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20102020
most citedAn Integrated-Photonics Optical-Frequency Synthesizer

968 citations · 2.7k across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.optics2020

Tantala Kerr-nonlinear integrated photonics

Hojoong Jung, Su-Peng Yu, David R. Carlson +3

Integrated photonics plays a central role in modern science and technology, enabling experiments from nonlinear science to quantum information, ultraprecise measurements and sensin…

physics.optics2020★ 44 cited

Generating octave-bandwidth soliton frequency combs with compact, low-power semiconductor lasers

Travis C. Briles, Su-Peng Yu, Tara E. Drake +2

We report a comprehensive study of low-power, octave-bandwidth, single-soliton microresonator frequency combs in both the 1550 nm and 1064 nm bands. Our experiments utilize fully i…

physics.optics2019★ 1 cited

Milliwatt-threshold visible-telecom optical parametric oscillation using silicon nanophotonics

Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Anshuman Singh +8

The on-chip creation of coherent light at visible wavelengths is crucial to field-level deployment of spectroscopy and metrology systems. Although on-chip lasers have been implemen…

physics.optics2019★ 98 cited

Broadband Resonator-Waveguide Coupling for Efficient Extraction of Octave Spanning Microcombs

Gregory Moille, Qing Li, Travis C. Briles +7

Frequency combs spanning over an octave have been successfully demonstrated in Kerr nonlinear microresonators on-chip. These micro-combs rely on both engineered dispersion, to enab…

physics.optics2019

Thermal decoherence and laser cooling of Kerr microresonator solitons

Tara E. Drake, Jordan R. Stone, Travis C. Briles +1

Thermal noise is ubiquitous in microscopic systems and in high-precision measurements. Controlling thermal noise, especially using laser light to apply dissipation, substantially a…

physics.optics2018★ 12 cited

Photonic integration of an optical atomic clock

Z. L. Newman, V. Maurice, T. E. Drake +19

Laboratory optical atomic clocks achieve remarkable accuracy (now counted to 18 digits or more), opening possibilities to explore fundamental physics and enable new measurements. H…

physics.optics2018★ 72 cited

A Kerr-microresonator optical clockwork

Tara E. Drake, Travis C. Briles, Daryl T. Spencer +8

Kerr microresonators generate interesting and useful fundamental states of electromagnetic radiation through nonlinear interactions of continuous-wave (CW) laser light. Using photo…

physics.optics2017★ 6 cited

Kerr-microresonator solitons for accurate carrier-envelope-frequency stabilization

Travis C. Briles, Jordan R. Stone, Tara E. Drake +8

Carrier-envelope phase stabilization of optical pulses enables exquisitely precise measurements by way of direct optical-frequency synthesis, absolute optical-to-microwave phase co…

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…

physics.optics2017★ 224 cited

Thermal and Nonlinear Dissipative-Soliton Dynamics in Kerr Microresonator Frequency Combs

Jordan Stone, Travis Briles, Tara Drake +4

We explore the dynamical response of dissipative Kerr solitons to changes in pump power and detuning and show how thermal and nonlinear processes couple these parameters to the fre…

physics.optics2016★ 328 cited

Stably accessing octave-spanning microresonator frequency combs in the soliton regime

Qing Li, Travis C. Briles, Daron A. Westly +6

Microresonator frequency combs can be an enabling technology for optical frequency synthesis and timekeeping in low size, weight, and power architectures. Such systems require comb…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 103 cited

Breakdown of Fermi liquid description for strongly interacting fermions

Yoav Sagi, Tara E. Drake, Rabin Paudel +2

The nature of the normal state of an ultracold Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover regime is an intriguing and controversial topic. While the many-body ground state remains a conden…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 139 cited

Measurement of the Homogeneous Contact of a Unitary Fermi gas

Yoav Sagi, Tara E. Drake, Rabin Paudel +1

By selectively probing the center of a trapped gas, we measure the local, or homogeneous, contact of a unitary Fermi gas as a function of temperature. Tan's contact, C, is proporti…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 26 cited

Direct observation of the Fermi surface in an ultracold atomic gas

T. E. Drake, Y. Sagi, R. Paudel +3

The ideal (i.e. noninteracting), homogeneous Fermi gas, with its characteristic sharp Fermi surface in the momentum distribution, is a fundamental concept relevant to the behavior…

cond-mat.quant-gas2010★ 126 cited

Evolution of the Normal State of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas from a Pseudogap Phase to a Molecular Bose Gas

A. Perali, F. Palestini, P. Pieri +5

Wave-vector resolved radio frequency (rf) spectroscopy data for an ultracold trapped Fermi gas are reported for several couplings at Tc, and extensively analyzed in terms of a pair…

cond-mat.quant-gas2010★ 309 cited

Observation of pseudogap behavior in a strongly interacting Fermi gas

J. P. Gaebler, J. T. Stewart, T. E. Drake +4

Ultracold atomic Fermi gases present an opportunity to study strongly interacting Fermi systems in a controlled and uncomplicated setting. The ability to tune attractive interactio…

cond-mat.quant-gas2010★ 262 cited

Verification of universal relations in a strongly interacting Fermi gas

J. T. Stewart, J. P. Gaebler, T. E. Drake +1

Many-body fermion systems are important in many branches of physics, including condensed matter, nuclear, and now cold atom physics. In many cases, the interactions between fermion…