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All-optical frequency division on-chip using a single laser
Yun Zhao, Jae K. Jang, Karl J. McNulty +4
The generation of spectrally pure high-frequency microwave signals is a critical functionality in fundamental and applied sciences, including metrology and communications. The deve…
Large regenerative parametric amplification on chip at ultra-low pump powers
Yun Zhao, Jae K. Jang, Xingchen Ji +3
Chip-based optical amplifiers can significantly expand the functionalities of photonic devices. In particular, optical-parametric amplifiers (OPAs), with engineerable gain-spectra,…
Synchronization of non-solitonic Kerr combs
Bok Young Kim, Jae K. Jang, Yoshitomo Okawachi +3
Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature that manifests as the spectral or temporal locking of coupled nonlinear oscillators. In the field of photonics, synchronization…
Theory of -microresonator-based frequency conversion
Yun Zhao, Jae K. Jang, Yoshitomo Okawachi +1
Microresonator-based platforms with nonlinearities have the potential to perform frequency conversion at high efficiencies and ultralow powers with small footprints. The…
Exploiting Ultralow Loss Multimode Waveguides for Broadband Frequency Combs
Xingchen Ji, Jae K. Jang, Utsav D. Dave +4
Low propagation loss in high confinement waveguides is critical for chip-based nonlinear photonics applications. Sophisticated fabrication processes which yield sub-nm roughness ar…
Nanophotonic spin-glass for realization of a coherent Ising machine
Yoshitomo Okawachi, Mengjie Yu, Jae K. Jang +5
The need for solving optimization problems is prevalent in a wide range of physical applications, including neuroscience, network design, biological systems, socio-economics, and c…
Near-degenerate quadrature-squeezed vacuum generation on a silicon-nitride chip
Yun Zhao, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Jae K. Jang +3
Squeezed states are a primary resource for continuous-variable (CV) quantum information processing. To implement CV protocols in a scalable and robust way, it is desirable to gener…
Observation of Arnold Tongues in Coupled Soliton Kerr Frequency Combs
Jae K. Jang, Xingchen Ji, Chaitanya Joshi +3
We demonstrate various regimes of synchronization in systems of two coupled cavity soliton-based Kerr frequency combs. We show sub-harmonic, harmonic and harmonic-ratio synchroniza…
Turn-key, high-efficiency Kerr comb source
Bok Young Kim, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Jae K. Jang +6
We demonstrate an approach for automated Kerr comb generation in the normal group-velocity dispersion (GVD) regime. Using a coupled-ring geometry in silicon nitride, we precisely c…
Visible nonlinear photonics via high-order-mode dispersion engineering
Yun Zhao, Xingchen Ji, Bok Young Kim +11
Over the past decade, remarkable advances have been realized in chip-based nonlinear photonic devices for classical and quantum applications in the near- and mid-infrared regimes.…
Synchronization of coupled optical microresonators
Jae K. Jang, Alexander Klenner, Xingchen Ji +3
The phenomenon of synchronization occurs universally across the natural sciences and provides critical insight into the behavior of coupled nonlinear dynamical systems. It also off…
Dynamics of mode-coupling-induced microresonator frequency combs in normal dispersion
Jae K. Jang, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Mengjie Yu +4
We experimentally and theoretically investigate the dynamics of microresonator-based frequency comb generation assisted by mode coupling in the normal group-velocity dispersion (GV…
Breather soliton dynamics in microresonators
Mengjie Yu, Jae K. Jang, Yoshitomo Okawachi +6
The generation of temporal cavity solitons in microresonators results in low-noise optical frequency combs which are critical for applications in spectroscopy, astronomy, navigatio…
An all-optical buffer based on temporal cavity solitons operating at 10 Gb/s
Jae K. Jang, Miro Erkintalo, Jochen Schröder +3
We demonstrate the operation of an all-optical buffer based on temporal cavity solitons stored in a nonlinear passive fiber ring resonator. Unwanted acoustic interactions between n…
Thermally Controlled Comb Generation and Soliton Modelocking in Microresonators
Chaitanya Joshi, Jae K. Jang, Kevin Luke +6
We report the first demonstration of thermally controlled soliton modelocked frequency comb generation in microresonators. By controlling the electric current through heaters integ…
Measurement of microresonator frequency comb stability by spectral interferometry
Karen E. Webb, Jae K. Jang, Jessienta Anthony +3
We demonstrate a new technique for the experimental measurement of the spectral coherence of microresonator optical frequency combs. Specifically, we use a spectral interference me…
Bunching of temporal cavity solitons via forward Brillouin scattering
Miro Erkintalo, Kathy Luo, Jae K. Jang +2
We report on the experimental observation of bunching dynamics with temporal cavity solitons in a continuously-driven passive fibre resonator. Specifically, we excite a large numbe…
Controlled merging and annihilation of localized dissipative structures in an AC-driven damped nonlinear Schrödinger system
Jae K. Jang, Miro Erkintalo, Kathy Luo +3
We report studies of controlled interactions of localized dissipative structures in a system described by the AC-driven damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Extensive numerical s…
Spontaneous creation and annihilation of temporal cavity solitons in a coherently-driven passive fiber resonator
Kathy Luo, Jae K. Jang, Stephane Coen +2
We report on the experimental observation of spontaneous creation and annihilation of temporal cavity solitons (CSs) in a coherently-driven, macroscopic optical fiber resonator. Sp…
Writing and erasing of temporal cavity solitons by direct phase modulation of the cavity driving field
Jae K. Jang, Miro Erkintalo, Stuart G. Murdoch +1
Temporal cavity solitons (CSs) are persisting pulses of light that can manifest themselves in continuously driven passive resonators, such as macroscopic fiber ring cavities and mo…
Temporal tweezing of light: trapping and manipulation of temporal cavity solitons
Jae K. Jang, Miro Erkintalo, Stephane Coen +1
Optical tweezers use laser light to trap and move microscopic particles in space. Here we demonstrate a similar control over ultrashort light pulses, but in time. Our experiment in…
Observation of dispersive wave emission by temporal cavity solitons
Jae K. Jang, Miro Erkintalo, Stuart G. Murdoch +1
We examine a coherently-driven, dispersion-managed, passive Kerr fiber ring resonator and report the first direct experimental observation of dispersive wave emission by temporal c…
Ultra-weak long-range interactions of solitons observed over astronomical distances
Jae K. Jang, Miro Erkintalo, Stuart G. Murdoch +1
We report what we believe is the weakest interaction between solitons ever observed. Our experiment involves temporal optical cavity solitons recirculating in a coherently-driven p…