• Advanced Photonics Nexus
  • Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036011 (2025)
Wenting Wang1,2,†, Wenzheng Liu1,*, Hao Liu1, Tristan Melton1..., Alwaleed Aldhafeeri1, Dong-Il Lee1, Jinghui Yang1, Abhinav Kumar Vinod1, Jinkang Lim1, Yoon-Soo Jang1, Heng Zhou3, Mingbin Yu4,5, Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo4,6, Dim-Lee Kwong4, Peter DeVore7, Jason Chou7, Ninghua Zhu8 and Chee Wei Wong1,*|Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1University of California Los Angeles, Fang Lu Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, United States
  • 2Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Optics and Photonics, Mesoscopic Optics and Advanced Instruments Laboratory, Beijing, China
  • 3University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Key Lab of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communication Networks, Chengdu, China
  • 4Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore
  • 5Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Shanghai Industrial Technology Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai, China
  • 6Advanced Micro Foundry, Singapore
  • 7Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States
  • 8Nankai University, Institute of Intelligent Photonics, Tianjin, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.APN.4.3.036011 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Wenting Wang, Wenzheng Liu, Hao Liu, Tristan Melton, Alwaleed Aldhafeeri, Dong-Il Lee, Jinghui Yang, Abhinav Kumar Vinod, Jinkang Lim, Yoon-Soo Jang, Heng Zhou, Mingbin Yu, Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo, Dim-Lee Kwong, Peter DeVore, Jason Chou, Ninghua Zhu, Chee Wei Wong, "Mapping ultrafast timing jitter in dispersion-managed 89 GHz frequency microcombs via self-heterodyne linear interferometry," Adv. Photon. Nexus 4, 036011 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Laser frequency microcombs provide a series of equidistant, coherent frequency markers across a broad spectrum, enabling advancements in laser spectroscopy, dense optical communications, precision distance metrology, and astronomy. Here, we design and fabricate silicon nitride, dispersion-managed microresonators that effectively suppress avoided-mode crossings and achieve close-to-zero averaged dispersion. Both the stochastic noise and mode-locking dynamics of the resonator are numerically and experimentally investigated. First, we experimentally demonstrate thermally stabilized microcomb formation in the microresonator across different mode-locked states, showing negligible center frequency shifts and a broad frequency bandwidth. Next, we characterize the femtosecond timing jitter of the microcombs, supported by precise metrology of the timing phase and relative intensity noise. For the single-soliton state, we report a relative intensity noise of -153.2 dB / Hz, close to the shot-noise limit, and a quantum-noise–limited timing jitter power spectral density of 0.4 as2 / Hz at a 100 kHz offset frequency, measured using a self-heterodyne linear interferometer. In addition, we achieve an integrated timing jitter of 1.7 fs ± 0.07 fs, measured from 10 kHz to 1 MHz. Measuring and understanding these fundamental noise parameters in high clock rate frequency microcombs is critical for advancing soliton physics and enabling new applications in precision metrology.
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    Wenting Wang, Wenzheng Liu, Hao Liu, Tristan Melton, Alwaleed Aldhafeeri, Dong-Il Lee, Jinghui Yang, Abhinav Kumar Vinod, Jinkang Lim, Yoon-Soo Jang, Heng Zhou, Mingbin Yu, Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo, Dim-Lee Kwong, Peter DeVore, Jason Chou, Ninghua Zhu, Chee Wei Wong, "Mapping ultrafast timing jitter in dispersion-managed 89 GHz frequency microcombs via self-heterodyne linear interferometry," Adv. Photon. Nexus 4, 036011 (2025)
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