An optical frequency comb comprises a cluster of equally spaced,phase-locked spectral lines.Replacing these classical components with correlated quantum light gives rise to cluster quantum frequency combs,providing ab...An optical frequency comb comprises a cluster of equally spaced,phase-locked spectral lines.Replacing these classical components with correlated quantum light gives rise to cluster quantum frequency combs,providing abundant quantum resources for measurement-based quantum computation,and multi-user quantum networks.We propose and generate cluster quantum microcombs within an on-chip optical microresonator driven by multi-frequency lasers.Through resonantly enhanced four-wave mixing processes,continuous-variable cluster states with 60 qumodes are deterministically created.The graph structures can be programmed into one-and two-dimensional lattices by adjusting the configurations of the pump lines,which are confirmed inseparable based on the measured covariance matrices.Our work demonstrates the largest-scale cluster states with unprecedented raw squeezing levels from a photonic chip,offering a compact and scalable platform for computational and communicational tasks with quantum advantages.展开更多
Based on a semiconductor laser （SL） with incoherent optical feedback, a novel all-optical scheme for generating tunable and broadband microwave frequency combs （MFCs） is proposed and investigated numerically. The ...Based on a semiconductor laser （SL） with incoherent optical feedback, a novel all-optical scheme for generating tunable and broadband microwave frequency combs （MFCs） is proposed and investigated numerically. The results show that, under suitable operation parameters, the SL with incoherent optical feedback can be driven to operate at a regular pulsing state, and the generated MFCs have bandwidths broader than 40 GHz within a 10 dB amplitude variation. For a fixed bias current, the line spacing （or repetition frequency） of the MFCs can be easily tuned by varying the feedback delay time and the feedback strength, and the tuning range of the line spacing increases with the increase in the bias current. The linewidth of the MFCs is sensitive to the variation of the feedback delay time and the feedback strength, and a linewidth of tens of KHz can be achieved through finely adjusting the feedback delay time and the feedback strength. In addition, mappings of amplitude variation, repetition frequency, and linewidth of MFCs in the parameter space of the feedback delay time and the feedback strength are presented.展开更多
Based on the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation(NLSE) with damping, detuning, and driving terms describing the evolution of signals in a Kerr microresonator, we apply periodic nonlinear Fourier transform(NFT) to the study...Based on the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation(NLSE) with damping, detuning, and driving terms describing the evolution of signals in a Kerr microresonator, we apply periodic nonlinear Fourier transform(NFT) to the study of signals during the generation of the Kerr optical frequency combs(OFCs). We find that the signals in different states, including the Turing pattern, the chaos, the single soliton state, and the multi-solitons state, can be distinguished according to different distributions of the eigenvalue spectrum. Specially, the eigenvalue spectrum of the single soliton pulse is composed of a pair of conjugate symmetric discrete eigenvalues and the quasi-continuous eigenvalue spectrum with eye-like structure.Moreover, we have successfully demonstrated that the number of discrete eigenvalue pairs in the eigenvalue spectrum corresponds to the number of solitons formed in a round-trip time inside the Kerr microresonator. This work shows that some characteristics of the time-domain signal can be well reflected in the nonlinear domain.展开更多
Frequency combs[1, 2] consisting of equally-spaced frequencylines can be fully described by two frequencies, i.e., carrieroffset (fCEO) and repetition rate (frep). Once the two frequenciesare stabilized, the frequency...Frequency combs[1, 2] consisting of equally-spaced frequencylines can be fully described by two frequencies, i.e., carrieroffset (fCEO) and repetition rate (frep). Once the two frequenciesare stabilized, the frequency comb is well defined. Frequencycombs can be used for various applications, i.e., metrology,spectroscopy, timing, communications, absolute distancemeasurements, and so on, due to their two importantcharacteristics, i.e., stabilized frequency lines and ultra-shortoptical pulses (if the mode-locking is obtained) as shown inFig. 1.展开更多
The optical injection locking of semiconductor lasers to dual-frequency lasers is studied by numerical simulations.The beat-note signals can be effectively transformed to optical frequency combs due to the effective f...The optical injection locking of semiconductor lasers to dual-frequency lasers is studied by numerical simulations.The beat-note signals can be effectively transformed to optical frequency combs due to the effective four wave-mixing in the active semiconductor gain medium. The low-noise Gaussian-like pulse can be obtained by locking the relaxation oscillation and compensating the gain asymmetry. The simulations suggest that pulse trains of width below 30 ps and repetition rate in GHz frequency can be generated simply by the optical injection locking of semiconductor lasers. Since the optical injection locking can broaden the spectrum and amplify the optical power simultaneously, it can be a good initial stage for generating optical frequency combs from dual-frequency lasers by multi-stage of spectral broadening in nonlinear waveguides.展开更多
