timescale spatiotemporal optical synchronization

Lida Xu, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Christopher J. Flower +7

Mode-locking mechanisms are key resources in nonlinear optical phenomena, such as micro-ring solitonic states, and have transformed metrology, precision spectroscopy, and optical c…

physics.optics2024

Multi-color solitons and frequency combs in microresonators

Curtis R. Menyuk, Pradyoth Shandilya, Logan Courtright +2

Multi-color solitons that are parametrically created in dual-pumped microresonators generate interleaved frequency combs that can be used to obtain combs at new frequencies and whe…

physics.optics2024★ 7 cited

On-Chip Parametric Synchronization of a Dissipative Kerr Soliton Microcomb

Gregory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Miro Erkintalo +2

Synchronization of oscillators is ubiquitous in nature. Often, the synchronized oscillators couple directly, yet in some cases synchronization can arise from their parametric inter…

physics.optics2024★ 4 cited

All-Optical Azimuthal Trapping of Dissipative Kerr Multi-Solitons for Relative Noise Suppression

Pradyoth Shandilya, Shao-Chien Ou, Jordan Stone +4

Temporal cavity solitons, or dissipative Kerr solitons (DKS) in integrated microresonators, are essential for deployable metrology technologies. Such applications favor the lowest…

physics.optics2024★ 13 cited

All-Optical Noise Quenching of An Integrated Frequency Comb

Gregory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Jordan Stone +2

Integrated frequency combs promise transformation of lab-based metrology into disruptive real-world applications. These microcombs are, however, sensitive to stochastic thermal flu…

physics.optics2024

Terahertz Voltage-controlled Oscillator from a Kerr-Induced Synchronized Soliton Microcomb

Usman A. Javid, Michal Chojnacky, Kartik Srinivasan +1

The generation of controlled and arbitrarily tunable terahertz radiation, essential for many applications, has proven challenging due to the complexity of experimental setups and f…