Jordan R. Stone

TL;DR: Any application of an optical-frequency source could benefit from the high-precision optical synthesis presented here, and leveraging high-volume semiconductor processing built around advanced materials could allow such low-cost, low-power and compact integrated-photonics devices to be widely used.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how to synthesize the absolute frequency of a lightwave signal, using integrated photonics to implement lasers, system interconnects, and nonlinear frequency comb generation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a semiconductor laser is stabilized to an optical transition in a microfabricated rubidium vapor cell, and a pair of interlocked Kerr-microresonator frequency combs provide fully coherent optical division of the clock laser to generate an electronic 22 GHz clock signal with a fractional frequency instability of one part in 1013.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate octave-spanning soliton frequency combs in Si3N4 microresonators, including the generation of a multisoliton state with a pump power near 40 mW and a single-soliton states with a power near 120 mW.

TL;DR: The dynamical response of dissipative Kerr solitons to changes in pump power and detuning and how thermal and nonlinear processes couple these parameters to the frequency-comb degrees of freedom are explored.