Optical frequency comb with evenly spaced lines over a broad bandwidth has revolutionized the fields of optical metrology and spectroscopy.Here,we propose a fast interleaved dual-comb spectroscopy with sub-femtometer-...Optical frequency comb with evenly spaced lines over a broad bandwidth has revolutionized the fields of optical metrology and spectroscopy.Here,we propose a fast interleaved dual-comb spectroscopy with sub-femtometer-resolution and absolute frequency,in which two electro-optic frequency combs are swept.Electrically-modulated stabilized laser enables ultrahigh resolution of 0.16 fm(or 20 k Hz in optical frequency)and single-shot measurement in 90 ms.Total 20 million points are recorded spanning 3.2 nm(or 400 GHz)bandwidth,corresponding to a spectral sampling rate of 2.5×10^(8)points/s under Nyquist-limitation.Besides,considering the trade-off between the measurement time and spectral resolution,a fast single-shot measurement is also realized in 1.6 ms with 8 fm(or 1 MHz)resolution.We demonstrate the 25-averaged result with 30.6 d B spectral measurement signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)by reducing the filter bandwidth in demodulation.The results show great prospect for precise measurement with flexibly fast refresh time,high spectral resolution,and high SNR.展开更多
We review recent work on broadband RF channelizers based on integrated optical frequency Kerr micro-combs combined with passive micro-ring resonator filters,with microcombs having channel spacings of 200 and 49 GHz.Th...We review recent work on broadband RF channelizers based on integrated optical frequency Kerr micro-combs combined with passive micro-ring resonator filters,with microcombs having channel spacings of 200 and 49 GHz.This approach to realizing RF channelizers offers reduced complexity,size,and potential cost for a wide range of applications to microwave signal detection.展开更多
Frequency combs show various applications in molecular fingerprinting,imaging,communications,and so on.In the terahertz frequency range,semiconductor-based quantum cascade lasers(QCLs)are ideal platforms for realizing...Frequency combs show various applications in molecular fingerprinting,imaging,communications,and so on.In the terahertz frequency range,semiconductor-based quantum cascade lasers(QCLs)are ideal platforms for realizing the frequency comb operation.Although self-started frequency comb operation can be obtained in free-running terahertz QCLs due to the four-wave mixing locking effects,resonant/off-resonant microwave injection,phase locking,and femtosecond laser based locking techniques have been widely used to broaden and stabilize terahertz QCL combs.These active locking methods indeed show significant effects on the frequency stabilization of terahertz QCL combs,but they simultaneously have drawbacks,such as introducing large phase noise and requiring complex optical coupling and/or electrical circuits.Here,we demonstrate Farey tree locking of terahertz QCL frequency combs under microwave injection.The frequency competition between the Farey fraction frequency and the cavity round-trip frequency results in the frequency locking of terahertz QCL combs,and the Farey fraction frequencies can be accurately anticipated based on the downward trend of the Farey tree hierarchy.Furthermore,dual-comb experimental results show that the phase noise of the dual-comb spectral lines is significantly reduced by employing the Farey tree locking method.These results pave the way to deploying compact and low phase noise terahertz frequency comb sources.展开更多
Optical frequency combs are indispensable links between the optical and microwave domains.Chip-scale integration promises compact,scalable,and power-efficient frequency comb sources,enabled by the resonantly-enhanced ...Optical frequency combs are indispensable links between the optical and microwave domains.Chip-scale integration promises compact,scalable,and power-efficient frequency comb sources,enabled by the resonantly-enhanced Kerr effect or the electro-optic effect.While combs utilizing the former can reach octave-spanning bandwidths,and combs based on the latter can feature microwave-rate spacings,achieving both features at the same time has been challenging.Here,we simultaneously leverage the strong Kerr and electro-optic effects on thin-film lithium niobate,where dissipative Kerr soliton generation is followed by electro-optic phase modulation,to realize an integrated frequency comb reference with 2,589 lines spaced by 29.308 GHz and spanning 75.9THz(588 nm).Further,we demonstrate electronic stabilization and control of the comb spacing,naturally facilitated by this approach.The broadband,microwave-rate frequency comb in our work overcomes the spacing-span tradeoff that exists in nonlinear integrated frequency comb sources,paving the way towards chip-scale solutions for next-generation laser spectroscopy,microwave and millimeter wave synthesis,as well as optical communications.展开更多
This paper presents a novel technique for low-power generation of frequency combs(FC)over a wide frequency range.It leverages modal interactions between electrical and mechanical resonators in electrostatic NEMS opera...This paper presents a novel technique for low-power generation of frequency combs(FC)over a wide frequency range.It leverages modal interactions between electrical and mechanical resonators in electrostatic NEMS operating in air to provide a simple architecture for FC generators.A biased voltage signal drives the electrical resonator at resonance which is set to match an integer submultiple of twice the mechanical resonator’s resonance.Experimental results demonstrate that the NEMS displacement exhibit more than 150 equidistant peaks in the case of a 2:1 modal interaction and more than 60 equidistant peaks in the case of a 1:1 modal interaction.In both cases,the Free Spectral Range(FSR)was equal to the mechanical resonance frequency.Comparison between the FCs generated by the 2:1 and 1:1 modal interactions demonstrate the superiority of the former in terms of bandwidth and stability.The superior phase coherence of the FC generated via the 2:1 modal interaction was demonstrated via time-domain analysis.Our technique has the flexibility to generate multiple frequency combs and to fine-tune their FSR depending on the number of mechanical modes accessible to and the order of the activated modal interaction.It can be integrated into portable devices and is well aligned with modern miniaturization technology.展开更多
