Applications and Fundamentals of Microresonator Frequency Combs

Project Information

MICROCOMB

Grant agreement ID: 812818

DOI 10.3030/812818

Project closed

EC signature date 20 August 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 December 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 4 038 096,24

EU contribution € 4 038 096,24

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF BATH
United Kingdom

Deliverables

Documents, reports (20)

Intermediate report on WP 9 (chi(2) nonlinearity)
Transferable skills workshop 1
Course 1 report
Intermediate report on WP 8 (hybrid integration and packaging)
Scientific school/conference 1
Courses 2-4 report

Course 1 report

Final dissemination/outreach report

Final disseminationoutreach report

Report on exploitation of the ETN research and strengthening of the European innovation capacity
Transferable skills workshops 3,4

Transferable skills workshops 34

Final report on WP 8 (hybrid integration and packaging)

Final report on WP 8 hybrid integration and packaging

Scientific school/conference 2

Scientific schoolconference 2

Intermediate report on WP 7 (spectroscopy & metrology)

Intermediate report on WP 7 (spectroscopy & metrology). This deliverable is led by Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics.

Final report on WP 9 (chi(2) nonlinearity)

Final report on WP 9 chi2 nonlinearity

Intermediate report on WP 6 (signal processing & optical communications)
Final report on WP 6 (signal processing & optical communications)

Final report on WP 6 signal processing optical communications

Transferable skills workshop 2

Transferable skills workshop 1

Final report on WP 7 (spectroscopy & metrology)

Final report on WP 7 spectroscopy metrology This deliverable is led by Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics

Intermediate dissemination/outreach report

Intermediate dissemination/outreach report

Course 5 report
Final Scientific school/conference

Scientific schoolconference 2

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website and Twitter account

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (24)

Threshold of complexity and Arnold tongues in Kerr-ring microresonators

Author(s): D. V. Skryabin, Z. Fan, A. Villois, D. N. Puzyrev
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 103/1, 2021, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: Physical Review A
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.103.l011502

Frequency combs in a microring optical parametric oscillator

Author(s): A. Villois, N. Kondratiev, I. Breunig, D. N. Puzyrev, D. V. Skryabin
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 44/18, 2019, Page(s) 4443, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.44.004443

Bright-soliton frequency combs and dressed states in χ(2) microresonators

Author(s): D. N. Puzyrev; V. V. Pankratov; A. Villois; D. V. Skryabin
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 2469-9934
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.104.013520

Dissipative solitons in photonic molecules

Author(s): Óskar B. Helgason, Francisco R. Arteaga-Sierra, Zhichao Ye, Krishna Twayana, Peter A. Andrekson, Magnus Karlsson, Jochen Schröder, Victor Torres-Company
Published in: Nature Photonics, 2021, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-020-00757-9

Hierarchy of coupled mode and envelope models for bi-directional microresonators with Kerr nonlinearity

Author(s): Dmitry V. Skryabin
Published in: OSA Continuum, Issue 3/6, 2020, Page(s) 1364, ISSN 2578-7519
Publisher: OSA Publishing
DOI: 10.1364/osac.392211

Analysis of Kerr comb generation in silicon microresonators under the influence of two-photon absorption and fast free-carrier dynamics

Author(s): Trocha, P.; Gärtner, J.; Marin-Palomo, P.; Freude, W.; Reichel, W.; Koos, C
Published in: Physical review / A, Issue 24699934, 2021, Page(s) Art.-Nr.: 063515, ISSN 2469-9934
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.5445/ir/1000135466

Optical Arbitrary Waveform Measurement (OAWM) Using Silicon Photonic Slicing Filters

Author(s): Fang, D.; Zazzi, A.; Mueller, J.; Dray, D.; Fullner, C.; Marin-Palomo, P.; Tabatabaei Mashayekh, A.; Dipta Das, A.; Weizel, M.; Gudyriev, S.; Freude, W.; Randel, S.; Scheytt, J.; Witzens, J.; Koos, C.
Published in: IEEE Explore, Issue 07338724, 2022, Page(s) pp. 1705-1717, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2021.3130764

Performance of chip-scale optical frequency comb generators in coherent WDM communications

Author(s): Pablo Marin-Palomo, Juned N. Kemal, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Wolfgang Freude, Sebastian Randel, Christian Koos
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 28/9, 2020, Page(s) 12897, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.380413

Finesse and four-wave mixing in microresonators

Author(s): D. N. Puzyrev and D. V. Skryabin
Published in: Physical Review A, 2021, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.103.013508

Coupled-mode theory for microresonators with quadratic nonlinearity

Author(s): Dmitry V. Skryabin
Published in: Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Issue 37/9, 2020, Page(s) 2604, ISSN 0740-3224
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/josab.397015

