Currently most published work on Kerr frequency combs still features experiments and theory aimed at improving the understanding of Kerr frequency combs or at showing what is possible. However, more and more papers only use Kerr frequency combs as a suitable light source for other experiments. Here is a list that features such Kerr frequency comb applications, sorted by application field.
Astronomy
- Obrzud, E. et al. A microphotonic astrocomb. Nature Photonics 13, 31 (2019).
- Suh, M.-G. et al. Searching for exoplanets using a microresonator astrocomb. Nature Photonics 13, 25 (2019).
Dual-comb technology
- Lin, T. et al. Broadband Ultrahigh-Resolution chip-scale Scanning Soliton Dual-Comb Spectroscopy. arXiv:2001.00869 (2020).
- Yu, M., Okawachi, Y., Griffith, A. G., Lipson, M. & Gaeta, A. L. Microfluidic mid-infrared spectroscopy via microresonator-based dual-comb source. Opt. Lett., OL 44, 4259–4262 (2019).
- Bao, C., Suh, M.-G. & Vahala, K. Microresonator soliton dual-comb imaging. Optica, OPTICA 6, 1110–1116 (2019).
- Dutt, A. et al. On-chip dual-comb source for spectroscopy. Science Advances 4, e1701858 (2018).
- Trocha, P. et al. Ultrafast optical ranging using microresonator soliton frequency combs. Science 359, 887–891 (2018).
- Suh, M.-G. & Vahala, K. J. Soliton microcomb range measurement. Science 359, 884–887 (2018).
- Yu, M. et al. Silicon-chip-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy. Nature Communications 9, 1869 (2018).
Imaging
- Bao, C., Suh, M.-G. & Vahala, K. Microresonator soliton dual-comb imaging. Optica, OPTICA 6, 1110–1116 (2019).
Metrology / Atomic clocks
- Drake, T. E. et al. Terahertz-Rate Kerr-Microresonator Optical Clockwork. Phys. Rev. X 9, 031023 (2019).
- Newman, Z. L. et al. Architecture for the photonic integration of an optical atomic clock. Optica, OPTICA 6, 680–685 (2019).
- Drake, T. E. et al. A Kerr-resonator optical clockwork. arXiv:1811.00581 [physics] (2018).
- Spencer, D. T. et al. An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics. Nature 1 (2018). doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0065-7
- Papp, S. B. et al. Microresonator frequency comb optical clock. Optica 1, 10 (2014).
Optical coherence tomography
- Ji, X. et al. Chip-based frequency comb sources for optical coherence tomography. Opt. Express, OE 27, 19896–19905 (2019).
- Marchand, P. J. et al. Soliton microcomb based spectral domain optical coherence tomography. arXiv:1902.06985 (2019).
Packaging of Kerr frequency combs
- Shen, B. et al. Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs operated at CMOS frequencies. arXiv:1911.02636 [physics] (2019).
- Raja, A. S. et al. Packaged photonic chip-based soliton microcomb using an ultralow-noise laser. arXiv:1906.03194 (2019).
- Suh, M.-G., Wang, C. Y., Johnson, C. & Vahala, K. J. Directly pumped 10 GHz microcomb modules from low-power diode lasers. Opt. Lett., OL 44, 1841–1843 (2019).
- Stern, B., Ji, X., Okawachi, Y., Gaeta, A. L. & Lipson, M. Battery-operated integrated frequency comb generator. Nature 1 (2018). doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0598-9
Quantum light sources and applications
- Kues, M. et al. On-chip generation of high-dimensional entangled quantum states and their coherent control. Nature 546, 622–626 (2017).
- Jaramillo-Villegas, J. A. et al. Persistent energy–time entanglement covering multiple resonances of an on-chip biphoton frequency comb. Optica 4, 655 (2017).
- Wang, F.-X. et al. Quantum key distribution with dissipative Kerr soliton generated by on-chip microresonators. arXiv:1812.11415 quant-ph.
- Samara, F. et al. High-Rate Photon Pairs and Sequential Time-Bin Entanglement with Si3N4 Ring Microresonators. arXiv:1902.09960 [physics, physics:quant-ph] (2019).
Ranging
RF synthesis and processing
- Brasch, V., Obrzud, E., Lecomte, S. & Herr, T. Nonlinear filtering of an optical pulse train using dissipative Kerr solitons. Optica 6, 1386–1393 (2019).
- Tan, M. et al. Microwave photonic fractional Hilbert transformer with an integrated optical soliton crystal micro-comb. arXiv:1910.06282 [physics] (2019) doi:10.1109/JLT.2019.2946606.
