Optical Frequency Combs

"Optical Frequency Combs: Trends in Sources and Applications" offers an overview of the recent advances on the physics, sources, and applications of optical frequency comb technology - one of the most exciting and fast developing research fields in photonics.

Auro Michele Perego received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Physics from Università degli Studi dell'Insubria (Como, Italy) and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Aston University (Birmingham, UK) in 2018. He is currently a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, where he leads his independent research group. His main research interests live at the interface between applied physics and photonic engineering and include optical frequency combs, the physics of modelocking and light pulses generation in lasers, parametric amplification, optical sensing, and the study of instabilities and solitons in nonlinear optical systems. Andrew Ellis received the B.Sc. degree in physics with a minor in mathematics from the University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., in 1987 and his Ph.D. degree from The University of Aston in Birmingham, U.K., in 1997 for his study on all optical networking beyond 10 Gbit/s. He previously worked for British Telecom Research investigating the use of optical amplifiers and advanced modulation formats in optical networks, the Corning Research Centre on optical component characterization and the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland. He interests include the evolution of core and metro networks. He is now Professor of Optical Communications at Aston University where he is also deputy director of the Institute of Photonics Technologies (AIPT). Prof. Ellis is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Introduction. Auro Michele Perego and Andrew D. Ellis Chapter 1: Optical frequency combs from supercontinuum generation in integrated photonics. Camille-Sophie Brès and Christian Lafforgue Chapter 2: Integrated lithium niobate optical frequency combs. Armandas Balcytis, Andy Boes, Thach Nguyen, -Guanghui Ren, Toby Mitchell and Arnan Mitchell Chapter 3: Soliton Frequency Combs in Microresonators. Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi and Pascal Del'Haye Chapter 4: Semiconductor Device based Optical Frequency Comb Generation. Prince M. Anandarajah and Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah Chapter 5: Quantum Cascade Laser frequency combs. Giacomo Scalari and Jérôme Faist Chapter 6: Fibre-based Optical Frequency Combs. Dennis Christian Kirsch, Igor Kudelin and Maria Chernysheva Chapter 7: Optical frequency combs in fibre resonators. Auro M. Perego, Matteo Conforti, Arnaud Mussot and Misha Sumetsky Chapter 8: All-fibre frequency agile triple-frequency comb light source. Eve-Line Bancel, Debanuj Chatterjee, Etienne Genier, Rosa Santagata, Matteo Conforti, Alexandre Kudlinski, Géraud Bouwmans, Olivier Vanvincq, Damien Labat and Arnaud Mussot Chapter 9: Spectroscopy with electro-optic dual frequency combs. Alexandre Parriaux, Kamal Hammani and Guy Millot Chapter 10: Optical Frequency Combs in the 2 -m Waveband for Dual Comb Spectroscopy. Eoin Russell and Fatima C. Garcia Gunning Chapter 11: Dual-Comb Ranging. Hollie Wright and Derryck T. Reid Chapter 12: Dual-comb microscopy. Takeshi Yasui, Eiji Hase, Katsuhiko Mizuno, Takeo Minamikawa and Hirotsugu Yamamoto Chapter 13: Electro-Optic Sampling-Based Timing and Synchronization with Optical Frequency Combs. Jungwon Kim and Changmin Ahn Chapter 14: Optical Frequency Combs Applications for Synchronous Transmission. Zichuan Zhou and Zhixin Liu Chapter 15: Integrated optical frequency combs and their applications - An industry perspective. Frank Smyth Chapter 16: Optical frequency combs for optical clocks. Marc Fischer, Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Mei, and Ronald Holzwarth