Emergent nonlinear phenomena in a driven dissipative photonic dimer

Author(s): A. Tikan, J. Riemensberger, K. Komagata, S. Hönl, M. Churaev, C. Skehan, H. Guo, R. N. Wang, J. Liu, P. Seidler, T. J. Kippenberg
Published in: Nature Physics, 2021, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01159-y

Spectral extension and synchronization of microcombs in a single microresonator

Author(s): Shuangyou Zhang, Jonathan M. Silver, Toby Bi, Pascal Del’Haye
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19804-8

Frequency Comb Generation via Cascaded Second-Order Nonlinearities in Microresonators

Author(s): Jan Szabados, Danila N. Puzyrev, Yannick Minet, Luis Reis, Karsten Buse, Alberto Villois, Dmitry V. Skryabin, Ingo Breunig
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 124/20, 2020, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.203902

Ultra-fast optical ranging using quantum-dash mode-locked laser diodes

Author(s): Trocha, Philipp; Kemal, Juned Nassir; Gaimard, Quentin; Aubin, Guy; Lelarge, François; Ramdane, Abderrahim; Freude, Wolfgang; Randel, Sebastian; Koos, Christian
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 20452322, 2022, Page(s) 1076 (2022), ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04368-4

Nonlinear states and dynamics in a synthetic frequency dimension

Author(s): Tobias J. Kippenberg; Alexey Tikan; Aleksandr K. Tusnin
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.102.023518

Protected generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in supermodes of coupled optical microresonators

Author(s): Alexey Tikan; Aleksandr Tusnin; Johann Riemensberger; Mikhail Churaev; Xinru Ji; Kenichi Nicolas Komagata; Rui Ning Wang; Junqiu Liu; Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 19, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: Science
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.07976

Photon-photon polaritons in χ ( 2 ) microresonators

Author(s): D. V. Skryabin, V. V. Pankratov, A. Villois, D. N. Puzyrev
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 3/1, 2021, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.3.l012017

Dissipative Kerr solitons in a photonic dimer on both sides of exceptional point

Author(s): Komagata, Kenichi; Tikan, Alexey; Tusnin, Aleksandr; Riemensberger, Johann; Churaev, Mikhail; Guo, Hairun; Kippenberg, Tobias J.
Published in: Communication Physics, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-021-00661-w

Hybrid integrated mode-locked laser using a GaAs-based 1064 nm gain chip and a SiN external cavity

Author(s): Ewoud Vissers; Stijn Poelman; Hans Wenzel; Heike Christopher; Kasper Van Gasse; Andrea Knigge; Bart Kuyken
Published in: Optics Express, Issue Vol. 30, Issue 23, 2022, Page(s) 42394-42405, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.474671

Soliton blockade in bidirectional microresonators

Author(s): Zhiwei Fan, Dmitry V. Skryabin
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 45/23, 2020, Page(s) 6446, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.409362

High-Q Si 3 N 4 microresonators based on a subtractive processing for Kerr nonlinear optics

Author(s): Zhichao Ye, Krishna Twayana, Peter A. Andrekson, Victor Torres-Company
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 27/24, 2019, Page(s) 35719, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.035719

Reconfigurable reflective arrayed waveguide grating using optimization algorithms

Author(s): Juan Fernández, Joan Felip, Bernardo Gargallo, José David Doménech, Daniel Pastor, Carlos Domínguez-Horna, Pascual Muñoz
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 28/21, 2020, Page(s) 31446, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.404267

Stability analysis of numerically exact time-periodic breathers in the Lugiato-Lefever equation: Discrete vs continuum

Author(s): Magnus Johansson, Valery E. Lobanov, Dmitry V. Skryabin
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 1/3, 2019, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.1.033196

32QAM WDM transmission at 12 Tbit/s using a quantum-dash mode-locked laser diode (QD-MLLD) with external-cavity feedback

Author(s): Juned N. Kemal, Pablo Marin-Palomo, Kamel Merghem, Guy Aubin, François Lelarge, Abderrahim Ramdane, Sebastian Randel, Wolfgang Freude, Christian Koos
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 28/16, 2020, Page(s) 23594, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.392007

Other (8)

Chaotic micro-comb based parallel ranging

Author(s): Anton Lukashchuk, Johann Riemensberger, Aleksandr Tusnin, Junqiu Liu, Tobias Kippenberg
Published in: 2021
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.10241

An on-chip III-V-semiconductor-on-silicon laser frequency comb for gas-phase molecular spectroscopy in real-time

Author(s): Van Gasse, Kasper; Chen, Zaijun; Vicentini, Edoardo; Huh, Jeonghyun; Poelman, Stijn; Wang, Zhechao; Roelkens, Gunther; Hänsch, Theodor W.; Kuyken, Bart; Picqué, Nathalie
Published in: Issue 1, 2020
Publisher: arvix.com

Dissipative structures in topological lattices of nonlinear optical resonators

Author(s): Aleksandr Tusnin, Alexey Tikan, Kenichi Komagata, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: 2021
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.11731

