Publications by Miles Henry Anderson

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

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

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, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Miles Henry Anderson

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

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

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

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

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

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, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Miles Henry Anderson

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

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

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, Wenle Weng, Miles Henry Anderson, 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

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

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