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most citedSideband Injection Locking in Microresonator Frequency Combs

44 citations · 86 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.optics2026

Asynchronous Terahertz-field sampling with soliton microcombs

Alexandra Sakharova, Alexander E. Ulanov, Konstantin Wenzel +6

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy records the electric field of terahertz transients and underpins applications from materials science to non-destructive testing. Asynchronous opt…

physics.optics2026

Bright solitons in hybrid-dispersion photonic crystal microresonators

Alexander E. Ulanov, Lukas Bengel, Bastian Ruhnke +2

Bright dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators provide chip-scale sources of ultrashort pulses and frequency combs. Their properties are defined by the cavity dispersi…

physics.optics2026

Photonic-crystal microresonator-based LiDAR engine

Kenji Nishimoto, Alexander E. Ulanov, Thibault Wildi +1

Self-injection-locked (SIL) narrow-linewidth lasers based on high-Q microresonators are promising sources for frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LiDAR, but the SIL mechanis…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Attosecond-level synchronisation of chip-integrated oscillators

Alexander E. Ulanov, Bastian Ruhnke, Theia El Sharkawy +4

Synchronised laser oscillators are essential for probing the fastest processes in chemistry, materials science, and biology down to atto-second timescales. Tight synchronisation is…

physics.optics2025

Quadrature squeezing in a nanophotonic microresonator

Alexander E. Ulanov, Bastian Ruhnke, Thibault Wildi +1

Squeezed states of light are essential for emerging quantum technology in metrology and information processing. Chip-integrated photonics offers a route to scalable and efficient s…

physics.optics2024★ 8 cited

Laser diode self-injection locking to an integrated high-Q Fabry-Perot microresonator

Alexander E. Ulanov, Thibault Wildi, Utkarsh Bhatnagar +1

Self-injection locking (SIL) of laser diodes to microresonators is a powerful technique that enables compact narrow linewidth lasers. Here, we extend this technique to chip-integra…

physics.optics2024★ 32 cited

Phase-stabilised self-injection-locked microcomb

Thibault Wildi, Alexander E. Ulanov, Thibault Voumard +2

Microresonator frequency combs (microcombs) hold great potential for precision metrology within a compact form factor, impacting a wide range of applications such as point-of-care…

physics.optics2023★ 44 cited

Sideband Injection Locking in Microresonator Frequency Combs

Thibault Wildi, Alexander Ulanov, Nicolas Englebert +2

Frequency combs from continuous-wave-driven Kerr-nonlinear microresonators have evolved into a key photonic technology with applications from optical communication to precision spe…