- Xu, X. et al. Microwave and RF signal processing based on integrated soliton crystal optical microcombs. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 1–1 (2019). doi:10.1109/LPT.2019.2940497
- Xu, X. et al. Advanced Adaptive Photonic RF Filters with 80 Taps Based on an Integrated Optical Micro-Comb Source. Journal of Lightwave Technology 37, 1288–1295 (2019).
- Lucas, E. et al. Ultralow-Noise Photonic Microwave Synthesis using a Soliton Microcomb-based Transfer Oscillator. arXiv:1903.01213 [physics] (2019).
- Weng, W. et al. Spectral Purification of Microwave Signals with Disciplined Dissipative Kerr Solitons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013902 (2019).
- Xu, X. et al. A Radio Frequency Channelizer based on Cascaded Integrated Micro-ring Resonator Optical Comb Sources and Filters. Journal of Lightwave Technology 1–1 (2018). doi:10.1109/JLT.2018.2819172
- Xu, X. et al. Photonic microwave true time delays for phased array antennas using a 49GHz FSR integrated optical micro-comb source. Photon. Res., PRJ 6, B30–B36 (2018).
- Xu, X. et al. Advanced RF and microwave functions based on an integrated optical frequency comb source. Opt. Express, OE 26, 2569–2583 (2018).
- Liang, W. et al. Stabilized C-Band Kerr Frequency Comb. IEEE Photonics Journal 9, 1–11 (2017).
- Arafin, S. et al. Towards chip-scale optical frequency synthesis based on optical heterodyne phase-locked loop. Optics Express 25, 681 (2017).
Spectroscopy
- Lin, T. et al. Broadband Ultrahigh-Resolution chip-scale Scanning Soliton Dual-Comb Spectroscopy. arXiv:2001.00869 (2020).
- Kuse, N., Tetsumoto, T., Navickaite, G., Geiselmann, M. & Fermann, M. E. Continuous scanning of a dissipative Kerr-microresonator soliton comb for broadband, high resolution spectroscopy. arXiv:1908.07044 (2019).
- Yu, M., Okawachi, Y., Griffith, A. G., Lipson, M. & Gaeta, A. L. Microfluidic mid-infrared spectroscopy via microresonator-based dual-comb source. Opt. Lett., OL 44, 4259–4262 (2019).
- Yang, Q.-F. et al. Vernier spectrometer using counterpropagating soliton microcombs. Science eaaw2317 (2019). doi:10.1126/science.aaw2317
- Yang, Q.-F. et al. Vernier spectrometer using counter-propagating soliton microcombs. arXiv:1811.12925 [physics] (2018).
- Dutt, A. et al. On-chip dual-comb source for spectroscopy. Science Advances 4, e1701858 (2018).
- Yu, M. et al. Silicon-chip-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy. Nature Communications 9, 1869 (2018).
- Yu, M. et al. Gas-phase microresonator-based comb spectroscopy without an external pump laser. arXiv:1806.01348 [physics] (2018).
Telecom / data transmission
- Helgason, Ó. B. et al. Superchannel engineering of microcombs for optical communications. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, JOSAB 36, 2013–2022 (2019).
- Marin-Palomo, P., Kemal, J. N., Freude, W., Randel, S. & Koos, C. OSNR limitations of chip-based optical frequency comb sources for WDM coherent communications. arXiv:1907.01042 [physics] (2019).
- Mazur, M. et al. Enabling high spectral efficiency coherent superchannel transmission with soliton microcombs. arXiv:1812.11046 physics.
- Willner, A. N. et al. Scalable and reconfigurable optical tapped-delay-line for multichannel equalization and correlation using nonlinear wave mixing and a Kerr frequency comb. Opt. Lett., OL 43, 5563–5566 (2018).
- Liao, P. et al. Effects of erbium-doped fiber amplifier induced pump noise on soliton Kerr frequency combs for 64-quadrature amplitude modulation transmission. Opt. Lett., OL 43, 2495–2498 (2018).
- Geng, Y. et al. Terabit optical OFDM superchannel transmission via coherent carriers of a hybrid chip-scale soliton frequency comb. Opt. Lett., OL43, 2406–2409 (2018).
- Fülöp, A. et al. High-order coherent communications using mode-locked dark-pulse Kerr combs from microresonators. Nature Communications 9, 1598 (2018).
- Liao, P. et al. Pump-linewidth-tolerant wavelength multicasting using soliton Kerr frequency combs. Opt. Lett., OL 42, 3177–3180 (2017).
- Marin-Palomo, P. et al. Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications. Nature 546, 274–279 (2017).
- Pfeifle, J. et al. Coherent terabit communications with microresonator Kerr frequency combs. Nature Photonics 8, 375–380 (2014).
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