We propose a novel automatic phase-matching method for generating optical frequency combs using cascaded electrooptic modulators.By analyzing the power changes of different spectral lines,our method enables real-time ...We propose a novel automatic phase-matching method for generating optical frequency combs using cascaded electrooptic modulators.By analyzing the power changes of different spectral lines,our method enables real-time monitoring and dynamic adjustment to achieve precise phase matching.Experiments have confirmed the fast phase matching and the adjustable spacing of a flat electro-optic frequency comb and its long-term stability.This method provides flexible and efficient light source solutions for optical communications,spectral analysis,and optical measurements.展开更多
The dissipative Kerr soliton(DKS)frequency comb exhibits broad and narrow-linewidth frequency modes,which make it suitable for quantum communication.However,a scalable quantum network based on multiple independent com...The dissipative Kerr soliton(DKS)frequency comb exhibits broad and narrow-linewidth frequency modes,which make it suitable for quantum communication.However,a scalable quantum network based on multiple independent combs is still a challenge due to fabrication-induced frequency mismatches.This limitation becomes critical in measurement-deviceindependent quantum key distribution,which requires high visibility of Hong–Ou–Mandel interference between multiple frequency channels.Here,we experimentally demonstrate two independent DKS combs with 10 spectrally aligned lines without any frequency locking system.The visibility for individual comb-line pairs reaches up to 46.72%±0.63%via precision frequency translation,establishing a foundation for deploying DKS combs in multi-user quantum networks.展开更多
Photonic microwave harmonic down-converters (PMHDCs) based on self-oscillation optical frequency combs (OFCs) are interesting because of their broad bandwidth compared with plain optoelectronic oscillators. In this pa...Photonic microwave harmonic down-converters (PMHDCs) based on self-oscillation optical frequency combs (OFCs) are interesting because of their broad bandwidth compared with plain optoelectronic oscillators. In this paper, a high-efficiency and flexible PMHDC is proposed and demonstrated. The properties of the OFC, such as the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR),bandwidth and free spectral range (FSR), and the influence of optical injection, are investigated. The broadband OFC provides a frequency tunable and high-quality local oscillation (LO), which guarantees flexible down-conversion for the radio frequency (RF) signal. The sideband selective amplification (SSA) effect not only improves the conversion efficiency but also promotes single-sideband modulation. The conversion range can reach 100 GHz. The 12–40 GHz RF signal can be downconverted to intermediate frequency (IF) signals with a high conversion efficiency of 14.9 dB. The fixed 40-GHz RF signal is flexibly down-converted to an IF signal with the frequency from 55.4 to 2129.4 MHz. The phase noise of an IF signal at a frequency offset of 10 kHz is the same as that of the input RF signal. The PMHDC shows great performance and will find applications in radio-over-fiber (RoF) networks, electronic warfare receivers, avionics, and wireless communication systems.展开更多
Electromagnetic waves carrying orbital angular momentum(OAM),namely OAM beams,are important in various fields including optics,communications,and quantum information.However,most current schemes can only generate sing...Electromagnetic waves carrying orbital angular momentum(OAM),namely OAM beams,are important in various fields including optics,communications,and quantum information.However,most current schemes can only generate single or several simple OAM modes.Multi-mode OAM beams are rarely seen.This paper proposes a scheme to design metasurfaces that can generate multiple polarization-multiplexed OAM modes with equal intervals and intensities(i.e.,OAM combs)working in the terahertz(THz)range.As a proof of concept,we first design a metasurface to generate a pair of polarization-multiplexed OAM combs with arbitrary mode numbers.Furthermore,another metasurface is proposed to realize a pair of polarization-multiplexed OAM combs with arbitrary locations and intervals in the OAM spectrum.Experimental results agree well with full-wave simulations,verifying a great performance of OAM combs generation.Our method may provide a new solution to designing high-capacity THz devices used in multi-mode communication systems.展开更多
The results of an optoelectronic system—frequency-shifted feedback(FSF)laser experimental examination are presented.The considered FSF laser is seeded only with optical amplifer spontaneous emission(ASE)and operates ...The results of an optoelectronic system—frequency-shifted feedback(FSF)laser experimental examination are presented.The considered FSF laser is seeded only with optical amplifer spontaneous emission(ASE)and operates in the mode-locked regime,whereby the output radiation is sequence of short pulses with a repetition rate determined by the delay time in its optical feedback circuit.In the frequency domain,the spectrum of such a pulse sequence is an optical frequency comb(OFC).These OFCs we call initial.We consider the possibility of tunable acousto-optic(AO)dual and quad-comb frequency spacing downconversion in the FSF laser seeded with ASE and operating in the mode-locked regime.The examined system applies a single frequency shifting loop with single AO tunable flter as the frequency shifter that is fed with several radio frequency signals simultaneously.The initial OFCs with frequency spacing of about 