Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Aluminum nitride nanophotonics for beyond-octave soliton microcomb generation and self-referencing

  • Xianwen Liu,
  • Zheng Gong,
  • Alexander W. Bruch,
  • Joshua B. Surya,
  • Juanjuan Lu,
  • Hong X. Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25751-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Though octave soliton microcombs are attractive for on-chip metrology and optical clocks, limitations in existing materials lead to increased chip integration complexity. Here, the authors report access to octave soliton microcombs and self-referencing using aluminium nitride nanophotonic chips.