Publications de Miles Henry Anderson

Octave-Spanning Kerr Frequency Comb in a Si3N4 Microresonator at Electronically Detectable Repetition Rate

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Zheru Qiu, Alisa Davydova

A key challenge in microresonator-based frequency combs has been achieving f-2f self-referencing, which requires a powerful, octave-spanning microcomb. Stable self-referenced combs have numerous applications including ultra-low-noise microwave generation a ...

IEEE2025

Integrated chirped photonic-crystal cavities in gallium phosphide for broadband soliton generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

Chirped mirrors have underpinned advances in ultra-fast lasers based on bulk optics but have yet to be fully exploited in integrated photonics, where they could provide a means to engineer otherwise unattainable dispersion profiles for a range of nonlinear ...

2024

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

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Viacheslav Snigirev

The availability of thin-film lithiumniobate on insulator (LNOI) and advances in processing have led to the emergence of fully integrated LiNbO3 electro-optic devices. Yet to date, LiNbO3 photonic integrated circuits have mostly been fabricated using non-s ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Generalised Kerr Microcomb Physics in Synchronously Driven Systems

Miles Henry Anderson

In this thesis, the generation of microcombs under complex, non-trivial, and/or higher-order cavity conditions is explored, both in theory & simulation, and in practical experimentation. Pulse-driving of microresonators is investigated for the generation ...

EPFL2023

Soliton Generation in a Gallium Phosphide Photonic-Crystal Fabry-Perot Microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Alberto Nardi, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

Ring resonators have proven to be extremely successful for generation of temporal dissipative Kerr solitons, but their dispersion engineering is limited. We present a photonic-crystal Fabry-Perot resonator with record-high quality factors in gallium phosph ...

IEEE2023

Stabilization of SiN Kerr Solitons for the calibration of astronomical spectrographs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Xinru Ji, Anat Siddharth

We demonstrate a stabilization scheme for dissipative Kerr solitons in SiN-resonators achieving high comb stability and long-term operation. Measuring 10Hz level absolute Kerr comb line stability (at 1 second) close to the pump, resulting in kHz level stab ...

Optical Society of America2023

Soliton Microcomb Generation in a Gallium Phosphide Photonic Crystal Cavity

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova

We report broadband bright soliton microcomb generation in the emerging platform gallium phosphide on insulator. We demonstrate a broadband dispersion-engineered photonic-crystal Fabry-Perot resonator with record-high quality factors. ...

Optical Society of America2023

Dissipative Solitons and Switching Waves in Dispersion-Modulated Kerr Cavities

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alisa Davydova

We theoretically and experimentally investigate the formation of dissipative coherent structures in Kerr nonlinear optical microresonators, whose spectrum encompasses an integrated dispersion that exceeds the cavity free-spectral range. We are able to acce ...

American Physical Society2023

Zero dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng, Alexey Tikan

Solitons are shape preserving waveforms that are ubiquitous across nonlinear dynamical systems from BEC to hydrodynamics, and fall into two separate classes: bright solitons existing in anomalous group velocity dispersion, and switching waves forming 'dark ...

Nature Research2022

Platicon microcomb generation using laser self-injection locking

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Yang Liu

The past decade has witnessed major advances in the development and system-level applications of photonic integrated microcombs, that are coherent, broadband optical frequency combs with repetition rates in the millimeter-wave to terahertz domain. Most of ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Coherent terahertz-to-microwave link using electro-optic-modulated Turing rolls

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Anat Siddharth

Arising from modulation instability, Turing rolls in optical Kerr microresonators have been used in the generation of optical frequency combs and the synthesis of microwave and terahertz frequencies. In this work, by applying electro-optic modulation on te ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Zero-dispersion solitons in microresonators with octave-spanning dispersive wave formation

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng

IEEE2021

Photonic chip-based resonant supercontinuum via pulse-driven Kerr microresonator solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng

Supercontinuum generation and soliton microcomb formation both represent key techniques for the formation of coherent, ultrabroad optical frequency combs, enabling the RF-to-optical link. Coherent supercontinuum generation typically relies on ultrashort pu ...

2021

Wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss silicon nitride nonlinear photonic circuits

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Nils Johan Engelsen, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk, Guanhao Huang, Jijun He, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Alexey Tikan

Recent advances in silicon nitride integrated photonics have achieved ultralow optical losses. Transferring this technology to standard commercial foundries, and merging it with silicon photonics via heterogeneous integration, will seed novel laser and qua ...

IEEE2020

Resonant Supercontinuum Generation in Normal and Anomalous Dispersion

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng

We demonstrate broadband resonant supercontinuum generation based on stable bright soliton formation in Si3N4 microresonators with either anomalous or normal dispersion. The frequency combs have an electronically detectable repetition rate of 28 GHz, and s ...

IEEE2020

Photonic chip-based resonant supercontinuum generation with intrinsic nonlinear filtering

Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng

We demonstrate broadband soliton-based resonant supercontinuum generation in a chip-based microresonator. We show that the soliton possesses an intrinsic ability to filter RF noise transfer from the input pulses, which can be further improved with asynchro ...

IEEE2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

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

High-speed actuation of laser frequency(1)is critical in applications using lasers and frequency combs(2,3), and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer among optical carriers. For example, high-bandwidth feedbac ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Carrier-Envelope Offset-Free Pulse Train by Difference-Frequency Generation from a Si3N4-Waveguide Supercontinuum Output

Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson

We present a novel approach to generate a frequency comb based on Difference Frequency Generation (DFG). The frequency components required for the DFG process are generated in a Si(3)N(4)waveguide. A mode-locked 200 MHz oscillator is amplified in an Erbium ...

IEEE2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of integrated soliton microcombs

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

Integrated gallium phosphide nonlinear photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Miles Henry Anderson

Gallium phosphide (GaP) is an indirect-bandgap semiconductor used widely in solid-state lighting. Despite numerous intriguing optical properties-including large chi ((2)) and chi ((3)) coefficients, a high refractive index (>3) and transparency from visibl ...

Nature Publishing Group2020