Kerr frequency combs @ Photonics West 2018 (27 January – 1 February)

For all of those who plan to attend Photonics West 2018 in San Francisco in a months from now, there are quite some presentations on Kerr frequency combs including some in two dedicated sessions. Below, after the link is a short overview of the relevant talks I found in the current program as PDF. And we might meet as I plan to be there as well.

Monday, 29th:

8:00am to 10:00am: Session 1 Novel Microresonator Topologies and Sensors I

  • Microcomb LIDAR using counter-propagating solitons (inv), Kerry J. Vahala, [10518-5]

10:30am to 12:10pm: Session 2: Quantum Optics with Microresonators

  • Practical excitation schemes for integrated micro-cavity-based quantum frequency combs, Piotr Roztocki, et al., [10518-9]

1:25pm to 3:25pm: Session 3 Microresonators and Optical Frequency Combs I:

  • Microwave and RF applications of optical micro-combs (inv), David J. Moss, [10518-10]
  • Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators (inv), Tobias J. Kippenberg, [10518-11]
  • Temporal cavity solitons in synchronously driven Fabry-Perot microresonators (inv), Tobias Herr, et al. [10518-12]
  • Advances on nonlinear phenomena in WGM resonators, Yanne K. K.
    Chembo and Georgia Tech-Lorraine [10518-13]
  • Gallium phosphide microresonator frequency combs (inv), Simon Hönl et al., [10518-14]

3:30 to 5:40: Session 3 Nonlinear Laser Dynamics

  • Dynamical modalities in Kerr frequency combs, Jinghui Yang, et al., [10526-10]

3:55pm to 6:05pm: Session 4 Microresonators and Optical Frequency Combs II

  • Kerr-microresonator combs for low-noise frequency synthesis (inv), Scott Diddams and Scott Papp, [10516-12]
  • Dynamics and locking of switching waves in a normally dispersive fber ring resonator, Bruno Garbin, et al., [10518-15]
  • Whispering gallery optical parametric oscillators for the mid-infrared spectral range (inv), Ingo Breunig, et al., [10516-13]
  • Saturable absorption by carbon nanotubes on silica microtoroids for stable mode-locking, Tsutaru Kumagai, et al., [10518-16]
  • Agile generation of microresonator-based frequency combs without pump detuning and local temperature controlling, Jing Wang, et al., [10518-18]

Tuesday, 30th:

3:50pm to 5:50pm: Session 7 Radio Frequency to Terahertz

  • Chip-scale microresonator Turing pattern formation for coherent highpower THz radiation (inv), Shu-Wei Huang, et al., [10531-32]

6:00pm to 8:00pm: poster session:

  • Effcient octave-spanning frequency comb generation in normal dispersion regime, Minghui Yang, et al., [10518-72]

Wednesday, 31st:

10:30am to 12:20pm: Session 9 QCL Frequency Combs

  • Microresonator-based mid-infrared frequency combs (inv), Alexander L. Gaeta, [10553-36]

2:00pm to 3:40pm: Session 11 Atomic Clocks, Atomic Interferometers, and  Enabling Technologies

  • Photonic-chip frequency combs for optical synthesis and clock metrology (inv), Scott Papp, [10548-45]
  • Chip-scale atomic references at 1.5 microns interfaced with microcombs and high-fnesse cavities (inv), Liron Stern, [10548-48]

Thursday, 1st:

8:20am to 10:00am: Session 17 Frequency Combs and Nonlinear Processes I

  • Optical frequency combs and photonic integrated circuits: tools for high-speed communications and advanced distance metrology (inv), Christian Koos, [10540-74]
  • High-dimensional optical quantum states from integrated frequency combs and their coherent control (inv), Stefania Sciara, et al., [10540-76]

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