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

Author(s): Viacheslav Snigirev, Annina Riedhauser, Grigory Lihachev, Johann Riemensberger, Rui Ning Wang, Charles Moehl, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Guanhao Huang, Youri Popoff, Ute Drechsler, Daniele Caimi, Simon Hoenl, Junqiu Liu, Paul Seidler, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: 2021
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.02036

A heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride photonic platform

Author(s): Mikhail Churaev, Rui Ning Wang, Viacheslav Snigirev, Annina Riedhauser, Terence Blésin, Charles Möhl, Miles A. Anderson, Anat Siddharth, Youri Popoff, Daniele Caimi, Simon Hönl, Johann Riemensberger, Junqiu Liu, Paul Seidler, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: 2021
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.02018

Hybrid integrated mode-locked laser diodes with a silicon nitride extended cavity.

Author(s): Ewoud Vissers, Stijn Poelman, Camiel Op de Beeck, Kasper Van Gasse, Bart Kuyken
Published in: 2021
Publisher: arXiv:2102.13020v2 [physics.optics]

Tightly confining lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits and lasers

Author(s): Zihan Li, Rui Ning Wang, Grigorii Lihachev, Zelin Tan, Viacheslav Snigirev, Mikhail Churaev, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Anat Siddharth, Mohammad J. Bereyhi, Johann Riemensberger, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: 2022
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2208.05556

Dissipative solitons and switching waves in dispersion folded Kerr cavities

Author(s): Miles H. Anderson, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Johann Riemensberger, Rui Ning Wang, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: 2022
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.09957

Conference proceedings (8)

200 GBd 16QAM Signals Synthesized by an Actively Phase-Stabilized Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generator (OAWG)

Author(s): Henauer, Thomas; Sherifaj, Alban; Füllner, Christoph; Freude, Wolfgang; Randel, Sebastian; Zwick, Thomas; Koos, Christian
Published in: Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2022), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, Page(s) Art.-Nr.: M2I.2, ISBN 978-1-55752-466-9
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group (OSA)
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2022.m2i.2

Ultrabroadband second harmonic generation at telecom-wavelengths in lithium niobate waveguides

Author(s): Halvor R. Fergestad, Katia Gallo
Published in: OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF), 2020, Page(s) ITu4A.13, ISBN 978-1-943580-79-8
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/iprsn.2020.itu4a.13

III-V-on-silicon mode-locked lasers with 1-GHz line spacing for dual-comb spectroscopy

Author(s): K. Van Gasse, J. Huh, Z. Chen, S. Poelman, Z. Wang, G. Roelkens, T.W. Hansch, B. Kuyken, N. Picque
Published in: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2020, Page(s) SF1G.5, ISBN 978-1-943580-76-7
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2020.sf1g.5

320 GHz Analog-to-Digital Converter Exploiting Kerr Soliton Combs and Photonic-Electronic Spectral Stitching

Author(s): Fang, D.; Drayss, D.; Lihachev, G.; Marin-Palomo, P.; Peng, H.; Fullner, C.; Kuzmin, A.; Liu, J.; Wang, R.; Snigirev, V.; Lukashchuk, A.; Zhang, M.; Kharel, P.; Witzens, J.; Scheytt, C.; Freude, W.; Randel, S.; Kippenberg, T. J.; Koos, C.
Published in: 2021 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-3868-1
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc52684.2021.9606090

Slice-Less Optical Arbitrary Waveform Measurement (OAWM) in a Bandwidth of More Than 600 GHz

Author(s): Daniel Drayss, Dengyang Fang, Christoph Füllner, Grigorii Likhachev, Thomas Henauer, Yung Chen, Huanfa Peng, Pablo Marin-Palomo, Thomas Zwick, Wolfgang Freude, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Sebastian Randel, and Christian Koos
Published in: Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2022), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, Page(s) Art.-Nr.: M2I.1, ISBN 978-1-55752-466-9
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group (OSA)
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2022.m2i.1

Dissipative Kerr solitons at the edge state of the Su-Schrieffer—Heeger model

Author(s): A. K. Tusnin, A. M. Tikan, T. J. Kippenberg
Published in: 2021
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2015/1/012159

High-resolution dual-comb gas-phase spectroscopy with a mode-locked laser on a photonic chip

Author(s): Z. Chen, K. Van Gasse, E. Vicentini, J. Huh, S. Poelman, Z. Wang, G. Roelkens, T.W. Hänsch, B. Kuyken, and N. Picqué
Published in: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2020
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2020.jth4a.8

Dispersion engineering for Kerr frequency comb generation in gallium phosphide photonic crystal cavity resonators

Author(s): Alberto Nardi, Johann Riemensberger, Tobias J. Kippenberg, and Paul Seidler
Published in: Optica Advanced Photonics Congress 2022, Technical Digest Series, 2022, Page(s) NpTh2G.7
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/np.2022.npth2g.7