Month: May 2016

Publication Update No. 9

In the time from 12th to 19th of May the following papers were published (in no particular order):

H. Jung, H. X. Tang, Nanophotonics: Aluminum nitride as nonlinear optical material for on-chip frequency comb generation and frequency conversion

P. Parra-Rivas, et al., Opt. Lett. 41, 2402: Origin and stability of dark pulse Kerr combs in normal dispersion resonators

S.-W. Huang, et al., Scientific Reports 6, 26255: Smooth and flat phase-locked Kerr frequency comb generation by higher order mode suppression

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“Mexican wave” in microresonators

As I was thinking about a nice analogy of solitons in microresonators that would explain it to the layman, somehow the “Mexican wave” crossed my mind. Curiously, it did this while perfectly maintaining its shape.

Mexican Wave (By Eva Rinaldi - Big Day Out, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24788458)
Mexican Wave (By Eva Rinaldi – Big Day Out, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24788458)

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Publication Update No. 8

In the time from 2nd to 11th of May the following papers were published (in no particular order):

P.-H. Wang, et al., Opt. Exp. 24, 10890 (2016): Intracavity characterization of micro-comb generation in the single-soliton regime

V. Brasch, et al., Arxiv: 1605.02801 (2016): Self-referencing of an on-chip soliton Kerr frequency comb without external broadening

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Kerr frequency combs @ MFCA 2016 (6 to 10 July)

Group picture of the attendees of the MFCA2014 workshop.
Group picture of the attendees of the MFCA2014 workshop.

Well, as the MFCA spells out as “Nanotera workshop on Microresonator Frequency Combs: theory and Applications” it is basically all about Kerr frequency combs. See the program here.

From the first edition in 2014 (see picture above) I can say that I enjoyed seeing so many people who work in our field in one place. I was particularly happy about the more relaxed atmosphere compared to most conferences. Actually, the idea for this blog was born as an afterthought of the MFCA2014. It just took me some time to realize it.

Side note: the lake is only about 15min walk from the hotel but the water is pretty cold even during that time. So, think about bringing your wetsuit if you plan to go for a longer swim!

Disclaimer: I do my PhD in the group that is organizing this workshop.

Publication Update No. 7

In the time from 25th of April to 1st of May the following papers were published (in no particular order):

Missed before:

S.-W. Huang, et al., Science Adv. 2, e1501489: A broadband chip-scale optical frequency synthesizer at 2.7 × 10−16 relative uncertainty

Kerr comb specific:

M. Yu, et al., Arxiv: 1604.06501: Modelocked mid-infrared frequency combs in a silicon microresonator