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20172026
most citedAn Integrated-Photonics Optical-Frequency Synthesizer

968 citations · 978 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.app-ph2026

A scalable infrastructure for strontium optical clocks with integrated photonics

Zheng Luo, Travis C. Briles, Zachary L. Newman +16

Optical atomic clocks provide exceptionally accurate and precise signals for timekeeping and precision measurements, but they require high-power, free-space laser configurations th…

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★ 2 cited

A Kerr soliton Ising machine for combinatorial optimization problems

Yan Jin, Nitesh Chauhan, Jizhao Zang +4

The growing challenges of scaling digital computing motivate new approaches, especially through the dynamical evolution of physical systems that mimic neural networks and combinato…

physics.optics2025

Universal electronic synthesis by microresonator-soliton photomixing

Jizhao Zang, Travis C. Briles, Jesse S. Morgan +2

Access to electrical signals across the millimeter-wave (mmW) and terahertz (THz) bands offers breakthroughs for high-performance applications. Despite generations of revolutionary…

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

Broadband Optoelectronic Mixer for Terahertz Frequency-Comb Measurements

Jizhao Zang, Jesse S. Morgan, Andreas Beling +1

We demonstrate ultra-broadband optoelectronic mixing of frequency combs that provides phase-coherent detection of a repetition frequency up to 500 GHz, using a high-speed modified…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Cryogenic photonic resonator with /s drift

Wei Zhang, William R. Milner, Jun Ye +1

Thermal noise is the predominant instability in the provision of ultrastable laser frequency, referencing to an optical cavity. Reducing the thermal-noise limit of a cavity means e…

physics.optics2024

2.4-THz Bandwidth Optical Coherent Receiver Based on a Photonic Crystal Microcomb

Callum Deakin, Jizhao Zang, Xi Chen +5

We demonstrate a spectrally-sliced single-polarization optical coherent receiver with a record 2.4-THz bandwidth, using a 200-GHz tantalum pentoxide photonic crystal microring reso…

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.atom-ph2024★ 4 cited

Laser cooling Sr to microkelvin temperature with an integrated-photonics system

Andrew R. Ferdinand, Zheng Luo, Sindhu Jammi +12

We report on experiments generating a magneto-optical trap (MOT) of 88-strontium (Sr) atoms at microkelvin temperature, using integrated-photonics devices. With metasurface…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

The bandgap-detuned excitation regime in photonic-crystal resonators

Yan Jin, Erwan Lucas, Jizhao Zang +4

Control of nonlinear interactions in microresonators enhances access to classical and quantum field states across nearly limitless bandwidth. A recent innovation has been to levera…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Three-dimensional, multi-wavelength beam formation with integrated metasurface optics for Sr laser cooling

Sindhu Jammi, Andrew R. Ferdinand, Zheng Luo +13

We demonstrate the formation of a complex, multi-wavelength, three-dimensional laser beam configuration with integrated metasurface optics. Our experiments support the development…

physics.app-ph2017★ 968 cited

An Integrated-Photonics Optical-Frequency Synthesizer

Daryl T. Spencer, Tara Drake, Travis C. Briles +24

Integrated-photonics microchips now enable a range of advanced functionalities for high-coherence applications such as data transmission, highly optimized physical sensors, and har…