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most citedBottle microresonator broadband and low repetition rate frequency comb generator

60 citations · 154 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.optics2026

Compact, Reconfigurable Optical Delay Line on a Bent Silica Fiber

Manuel Crespo-Ballesteros, Misha Sumetsky

Tunable optical delay lines that simultaneously offer nanosecond-scale delay, broadband operation, low dispersion, and compact footprint remain challenging to realize with conventi…

physics.optics2026

Widely tunable SNAP microresonators via translation of side-coupled optical fibers

Isha Sharma, Misha Sumetsky

We demonstrate free spectral range (FSR) tunable Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (SNAP) microresonators induced by side-coupled parallel optical fiber segments. By translating on…

physics.optics2025

Widely FSR tunable high Q-factor microresonators formed at the intersection of straight optical fibers

Isha Sharma, Misha Sumetsky

We present a new class of high-Q tunable microresonators formed at the intersection of two straight silica optical fibers, whose free spectral range (FSR) can be widely tuned by fi…

physics.optics2024

Ultra-precise, sub-picometer tunable free spectral range in a parabolic microresonator induced by optical fiber bending

Manuel Crespo-Ballesteros, Misha Sumetsky

Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonic (SNAP) microresonators are fabricated on silica optical fibers, leveraging silica's outstanding material and mechanical properties. These propertie…

physics.optics2024

Transformation and amplification of light modulated by a traveling wave with a relatively low frequency

M. Sumetsky

The behavior of electromagnetic waves in a medium modulated in time and space, largely investigated decades ago, has recently attracted renewed interest. Here, we solve an intrigui…

physics.optics2023

Semiclassical theory of frequency combs generated by parametric modulation of optical microresonators

M. Sumetsky

An optical microresonator, which parameters are periodically modulated in time, can generate optical frequency comb (OFC) spectral resonances equally spaced by the modulation frequ…

physics.optics2016★ 13 cited

Optical frequency combs generated mechanically

M. Sumetsky

It is shown that a highly equidistant optical frequency comb can be generated by the parametric excitation of an optical bottle microresonator with nanoscale effective radius varia…

physics.optics2016★ 60 cited

Bottle microresonator broadband and low repetition rate frequency comb generator

V. Dvoyrin, M. Sumetsky

We propose a new type of broadband and low repetition rate frequency comb generator which has the shape of an elongated and nanoscale-shallow optical bottle microresonator created…

physics.optics2016★ 38 cited

Fabrication of surface nanoscale axial photonics (SNAP) structures with a femtosecond laser

Fangcheng Shen, Xuewen Shu, Lin Zhang +1

Surface nanoscale axial photonics (SNAP) structures are fabricated with a femtosecond laser for the first time. The inscriptions introduced by the laser pressurize the fiber and ca…

physics.optics2015★ 11 cited

Transient reconfigurable subangstrom-precise photonic circuits at the optical fiber surface

A. Dmitriev, N. Toropov, M. Sumetsky

Transient fully reconfigurable photonic circuits can be introduced at the optical fiber surface with subangstrom precision. A building block of these circuits, a 0.7 angstrom-preci…

physics.optics2015★ 1 cited

Microscopic optical buffering in a harmonic potential

M. Sumetsky

In the early days of quantum mechanics, Schrödinger noticed that oscillations of a wave packet in a one-dimensional harmonic potential well are periodic and, in contrast to those i…

physics.optics2011★ 31 cited

Coupled high Q-factor Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (SNAP) microresonators

M. Sumetsky, K. Abedin, D. J. DiGiovanni +3

We experimentally demonstrate series of identical two, three, and five coupled high Q-factor Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (SNAP) microresonators formed by periodic nanoscale v…