Real-time transition dynamics and stability of chipscale dispersion-managed frequency microcombs

Yongnan Li; Shu-Wei Huang; Bowen Li; Hao Liu; Jinghui Yang; Abhinav Kumar Vinod; Ke Wang; Mingbin Yu; Dim-Lee Kwong; Hui-Tian Wang; Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong; Chee Wei Wong

doi:10.1038/s41377-020-0290-3

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Real-time transition dynamics and stability of chipscale dispersion-managed frequency microcombs

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- Real-time transition dynamics and stability of chipscale dispersion-managed frequency microcombs
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 9, Issue 2, Pages: 244-253(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Fang Lu Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
  2.School of Physics and The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
  3.Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
  4.Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  5.Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore 117865, Singapore
- Author bio：
  
  Shu-Wei Huang (shuwei.huang@colorado.edu)
  Hao Liu (haoliu1991@ucla.edu)
  Chee Wei Wong (cheewei.wong@ucla.edu)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-020-0290-3
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- Published：2020，
  
  Published Online：03 April 2020，
  
  Received：30 August 2019，
  
  Revised：14 February 2020，
  
  Accepted：14 March 2020
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Li, Y. N. et al. Real-time transition dynamics and stability of chipscale dispersion-managed frequency microcombs. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 244-253 (2020).
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Li, Y. N. et al. Real-time transition dynamics and stability of chipscale dispersion-managed frequency microcombs. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 244-253 (2020). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-020-0290-3.

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Abstract

Femtosecond mode-locked laser frequency combs have served as the cornerstone in precision spectroscopy

all-optical atomic clocks

and measurements of ultrafast dynamics. Recently frequency microcombs based on nonlinear microresonators have been examined

exhibiting remarkable precision approaching that of laser frequency combs

on a solid-state chip-scale platform and from a fundamentally different physical origin. Despite recent successes

to date

the real-time dynamical origins and high-power stabilities of such frequency microcombs have not been fully addressed. Here

we unravel the transitional dynamics of frequency microcombs from chaotic background routes to femtosecond mode-locking in real time

enabled by our ultrafast temporal magnifier metrology and improved stability of dispersion-managed dissipative solitons. Through our dispersion-managed oscillator

we further report a stability zone that is more than an order-of-magnitude larger than its prior static homogeneous counterparts

providing a novel platform for understanding ultrafast dissipative dynamics and offering a new path towards high-power frequency microcombs.

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