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7 papers

physics.optics2026

Harnessing thermo-optic dynamics for frequency-agile soliton microcombs

Yang Liu, Suwan Sun, Yueguang Zhou +8

Dissipative Kerr soliton microcombs enable compact and scalable frequency comb sources for precision metrology, spectroscopy, communications and coherent LiDAR, where broad and rel…

physics.optics2026

Thermally accessible broadband soliton microcombs in silicon carbide enabled by dynamic polarization control

Haoyang Tan, Yi Zheng, Xiyuan Lu +5

Optical microcombs generated in high-Q microresonators are promising chip-scale light sources for applications ranging from optical communications to spectroscopy and metrology. Ho…

physics.optics2026

Broadband parametric amplification in AlGaAs-on-insulator nanowaveguides

Yanjing Zhao, Chanju Kim, Yi Zheng +4

Optical amplification is critical for optical signal transmission. While the emergence of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers has revolutionized optical communications in fiber-based sys…

physics.optics2026

Engineered mode coupling in high-Q microresonators enables deterministic low-repetition-rate soliton microcombs

Yi Zheng, Yang Liu, Haoyang Tan +4

Soliton optical frequency combs have become key enablers for a wide range of applications, including telecommunications, optical atomic clocks, ultrafast distance measurements, dua…

physics.optics2025

Octave-spanning, deterministic single soliton generation in 4H-silicon carbide-on-insulator microring resonators

Yi Zheng, Liping Zhou, Chengli Wang +5

The miniaturization of self-referencing frequency comb systems enables emerging applications in metrology and spectroscopy. One major challenge in realizing the chip-scale self-ref…

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…