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20202026
most citedSynthetic-reflection self-injection-locked microcombs

76 citations · 489 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Test of a 34 GHz EOM laser frequency comb at ESPRESSO

Tobias M. Schmidt, Ewelina Obrzud, François Bouchy +18

Laser frequency combs (LFCs) are a promising technology for wavelength calibration of astronomical high-resolution spectrographs requiring utmost accuracy and stability, since they…

physics.optics2025

Breaking the bandwidth-efficiency trade-off in soliton microcombs via mode coupling

Yang Liu, Andreas Jacobsen, Thibault Wildi +9

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators have emerged as a powerful tool for compact and coherent frequency comb generation. Advances in nanofabrication have allowed pr…

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★ 1 cited

Spectral dynamics in broadband frequency combs with overlapping harmonics

Weichen Fan, Furkan Ayhan, Thibault Wildi +8

Optical frequency combs and their spectra of evenly spaced discrete laser lines are essential to modern time and frequency metrology. Recent advances in integrated photonic wavegui…

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★ 14 cited

Supercontinua from integrated gallium nitride waveguides

Weichen Fan, Markus Ludwig, Ian Rousseau +4

Supercontinua are broadband spectra that are essential to optical spectroscopy, sensing, imaging, and metrology. They are generated from ultrashort laser pulses through nonlinear f…

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★ 36 cited

Femtosecond pulse amplification on a chip

Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Markus Ludwig, Kai Wang +13

Femtosecond laser pulses enable the synthesis of light across the electromagnetic spectrum and provide access to ultrafast phenomena in physics, biology, and chemistry. Chip-integr…

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…

astro-ph.EP2023

The Extreme Stellar-Signals Project III. Combining Solar Data from HARPS, HARPS-N, EXPRES, and NEID

Lily L. Zhao, Xavier Dumusque, Eric B. Ford +37

We present an analysis of Sun-as-a-star observations from four different high-resolution, stabilized spectrographs -- HARPS, HARPS-N, EXPRES, and NEID. With simultaneous observatio…

physics.optics2023★ 31 cited

Ultraviolet astronomical spectrograph calibration with laser frequency combs from nanophotonic lithium niobate waveguides

Markus Ludwig, Furkan Ayhan, Tobias M. Schmidt +21

Astronomical precision spectroscopy underpins searches for life beyond Earth, direct observation of the expanding Universe and constraining the potential variability of physical co…

physics.optics2023★ 76 cited

Synthetic-reflection self-injection-locked microcombs

Alexander E. Ulanov, Thibault Wildi, Nikolay G. Pavlov +3

Laser-driven microresonators have enabled chip-integrated light sources with unique properties, including the self-organized formation of ultrashort soliton pulses and frequency co…

physics.optics2022★ 55 cited

Soliton Pulses in Photonic Crystal Fabry-Perot Microresonators

Thibault Wildi, Mahmoud A. Gaafar, Thibault Voumard +2

Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in high-Q microresonators enable applications in sensing, communication, and signal processing. Until now, DKSs driven by continuous-wave (CW) lase…

physics.optics2021★ 41 cited

Dual-comb cavity ring-down spectroscopy

D. Lisak, D. Charczun, A. Nishiyama +10

Cavity ring-down spectroscopy is a ubiquitous optical method used to study light-matter interactions with high resolution, sensitivity and accuracy. However, it has never been perf…

physics.optics2021★ 54 cited

A Kerr Polarization Controller

Niall Moroney, Leonardo Del Bino, Shuangyou Zhang +10

Kerr-effect-induced changes of the polarization state of light are well known in pulsed laser systems. An example is nonlinear polarization rotation, which is critical to the opera…

physics.optics2020★ 29 cited

Dual-Comb Real-Time Molecular Fingerprint Imaging

T. Voumard, T. Wildi, V. Brasch +3

Hyperspectral imaging provides spatially resolved spectral information. Utilising dual frequency combs as active illumination sources, hyperspectral imaging with ultra-high spectra…

physics.optics2020★ 66 cited

Photo-acoustic dual-frequency comb spectroscopy

Thibault Wildi, Thibault Voumard, Victor Brasch +2

Photo-acoustic spectroscopy (PAS) is one of the most sensitive non-destructive analysis techniques for gases, fluids and solids. It can operate background-free at any wavelength an…