6.5 MHz may be obtained in the wide spectral range and their width,envelope shape and position in the optical spectrum may be tuned.The dual-combs are obtained with a pair of initial OFCs aroused by two various ultrasound waves in the acousto-optic tunable flter(AOTF).The dual-combs frequency spacing is determined by the frequency diference of the signals applied to the AOTF piezoelectric transducer and can be tuned simply.The quad-combs are obtained with three initial OFCs,forming a pair of dual-combs,appearing when three ultrasound frequencies feed the AOTF transducer.The quad-combs frequency spacing is defned by the diference between the frequency spacing of dual-combs.Quad-combs with more than 5000 spectral lines and tunable frequency spacing are observed.The successive frequency downconversion gives the possibility to reduce the OFC frequency spacing form several MHz for initial OFC to tens of kHz for quad-combs.展开更多
Chip-based frequency combs have attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the advantages of small size,integrability, low power consumption, and large re-frequency range. Continuous and deterministic gener...Chip-based frequency combs have attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the advantages of small size,integrability, low power consumption, and large re-frequency range. Continuous and deterministic generation of optical frequency combs is critical for the development of diverse applications. In this work, an integrated design of a computer-program-controlled optical frequency comb generation scheme is developed, whereby the optical frequency comb generation and monitoring units are housed inside an aluminum box. Through this improvement, an optical frequency comb with a free spectral range(FSR) of 100.3 GHz can be generated and maintained continuously for a duration of >48 h.It is varied that the control method is highly effective during 1000 startup tests. With statistical analysis, the startup probability and mean time of the single-soliton state is 100% and as short as 1.5 s, respectively. Besides, chaotic states with a startup probability of 100% and a mean time of 0.31 s are also generated with the same program. The self-injection-locked generation method is still less stable and shorter in duration, and it requires a different state for each generation, which is capable of generating the Kerr optical frequency comb more consistently and more rapidly.展开更多
The rapid development of optical frequency combs from their table-top origins towards chip-scale platforms has opened up exciting possibilities for comb functionalities outside laboratories.Enhanced nonlinear processe...The rapid development of optical frequency combs from their table-top origins towards chip-scale platforms has opened up exciting possibilities for comb functionalities outside laboratories.Enhanced nonlinear processes in microresonators have emerged as a mainstream comb-generating mechanism with compelling advantages in size,weight,and power consumption.The established understanding of gain and loss in nonlinear microresonators,along with recently developed ultralow-loss nonlinear photonic circuitry,has boosted the optical energy conversion efficiency of microresonator frequency comb(microcomb)devices from below a few percent to above 50%.This review summarizes the latest advances in novel photonic devices and pumping strategies that contribute to these milestones of microcomb efficiency.The resulting benefits for high-performance integration of comb applications are also discussed before summarizing the remaining challenges.展开更多
Dual-pumped microring-resonator-based optical frequency combs(OFCs) and their temporal characteristics are numerically investigated and experimentally explored. The calculation results obtained by solving the driven a...Dual-pumped microring-resonator-based optical frequency combs(OFCs) and their temporal characteristics are numerically investigated and experimentally explored. The calculation results obtained by solving the driven and damped nonlinear Schr?dinger equation indicate that an ultralow coupled pump power is required to excite the primary comb modes through a non-degenerate four-wave-mixing(FWM) process and, when the pump power is boosted, both the comb mode intensities and spectral bandwidths increase. At low pump powers, the field intensity profile exhibits a cosine variation manner with frequency equal to the separation of the two pumps, while a roll Turing pattern is formed resulting from the increased comb mode intensities and spectral bandwidths at high pump powers. Meanwhile, we found that the power difference between the two pump fields can be transferred to the newly generated comb modes, which are located on both sides of the pump modes, through a cascaded FWM process. Experimentally, the dual-pumped OFCs were realized by coupling two self-oscillating pump fields into a microring resonator. The numerically calculated comb spectrum is verified by generating an OFC with 2.0 THz mode spacing over 160 nm bandwidth. In addition, the formation of a roll Turing pattern at high pump powers is inferred from the measured autocorrelation trace of a 10 free spectral range(FSR) OFC. The experimental observations accord well with the numerical predictions. Due to their large and tunable mode spacing, robustness,and flexibility, the proposed dual-pumped OFCs could find potential applications in a wide range of fields,including arbitrary optical waveform generation, high-capacity optical communications, and signal-processing systems.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Plan of China(Grant No.2021ZD0301500)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Z210004,Z240007)+2 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(92150108,62222515,12125402,12174438)the High-performance Computing Platform of Peking Universitysupported by the Micro/nano Fabrication Laboratory of Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility(SECUF).
