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most citedLaser-power consumption of soliton formation in a bidirectional Kerr resonator

6 citations · 7 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.optics2026

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…

physics.optics2025

Amorphous metal oxide mixtures for high-Q integrated nonlinear photonics

Alexa R. Carollo, Atasi Dan, Haixin Liu +3

Choice of material is ubiquitous in integrated photonics to design device properties, whereas changing material composition is much less common. With phase matching as an additiona…

physics.optics2025

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…

physics.optics2025

Activating high-power parametric oscillation in photonic-crystal resonators

Grant M. Brodnik, Lindell M. Williams, Haixin Liu +4

By engineering the mode spectrum of a Kerr microresonator, we selectively activate nonlinear phase matching amongst broadband parametric gain. At threshold, optical parametric osci…

physics.optics2025

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…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Nanophotonic oscillators for laser conversion beyond an octave

Grant M. Brodnik, Haixin Liu, David R. Carlson +2

Many uses of lasers place the highest importance on access to specific wavelength bands. For example, mobilizing optical-atomic clocks for a leap in sensing requires compact lasers…

physics.optics2024

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…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

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.…