Octave Photonics

Following on Jizhao’s post, I am very excited that this paper has been published in Nature Photonics! We show that in photonic-crystal resonators (PhCRs) microcombs can be 100% efficient with all the input light converted into useful comb light.?Microcomb laser sources are widely expected to be a critical element in high-capacity future systems, such as data centers, advanced AI and quantum computing architectures, and high-speed signaling. Strict efficiency in terms of power consumption is a singular metric in high-capacity systems to reduce electric and water consumption. PhCRs, patented by NIST, are exceptionally versatile, since they offer universal phase-matching for nonlinear optics. The research for this Nature Photonics paper was very interesting because it taught us that just like in quantum optics the fundamentals of microcombs only depend on the photon extraction rate from the device and the physics within. PhCRs and microcombs are critical innovations achieved by NIST researchers, performing on the DARPA PIPES program, AFOSR ultrafast science program, and NIST programs.

Does it distress you that your Laserfun Online simulations are severed from each other? The latest version of our online calculator now allows your simulation outtie and innie to talk to each other! Feed the output from one simulation as input into following ones to build more complex nonlinear optics geometries. Scratch that itch for micro-dispersion refinement and find the perfect spectrum on our Laserfun Online webpage: https://lnkd.in/gXt-ncag

Check out the new Optica paper on greater-than-octave-spanning optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) led by our collaborators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)! In this work, nanophotonic tantala microresonators are patterned to convert a single continuous input laser into other colors across the visible and infrared. This is achieved by adding a periodic modulation to the resonator sidewalls, enabling efficient on-chip generation of wavelengths that are otherwise difficult to access with discrete lasers. Future integration with laser diodes and other photonic circuit elements will help reduce the size, weight, and power of specialty-wavelength laser sources! Read the open-access paper here: https://lnkd.in/eBXX62bY Grant Brodnik David Carlson Jennifer Black Scott Papp

We're live at Photonics West! Come stop by our booth and say hi. Just go down the escalator to the south hall and look to your left. Right next to the red balloons of the dog park is booth #409.

Taste the rainbow! Our friends at Vescent are making combs at all the colors.

Octave products have been sighted at the Menhir Photonics booth!

Woof woof! We're coming out with a new product soon called the Bias Adjustable Range Converter, aka the BARC! This will be a general-purpose analog voltage translator for interfacing between different electronics components. If your lab is anything like ours, you often run into a problems such as: needing to convert a -10 to 10 V signal into a 0 to 5 V signal (or vice versa), or needing to add an adjustable DC voltage offset to a triangular ramp, or needing to scale a voltage to maximize dynamic range on an ADC. There are lots of use cases, but unfortunately we couldn't find an existing product that did everything we wanted, so we've tried to make it instead. Fur real though, here are the highlights: High-speed: >3 MHz usable bandwidth with <30 deg phase roll-off Low-Noise: Compatible with narrow-linewidth laser stabilization It's analog baby: Continuously tunable gain and DC offset Adjustable Limits: Protect sensitive devices from overvoltage. Settable between -10 and 10 V. Easy-to-use: Visual range indicator, with clipping LEDs Compact: roughly the same footprint as a cell phone If you're interested and want to learn more, come check out a prototype next week at our Photonics West booth #409, or just stop by to heckle, that's fine too. Either way our booth is next to the conference 'dog park' so come to that area of the show floor to have a pawsitively grand time.

Florian Emaury brought one of his beautiful Menhir Photonics 400 MHz laser to our office today. We plugged it into one of our Comb Offset Stabilation Module (COSMO), connected the signal to one of the FPGA-based servos from Waxwing Instruments, and we had a CEO-stabilized comb in about 45 minutes! We’ll have the demo running at Photonics West. Come and check it out at the Menhir Photonics booth, #3205! (And you should visit the Octave Photonics booth (#409) too, where the lack of cool demos is compensated by the presence cool stickers and proximity to the “dog park”, which presumably contains cute dogs.) David Carlson, Zach Newman, Jean-Daniel Deschenes

Good news everyone! We're continuing to improve our online pulse propagation simulator! This week we added a feature to display the pulse duration as well as the duration of the transform-limited pulse. Have fun simulating, and let us know what features you want added next. https://lnkd.in/gXt-ncag

Congratulations to the teams from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Octave Photonics for winning the Technology Transfer Award at the 2024 Governor's Awards for High Impact Research at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on November 20, 2024! CO-LABS showed this spotlight video to our audience of over 200 guests from academia, research laboratories, economic development agenices and civic and technological leadership across Colorado. This Award is for research that resulted in a technological solution with widespread and/or significantly measurable societal utilization, with related impact on a global challenge or issue. See more about the Awards at https://lnkd.in/gXvM44Da Through pioneering microcomb research, the team of Drs. Jennifer Black, Travis Briles, David Carlson, Daniel Hickstein, Zach Newman, and Scott Papp has invented methods to shrink #laser frequency combs from large-scale laboratory systems to portable #microfabricated devices and has led the use of these #microcombs in numerous innovative applications. They have also pioneered the adoption of new materials with enhanced nonlinearity and improved fabrication capabilities. The team’s advances to the field are being adopted for applications in laser science, precision frequency measurement for optical #atomic clocks, #quantum sensing, and optical signal processing. Use cases continue to grow as the devices become smaller, less expensive, and more capable. The team’s work has also advanced the much broader and rapidly growing field of nonlinear nanophotonics, which is poised to revolutionize laser science and applications. Integrated photonic circuits can provide precise control of a laser’s optical spectrum in a nanofabricated package, allowing highly specialized laser systems to be constructed with unprecedented compactness and robustness for applications. The team is recognized for their work at the forefront of the competitive fields of microcombs and integrated photonics and the transfer of this highly applied work to industry. See more about the #NIST team at https://lnkd.in/g66S5dDC and Octave Photonics at https://lnkd.in/eucnAWFP https://lnkd.in/gKP9yeYn