文摘An optical frequency comb comprises a cluster of equally spaced,phase-locked spectral lines.Replacing these classical components with correlated quantum light gives rise to cluster quantum frequency combs,providing abundant quantum resources for measurement-based quantum computation,and multi-user quantum networks.We propose and generate cluster quantum microcombs within an on-chip optical microresonator driven by multi-frequency lasers.Through resonantly enhanced four-wave mixing processes,continuous-variable cluster states with 60 qumodes are deterministically created.The graph structures can be programmed into one-and two-dimensional lattices by adjusting the configurations of the pump lines,which are confirmed inseparable based on the measured covariance matrices.Our work demonstrates the largest-scale cluster states with unprecedented raw squeezing levels from a photonic chip,offering a compact and scalable platform for computational and communicational tasks with quantum advantages.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61178011,11204248,61475127,and 61275116)the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing City,China(Grant Nos.2012jj B40011 and 2012jj A40012)the Open Fund of the State Key Lab of Millimeter Waves of China(Grant No.K201418)
文摘Based on a semiconductor laser （SL） with incoherent optical feedback, a novel all-optical scheme for generating tunable and broadband microwave frequency combs （MFCs） is proposed and investigated numerically. The results show that, under suitable operation parameters, the SL with incoherent optical feedback can be driven to operate at a regular pulsing state, and the generated MFCs have bandwidths broader than 40 GHz within a 10 dB amplitude variation. For a fixed bias current, the line spacing （or repetition frequency） of the MFCs can be easily tuned by varying the feedback delay time and the feedback strength, and the tuning range of the line spacing increases with the increase in the bias current. The linewidth of the MFCs is sensitive to the variation of the feedback delay time and the feedback strength, and a linewidth of tens of KHz can be achieved through finely adjusting the feedback delay time and the feedback strength. In addition, mappings of amplitude variation, repetition frequency, and linewidth of MFCs in the parameter space of the feedback delay time and the feedback strength are presented.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61475099 and 61922040)Program of State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices,China(Grant No.KF201701)the Key R&D Program of Guangdong Province,China(Grant No.2018B030325002)。
文摘Based on the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation(NLSE) with damping, detuning, and driving terms describing the evolution of signals in a Kerr microresonator, we apply periodic nonlinear Fourier transform(NFT) to the study of signals during the generation of the Kerr optical frequency combs(OFCs). We find that the signals in different states, including the Turing pattern, the chaos, the single soliton state, and the multi-solitons state, can be distinguished according to different distributions of the eigenvalue spectrum. Specially, the eigenvalue spectrum of the single soliton pulse is composed of a pair of conjugate symmetric discrete eigenvalues and the quasi-continuous eigenvalue spectrum with eye-like structure.Moreover, we have successfully demonstrated that the number of discrete eigenvalue pairs in the eigenvalue spectrum corresponds to the number of solitons formed in a round-trip time inside the Kerr microresonator. This work shows that some characteristics of the time-domain signal can be well reflected in the nonlinear domain.
基金supported by the "Hundred-Talent" Program of Chinese Academy of Sciencesthe National Natural Science Foundation of China(61875220,61575214,61404150,61405233,and 61704181)+1 种基金the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFF0106302 and 2017YFA0701005)Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology(17YF1430000)
文摘Frequency combs[1, 2] consisting of equally-spaced frequencylines can be fully described by two frequencies, i.e., carrieroffset (fCEO) and repetition rate (frep). Once the two frequenciesare stabilized, the frequency comb is well defined. Frequencycombs can be used for various applications, i.e., metrology,spectroscopy, timing, communications, absolute distancemeasurements, and so on, due to their two importantcharacteristics, i.e., stabilized frequency lines and ultra-shortoptical pulses (if the mode-locking is obtained) as shown inFig. 1.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62005215)。
文摘The optical injection locking of semiconductor lasers to dual-frequency lasers is studied by numerical simulations.The beat-note signals can be effectively transformed to optical frequency combs due to the effective four wave-mixing in the active semiconductor gain medium. The low-noise Gaussian-like pulse can be obtained by locking the relaxation oscillation and compensating the gain asymmetry. The simulations suggest that pulse trains of width below 30 ps and repetition rate in GHz frequency can be generated simply by the optical injection locking of semiconductor lasers. Since the optical injection locking can broaden the spectrum and amplify the optical power simultaneously, it can be a good initial stage for generating optical frequency combs from dual-frequency lasers by multi-stage of spectral broadening in nonlinear waveguides.
