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Ultralow-noise photonic microwave synthesis using a soliton microcomb-based transfer oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

The synthesis of ultralow-noise microwaves is of both scientific and technological relevance for timing, metrology, communications and radio-astronomy. Today, the lowest reported phase noise signals are obtained via optical frequency-division using mode-lo ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Dual comb generation in a monochromatically driven crystalline microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

Recent works on Kerr frequency combs demonstrated the possibility to simultaneously generate multiple soliton states with different group velocities in a single microresonator, which could be beneficial for many applications utilizing dual-comb systems. In ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Monolithic piezoelectric control of integrated soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Miles Henry Anderson, Tianyi Liu

We demonstrate piezoelectric actuators monolithically integrated on ultralow-loss Si3N4 waveguides. Varying the voltage applied on the actuator allows tuning the microresonator, and is used to initiate, switch, stabilize and tightly phase lock the single s ...

IEEE2020

Thermo-refractive noise in silicon nitride microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Nils Johan Engelsen

Thermodynamic noises limit the frequency stability of resonators. Here, we present the first complete characterization of thermo-refractive noise in Si3N4 microresonators. The measurements are in good agreement with theoretical analysis and FEM simulation ...

IEEE2019

Electrically Driven Ultra-compact Photonic Integrated Soliton Microcomb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Arslan Sajid Raja, John David Jost, Andrey Voloshin

We demonstrate a current-initiated soliton microcomb by injection-locking a multi-frequency laser diode to a chip-scale high-Q Si3N4 microresonator. This approach offers a pathway for integrated and ultra-compact microcomb source for high-volume applicatio ...

IEEE2019

Soliton dual frequency combs in crystalline microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

We present a novel compact dual-comb source based on a monolithic optical crystalline MgF2 multi-resonator stack. The coherent soliton combs generated in the two microresonators of the stack with the repetition rate of 12.1 GHz and difference of 1.62 MHz p ...

Optical Society of America2017

Microresonator Dual-Comb Coherent FMCW LiDAR

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Anton Lukashchuk

We introduce a novel architecture for parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR). Using dual soliton microcombs, we demonstrate a parallel distance measurement with 24 channels requiring only a single FMCW pump laser and cohe ...

IEEE2020

Multiplexing Soliton-Combs in Optical Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Arslan Sajid Raja, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

Nonlinear wave mixing in optical microresonators new perospects for compact optical frequency combs with many promising applications. We demonstrate simultaneous generation of multiple frequency combs from a single optical microresonator and a single conti ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Mitchell David Anderson, Tianyi Liu

We demonstrate piezoelectric actuators monolithically integrated on ultralow-loss Si3N4 waveguides. Varying the voltage applied on the actuator allows microresonator tuning, and to initiate, switch, stabilize and tightly phase lock the single soliton micro ...

IEEE2020

Dissipative Kerr solitons in photonic chip-based microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Arslan Sajid Raja, Miles Henry Anderson, Anton Lukashchuk, John David Jost, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

Since their discovery microresonator-based frequency combs have drawn a lot of interest due to their compact form factor and potential for integration. We report on the recent progress regarding dissipative Kerr solitons generated from photonic chip-based ...

IEEE2018

Intermode Breather Solitons in Optical Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Miles Henry Anderson, John David Jost, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

Dissipative solitons can be found in a variety of systems resulting from the double balance between dispersion and nonlinearity, as well as gain and loss. Recently, they have been observed to spontaneously form in Kerr nonlinear microresonators driven by a ...

American Physical Society2017

Heteronuclear Soliton Molecules in Optical Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Tobias Herr, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

We enter the multi-stability regime of an optical microresonator to generate heteronuclear soliton molecules. Ultrafast electro-optical sampling reveals the bound structures of such soliton molecules, despite comprising solitons of dissimilar amplitudes, d ...

IEEE2019

Polychromatic Cherenkov Radiation Induced Group Velocity Symmetry Breaking in Counterpropagating Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

High-order-dispersion-induced dispersive waves emitted by dissipative Kerr solitons are frequently observed in microresonator frequency comb generation. Also known as soliton Cherenkov radiation, this type of dispersive wave plays a critical role in comb s ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Electrically driven photonic integrated soliton microcomb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Arslan Sajid Raja, John David Jost, Andrey Voloshin

We demonstrate via self-injection locking an electrically driven soliton micro-comb by coupling a multi-frequency laser diode to a chip-scale high-Q Si3N4 microresonator. This approach offers a pathway for an integrated and ultra-compact microcomb source f ...

IEEE2019

Kerr Comb-based Transfer Oscillator for Ultralow Noise Photonic Microwave Synthesis

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

We perform optical frequency division of an ultra-stable laser by using a crystalline-based Kerr frequency comb as a transfer oscillator. We demonstrate absolute phase noise levels of -110 dBc/Hz at 200-Hz offset from a 14 GHz carrier. (C) 2019 The Author( ...

IEEE2019

Spatially-Multiplexed Solitons in Optical Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Arslan Sajid Raja

We simultaneously create stable solitons in up to three distinct mode families of a single crystalline MgF2 microresonator. The resulting Kerr combs are mutually coherent and have distinct repetition rates and are thus well suited for dual-comb application ...

IEEE2018

All-optical stabilization of a soliton frequency comb in a crystalline microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Victor Brasch, Tobias Herr, John David Jost, Caroline Marie Anne Lecaplain

We demonstrate the all-optical stabilization of a low-noise temporal soliton based microresonator based optical frequency comb in a crystalline resonator via a new technique to control the repetition rate. This is accomplished by thermally heating the micr ...

Optical Society of America2015

Quantum cascade laser-based Kerr frequency comb generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, John David Jost, Clément Christian Javerzac, Caroline Marie Anne Lecaplain

We report mid-infrared Kerr comb generation based on a quantum cascade laser pumping a crystalline microresonator. For the first time QCL light is coupled into a microresonator via a tapered chalcogenide fiber allowing mid-IR Kerr comb generation. ...

Ieee Computer Soc2016

Massively parallel coherent LiDAR using dissipative Kerr solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate an architecture for massively parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR) by transferring linear chirps of a single narrow linewidth laser onto all soliton comb teeth though generation of a dissipative Kerr soli ...

IEEE2020

Soliton dynamics in optical micro resonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Victor Brasch, John David Jost

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017