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physics.optics2025★ 9 cited

High-pulse-energy integrated mode-locked lasers based on a Mamyshev oscillator

Zheru Qiu, Jianqi Hu, Xuan Yang +9

Ultrafast lasers have unlocked numerous advances across science and technology: they enable corneal surgery, reveal chemical reaction dynamics, and underpin optical atomic clocks.…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications

Jiachen Cai, Alexander Kotz, Hugo Larocque +7

Driven by the prospects of higher bandwidths for optical interconnects, integrated modulators involving materials beyond those available in silicon manufacturing increasingly rely…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Narrow-linewidth, piezoelectrically tunable photonic integrated blue laser

Anat Siddharth, Asger B. Gardner, Xinru Ji +8

Frequency-agile lasers operating in the ultraviolet-to-blue spectral range (360-480 nm) are critical enablers for a wide range of technologies, including free-space and underwater…

physics.optics2025

Hyperparametric solitons in nondegenerate optical parametric oscillators

Haizhong Weng, Xinru Ji, Mugahid Ali +7

Dissipative solitons and their associated low-noise, chip-scale frequency combs hold great potential for applications in optical communications, spectroscopy, precision time-keepin…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Copper Damascene Process-Based High-Performance Thin Film Lithium Tantalate Modulators

Mengxin Lin, Zihan Li, Alexander Kotz +4

Interfacing electrical and optical systems is a ubiquitous requirement for modern networks. Competitive footprint, efficiency, and bandwidth figures have propelled interest in depl…

physics.optics2025★ 12 cited

Copper-impurity-free photonic integrated circuits enable deterministic soliton microcombs

Xinru Ji, Xurong Li, Zheru Qiu +5

Chip-scale optical frequency combs based on microresonators (microcombs) enable GHz-THz repetition rates, broad bandwidth, compactness, and compatibility with wafer-scale manufactu…

physics.optics2025★ 14 cited

Arrayed waveguide gratings in lithium tantalate integrated photonics

Shivaprasad U. Hulyal, Jianqi Hu, Chengli Wang +3

Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWGs) are widely used photonic components for splitting and combining different wavelengths of light. They play a key role in wavelength division multip…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Full C- and L-band tunable erbium-doped integrated lasers via scalable manufacturing

Xinru Ji, Xuan Yang, Yang Liu +8

Erbium (Er) ions are the gain medium of choice for fiber-based amplifiers and lasers, offering a long excited-state lifetime, slow gain relaxation, low amplification nonlinearity a…

physics.optics2025

Terabit-class coherent communications enabled by an integrated photonics erbium doped amplifier

Di Che, Stefano Grillanda, Yang Liu +7

Coherent technologies have revolutionized optical communications, driving the capacity per fiber to multi-terabit per second (Tb/s) in combination with wavelength division multiple…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation (OAWG) Using Actively Phase-Stabilized Spectral Stitching

Daniel Drayss, Dengyang Fang, Alban Sherifaj +10

The conventional way of generating optical waveforms relies on the in-phase and quadrature (IQ) modulation of a continuous wave (CW) laser tone. In this case, the bandwidth of the…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Monolithic piezoelectrically tunable hybrid integrated laser with sub-fiber laser coherence

Andrey Voloshin, Anat Siddharth, Simone Bianconi +8

Ultra-low noise lasers are essential tools in a wide variety of applications, including data communication, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), quantum computing and sensing, and…

physics.optics2024

Ultrafast tunable photonic integrated Pockels extended-DBR laser

Anat Siddharth, Simone Bianconi, Rui Ning Wang +5

Frequency-agile lasers that can simultaneously feature low noise characteristics as well as fast mode hop-free frequency tuning are keystone components for applications ranging fro…

physics.optics2024★ 78 cited

Ultrabroadband thin-film lithium tantalate modulator for high-speed communications

Chengli Wang, Dengyang Fang, Alexander Kotz +7

The continuous growth of global data traffic over the past three decades, along with advances in disaggregated computing architectures, presents significant challenges for optical…

physics.optics2024★ 37 cited

Foundry compatible, efficient wafer-scale manufacturing of ultra-low loss, high-density SiN photonic integrated circuits

Xinru Ji, Rui Ning Wang, Yang Liu +3

Silicon nitride (SiN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have shown low linear loss, negligible nonlinear loss, and high power handling over traditional silicon photonics.…

physics.optics2024★ 70 cited

Integrated Triply Resonant Electro-Optic Frequency Comb in Lithium Tantalate

Junyin Zhang, Chengli Wang, Connor Denney +11

Integrated frequency comb generators based on Kerr parametric oscillation have led to chip-scale, gigahertz-spaced combs with new applications spanning hyperscale telecommunication…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Large-scale photonic chip based pulse interleaver for low-noise microwave generation

Zheru Qiu, Neetesh Singh, Yang Liu +4

Microwaves generated by optical techniques have demonstrated unprecedentedly low noise and hold significance in various applications such as communication, radar, instrumentation,…

physics.optics2024★ 5 cited

An ultra-broadband photonic-chip-based traveling-wave parametric amplifier

Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alberto Nardi, Johann Riemensberger +4

Optical amplification, crucial for modern communication and data center interconnects, primarily relies on erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) to enhance signals without distorti…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Unifying frequency metrology across microwave, optical, and free-electron domains

Yujia Yang, Paolo Cattaneo, Arslan S. Raja +6

Frequency metrology lies at the heart of precision measurement. Optical frequency combs provide a coherent link uniting the microwave and optical domains in the electromagnetic spe…

physics.optics2023★ 5 cited

Hydrogen-free low-temperature silica for next generation integrated photonics

Zheru Qiu, Zihan Li, Rui Ning Wang +4

The advances in novel low-loss "on insulator" integrated photonics platforms beyond silicon, such as thin-film LiNbO3, LiTaO3, GaP and BaTiO3 have demonstrated major potential acro…