基金funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under Grant Nos.61775132,61735015,61620106015supported by the Major Key Project of Peng Cheng Laboratory(PCL)。
文摘Optical frequency comb with evenly spaced lines over a broad bandwidth has revolutionized the fields of optical metrology and spectroscopy.Here,we propose a fast interleaved dual-comb spectroscopy with sub-femtometer-resolution and absolute frequency,in which two electro-optic frequency combs are swept.Electrically-modulated stabilized laser enables ultrahigh resolution of 0.16 fm(or 20 k Hz in optical frequency)and single-shot measurement in 90 ms.Total 20 million points are recorded spanning 3.2 nm(or 400 GHz)bandwidth,corresponding to a spectral sampling rate of 2.5×10^(8)points/s under Nyquist-limitation.Besides,considering the trade-off between the measurement time and spectral resolution,a fast single-shot measurement is also realized in 1.6 ms with 8 fm(or 1 MHz)resolution.We demonstrate the 25-averaged result with 30.6 d B spectral measurement signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)by reducing the filter bandwidth in demodulation.The results show great prospect for precise measurement with flexibly fast refresh time,high spectral resolution,and high SNR.
文摘We review recent work on broadband RF channelizers based on integrated optical frequency Kerr micro-combs combined with passive micro-ring resonator filters,with microcombs having channel spacings of 200 and 49 GHz.This approach to realizing RF channelizers offers reduced complexity,size,and potential cost for a wide range of applications to microwave signal detection.
基金supported by the Innovation Program for Quantum Science and Technology(2023ZD0301000)the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(62325509)+2 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62235019,61875220,61927813,61991430,62035005,62105351,and 62305364)the“From 0 to 1”Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(ZDBS-LY-JSC009)the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-069).
文摘Frequency combs show various applications in molecular fingerprinting,imaging,communications,and so on.In the terahertz frequency range,semiconductor-based quantum cascade lasers(QCLs)are ideal platforms for realizing the frequency comb operation.Although self-started frequency comb operation can be obtained in free-running terahertz QCLs due to the four-wave mixing locking effects,resonant/off-resonant microwave injection,phase locking,and femtosecond laser based locking techniques have been widely used to broaden and stabilize terahertz QCL combs.These active locking methods indeed show significant effects on the frequency stabilization of terahertz QCL combs,but they simultaneously have drawbacks,such as introducing large phase noise and requiring complex optical coupling and/or electrical circuits.Here,we demonstrate Farey tree locking of terahertz QCL frequency combs under microwave injection.The frequency competition between the Farey fraction frequency and the cavity round-trip frequency results in the frequency locking of terahertz QCL combs,and the Farey fraction frequencies can be accurately anticipated based on the downward trend of the Farey tree hierarchy.Furthermore,dual-comb experimental results show that the phase noise of the dual-comb spectral lines is significantly reduced by employing the Farey tree locking method.These results pave the way to deploying compact and low phase noise terahertz frequency comb sources.
基金support by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(D23AP00251-00)Y.S.,Y.H.,and M.L.acknowledge support by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(HR001120C0137)+4 种基金Office of Naval Research(N00014-22-C-1041)National Science Foundation(OMA-2137723,OMA-2138068)Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(NRF-2022M3K4A1094782)support by the AWS Generation Q Fund at the Harvard Quantum Initiativesupported by the National Science Foundation under NSF award no.ECCS-2025158.
文摘Optical frequency combs are indispensable links between the optical and microwave domains.Chip-scale integration promises compact,scalable,and power-efficient frequency comb sources,enabled by the resonantly-enhanced Kerr effect or the electro-optic effect.While combs utilizing the former can reach octave-spanning bandwidths,and combs based on the latter can feature microwave-rate spacings,achieving both features at the same time has been challenging.Here,we simultaneously leverage the strong Kerr and electro-optic effects on thin-film lithium niobate,where dissipative Kerr soliton generation is followed by electro-optic phase modulation,to realize an integrated frequency comb reference with 2,589 lines spaced by 29.308 GHz and spanning 75.9THz(588 nm).Further,we demonstrate electronic stabilization and control of the comb spacing,naturally facilitated by this approach.The broadband,microwave-rate frequency comb in our work overcomes the spacing-span tradeoff that exists in nonlinear integrated frequency comb sources,paving the way towards chip-scale solutions for next-generation laser spectroscopy,microwave and millimeter wave synthesis,as well as optical communications.
基金K.M.acknowledges funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R.Evans Leaders Fund(Project 35552)Ontario Research Fund—Research Infrastructure(Project 35552),the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology(WIN-NRC seed grant),and a Mitacs Globalink Research Award.
文摘This paper presents a novel technique for low-power generation of frequency combs(FC)over a wide frequency range.It leverages modal interactions between electrical and mechanical resonators in electrostatic NEMS operating in air to provide a simple architecture for FC generators.A biased voltage signal drives the electrical resonator at resonance which is set to match an integer submultiple of twice the mechanical resonator’s resonance.Experimental results demonstrate that the NEMS displacement exhibit more than 150 equidistant peaks in the case of a 2:1 modal interaction and more than 60 equidistant peaks in the case of a 1:1 modal interaction.In both cases,the Free Spectral Range(FSR)was equal to the mechanical resonance frequency.Comparison between the FCs generated by the 2:1 and 1:1 modal interactions demonstrate the superiority of the former in terms of bandwidth and stability.The superior phase coherence of the FC generated via the 2:1 modal interaction was demonstrated via time-domain analysis.Our technique has the flexibility to generate multiple frequency combs and to fine-tune their FSR depending on the number of mechanical modes accessible to and the order of the activated modal interaction.It can be integrated into portable devices and is well aligned with modern miniaturization technology.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFB2800800)。
文摘We propose a novel automatic phase-matching method for generating optical frequency combs using cascaded electrooptic modulators.By analyzing the power changes of different spectral lines,our method enables real-time monitoring and dynamic adjustment to achieve precise phase matching.Experiments have confirmed the fast phase matching and the adjustable spacing of a flat electro-optic frequency comb and its long-term stability.This method provides flexible and efficient light source solutions for optical communications,spectral analysis,and optical measurements.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2022YFE0137000)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Nos.BK20240006 and BK20233001)+2 种基金the Leading-Edge Technology Program of Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation(No.BK20192001)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,and the Innovation Program for Quantum Science and Technology(Nos.2021ZD0300700 and 2021ZD0301500)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2024300324)。
文摘The dissipative Kerr soliton(DKS)frequency comb exhibits broad and narrow-linewidth frequency modes,which make it suitable for quantum communication.However,a scalable quantum network based on multiple independent combs is still a challenge due to fabrication-induced frequency mismatches.This limitation becomes critical in measurement-deviceindependent quantum key distribution,which requires high visibility of Hong–Ou–Mandel interference between multiple frequency channels.Here,we experimentally demonstrate two independent DKS combs with 10 spectrally aligned lines without any frequency locking system.The visibility for individual comb-line pairs reaches up to 46.72%±0.63%via precision frequency translation,establishing a foundation for deploying DKS combs in multi-user quantum networks.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.62071487,62201615,62301569,and 62371470)。
文摘Photonic microwave harmonic down-converters (PMHDCs) based on self-oscillation optical frequency combs (OFCs) are interesting because of their broad bandwidth compared with plain optoelectronic oscillators. In this paper, a high-efficiency and flexible PMHDC is proposed and demonstrated. The properties of the OFC, such as the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR),bandwidth and free spectral range (FSR), and the influence of optical injection, are investigated. The broadband OFC provides a frequency tunable and high-quality local oscillation (LO), which guarantees flexible down-conversion for the radio frequency (RF) signal. The sideband selective amplification (SSA) effect not only improves the conversion efficiency but also promotes single-sideband modulation. The conversion range can reach 100 GHz. The 12–40 GHz RF signal can be downconverted to intermediate frequency (IF) signals with a high conversion efficiency of 14.9 dB. The fixed 40-GHz RF signal is flexibly down-converted to an IF signal with the frequency from 55.4 to 2129.4 MHz. The phase noise of an IF signal at a frequency offset of 10 kHz is the same as that of the input RF signal. The PMHDC shows great performance and will find applications in radio-over-fiber (RoF) networks, electronic warfare receivers, avionics, and wireless communication systems.
基金support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2019YFA0210203)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62271011,No.61971013).
文摘Electromagnetic waves carrying orbital angular momentum(OAM),namely OAM beams,are important in various fields including optics,communications,and quantum information.However,most current schemes can only generate single or several simple OAM modes.Multi-mode OAM beams are rarely seen.This paper proposes a scheme to design metasurfaces that can generate multiple polarization-multiplexed OAM modes with equal intervals and intensities(i.e.,OAM combs)working in the terahertz(THz)range.As a proof of concept,we first design a metasurface to generate a pair of polarization-multiplexed OAM combs with arbitrary mode numbers.Furthermore,another metasurface is proposed to realize a pair of polarization-multiplexed OAM combs with arbitrary locations and intervals in the OAM spectrum.Experimental results agree well with full-wave simulations,verifying a great performance of OAM combs generation.Our method may provide a new solution to designing high-capacity THz devices used in multi-mode communication systems.
基金Russian Science Foundation.Sections 1,2,and 3.3 were supported by Grant 23-12-00057,Sects.3.1 and 3.2 were supported by Grant 20-12-00344.
文摘The results of an optoelectronic system—frequency-shifted feedback(FSF)laser experimental examination are presented.The considered FSF laser is seeded only with optical amplifer spontaneous emission(ASE)and operates in the mode-locked regime,whereby the output radiation is sequence of short pulses with a repetition rate determined by the delay time in its optical feedback circuit.In the frequency domain,the spectrum of such a pulse sequence is an optical frequency comb(OFC).These OFCs we call initial.We consider the possibility of tunable acousto-optic(AO)dual and quad-comb frequency spacing downconversion in the FSF laser seeded with ASE and operating in the mode-locked regime.The examined system applies a single frequency shifting loop with single AO tunable flter as the frequency shifter that is fed with several radio frequency signals simultaneously.The initial OFCs with frequency spacing of about 6.5 MHz may be obtained in the wide spectral range and their width,envelope shape and position in the optical spectrum may be tuned.The dual-combs are obtained with a pair of initial OFCs aroused by two various ultrasound waves in the acousto-optic tunable flter(AOTF).The dual-combs frequency spacing is determined by the frequency diference of the signals applied to the AOTF piezoelectric transducer and can be tuned simply.The quad-combs are obtained with three initial OFCs,forming a pair of dual-combs,appearing when three ultrasound frequencies feed the AOTF transducer.The quad-combs frequency spacing is defned by the diference between the frequency spacing of dual-combs.Quad-combs with more than 5000 spectral lines and tunable frequency spacing are observed.The successive frequency downconversion gives the possibility to reduce the OFC frequency spacing form several MHz for initial OFC to tens of kHz for quad-combs.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No.2020YFB2205804)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.62075240)。
文摘Chip-based frequency combs have attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the advantages of small size,integrability, low power consumption, and large re-frequency range. Continuous and deterministic generation of optical frequency combs is critical for the development of diverse applications. In this work, an integrated design of a computer-program-controlled optical frequency comb generation scheme is developed, whereby the optical frequency comb generation and monitoring units are housed inside an aluminum box. Through this improvement, an optical frequency comb with a free spectral range(FSR) of 100.3 GHz can be generated and maintained continuously for a duration of >48 h.It is varied that the control method is highly effective during 1000 startup tests. With statistical analysis, the startup probability and mean time of the single-soliton state is 100% and as short as 1.5 s, respectively. Besides, chaotic states with a startup probability of 100% and a mean time of 0.31 s are also generated with the same program. The self-injection-locked generation method is still less stable and shorter in duration, and it requires a different state for each generation, which is capable of generating the Kerr optical frequency comb more consistently and more rapidly.
基金supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Z210004)National Natural Science Foundation of China(92150108)+2 种基金supported by European Research Council(CoG GA 771410)Swedish Research Council(project 2020-00453)Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation(KAW 2018.0090).
文摘The rapid development of optical frequency combs from their table-top origins towards chip-scale platforms has opened up exciting possibilities for comb functionalities outside laboratories.Enhanced nonlinear processes in microresonators have emerged as a mainstream comb-generating mechanism with compelling advantages in size,weight,and power consumption.The established understanding of gain and loss in nonlinear microresonators,along with recently developed ultralow-loss nonlinear photonic circuitry,has boosted the optical energy conversion efficiency of microresonator frequency comb(microcomb)devices from below a few percent to above 50%.This review summarizes the latest advances in novel photonic devices and pumping strategies that contribute to these milestones of microcomb efficiency.The resulting benefits for high-performance integration of comb applications are also discussed before summarizing the remaining challenges.
基金Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(XDB 24030600)National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFF0200702)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(61690222,61308037,61635013)CASSAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams
文摘Dual-pumped microring-resonator-based optical frequency combs(OFCs) and their temporal characteristics are numerically investigated and experimentally explored. The calculation results obtained by solving the driven and damped nonlinear Schr?dinger equation indicate that an ultralow coupled pump power is required to excite the primary comb modes through a non-degenerate four-wave-mixing(FWM) process and, when the pump power is boosted, both the comb mode intensities and spectral bandwidths increase. At low pump powers, the field intensity profile exhibits a cosine variation manner with frequency equal to the separation of the two pumps, while a roll Turing pattern is formed resulting from the increased comb mode intensities and spectral bandwidths at high pump powers. Meanwhile, we found that the power difference between the two pump fields can be transferred to the newly generated comb modes, which are located on both sides of the pump modes, through a cascaded FWM process. Experimentally, the dual-pumped OFCs were realized by coupling two self-oscillating pump fields into a microring resonator. The numerically calculated comb spectrum is verified by generating an OFC with 2.0 THz mode spacing over 160 nm bandwidth. In addition, the formation of a roll Turing pattern at high pump powers is inferred from the measured autocorrelation trace of a 10 free spectral range(FSR) OFC. The experimental observations accord well with the numerical predictions. Due to their large and tunable mode spacing, robustness,and flexibility, the proposed dual-pumped OFCs could find potential applications in a wide range of fields,including arbitrary optical waveform generation, high-capacity optical communications, and signal-processing systems.
